In the Greek myth "Athene", Athene challenges a young girl, Arachne, to a weaving contest. Athene knows she will lose and perish, "Poor child. You are being destroyed by your own worth. Your talent has poisoned you with pride like the sting of a scorpion. So that which makes beauty brings death" (Evslin 11). This simile represents how full of her own pride Arachne is in Athene's perspective, how she is wasting her talent on a contest which she will lose to a goddess and be forced to death. Consequently, the sting of a scorpion is, more often than not, a fatal situation as this weaving match should seem to her. "Beauty brings death", beauty does not technically bring death, but pain, loneliness, and sorrow which then causes Arachne to hang herself after being conquered by Athene.
In the short story "Theseus", the Minotaur paralyzes him with a dark fright, "It filled him with a kind of horror that was beyond fear, as if he were wrestling a giant spider" (Evslin 167). The simile from this piece allows the reader to relate to Theseus' primal horror through the common fear of arachnids. Imagery inflicts terror with its graphic description in which the …show more content…
She "...enraged him with her suspicions. She was the queen of intriguers and always found it easy to outwit Zeus...He seized Hera and hung her in the sky" (Evslin 7). Irony is well represented in this recitation. Hera is the queen of marriage and family, however, she is believed to have the most, unsuccessful, suffering, and sorrow-filled, relationships in the entire world. She and her husband are constantly attempting to worsen each other's lives, Zeus with his infidelities and Hera, with her "suspicions." The two together are completely toxic and the furthest from happy. Hera is the goddess who cobbles these sorts of complications among other gods and common people, yet, she tolerates the horrific marriage she has molded
In the short story "Theseus", the Minotaur paralyzes him with a dark fright, "It filled him with a kind of horror that was beyond fear, as if he were wrestling a giant spider" (Evslin 167). The simile from this piece allows the reader to relate to Theseus' primal horror through the common fear of arachnids. Imagery inflicts terror with its graphic description in which the …show more content…
She "...enraged him with her suspicions. She was the queen of intriguers and always found it easy to outwit Zeus...He seized Hera and hung her in the sky" (Evslin 7). Irony is well represented in this recitation. Hera is the queen of marriage and family, however, she is believed to have the most, unsuccessful, suffering, and sorrow-filled, relationships in the entire world. She and her husband are constantly attempting to worsen each other's lives, Zeus with his infidelities and Hera, with her "suspicions." The two together are completely toxic and the furthest from happy. Hera is the goddess who cobbles these sorts of complications among other gods and common people, yet, she tolerates the horrific marriage she has molded