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This 9 page paper examines the story of Pandora's Box, the Grecian Myth, and discusses how the themes have been used throughout literature and the arts in modern times. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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woman and what happened when the cat (or in this case, Pandora) became too curious. Yet Pandoras Box steps up a little more to tell the tale of how evil
made its way into the world. Yet for such a simple story, Pandoras Box, just like other catchphrases from Ancient Greece (such
as "Achilles Heel" and "Oedipus Complex") have permeated our culture today and are used frequently in a variety of ways. If, for example, someone talks about "opening a Pandoras Box,"
that person is referring to the possibility of letting something out that should be kept locked up and left alone. Many people felt that development of the Atom Bomb was
similar to that of opening Pandoras Box - the secrets of atomic fusion and heavy water and uranium revealed by scientists with the Manhattan Project were extraordinarily dangerous, and they
ended up causing annihilation and death. Other references and themes relating to Pandora and her box concern curiosity and its potentially dangerous
effects if steps are taken to satisfy it. And if bad things do happen in the world as a result of poor decisions that were made, it means that someone
has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descriptive term,
many artists, writers and composers have taken the theme of Pandora, and have expanded it to intertwine with other themes and ultimately, to provide a cautionary tale against giving in
to curiosity when the time is not appropriate. The story of Pandora The mission, moral and message of Pandoras Box were simple
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