When you think of Persephone, think of when a coin is tossed and lands on its side. For a moment it is neither heads nor tails but you can see both. Persephone, (or Kore by her other name) is like this, in the fact that she is both life and death, both Spring and Winter. Her personality as innocent as the flowers she is picking changes to cold and callous as she is abducted by Hades and made to be Queen of the underworld through deceit and ill made deals. Jealousy plays a theme in Persephone’s story as it was Hades jealousy over the fact that both of his brothers had wives that lead a deal to be made with Zeus that Persephone would become Queen of the Underworld (Morford, Lenardon and Sham, 120). Though she was to be rescued and returned to
