Comparing Evil In Creation And Mythology By Edith Hamilton

In the Hebrew Story of "Creation and the Fall of Man- Genesis 1-3," and book "Mythology," by Edith Hamilton, both mentions on how evil came into this world. They may come from two different religion beliefs; however they both tell the basic idea of who was responsible for evil but the plot is changed.
There are many similarities between Edith and the Hebrew bible’s story. For instance, in the Hebrew story they have a woman named Eve and in Hamilton, it’s Pandora. They are the first women to be created and serve a purpose to be alive. Although, the two served a different purpose as to why they were alive, they were both a gift to man to accompany them. Furthermore, in the bible it mentioned, ‘The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to

How evil was entered into the worlds was that in Hamilton’s book, it came from a box while evil entered when Eve took a bite from the forbidden fruit. Moreover, Eve was intentionally made to be good unlike Pandora who was created to bring misfortune upon men. However, their attributes were different from one another, for the serpent said to Eve, ‘“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. ‘“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil,”’ (NIV, Gen. 3) which Eve blindly took his word for it, falling for his trick. Pandora, on the other hand, was full of curiosity leading her to break the rule Zeus had warned her about and opened the evil box. Other than the women, the Lord God in the bible was the creator of man and women, but in Hamilton Prometheus is the creator of man and Zeus had the idea to create a mortal woman. Also, hope was trapped in the box forever leading for mankind to lack optimism, but in the bible hope was never trapped for it was there to aid mankind. Hence, evil came into the world in many different ways and purposes.

To sum it up, both stories were written from a diverse culture which leads to the beliefs in ancient times to be contrast. Both had the same idea of having reasonable beliefs of how the world came to be, however based on who wrote the story will have variety of events. Such as gods creating what, the purpose why things happened, the people doing it intentionally and not and so forth. Overall, the creation of mankind all started from a great ruler who slowly progressed their way into making earth from good to its