Power In Ovid's The Metamorphoses

In The Metamorphoses, Ovid’s book six tells us a story about Arachne who is the daughter of Idmon and an incredible weaver, challenged by the goddess Minerva. When Arachne wins the challenge it causes Minerva to strike back with violence. While reading Ovid’s stories, we recognize that he wrote stories based on the way the mind contemplates trauma. Ovid is interested in human awareness, and he helps us comprehend the emotions of the powerful and powerless. The gods express possessiveness, envy, and anger towards each other. At this time, in Ovid’s Roman World the gods have the power to manipulate and use their evil strategies. I will be concentrating on Arachne and Minerva; how their emotions take a big sorrow during the time when the powerful takes over the less powerful and punishes them abusively. I will deliberate primarily on the themes of emotions, power, of the gods to show the powerless.
Arachne and Minerva reveal the conflict between the powerful and the powerless. As we can

Even though she was innocent and didn’t really do anything besides getting the gods upset she was in danger, because of her irresponsible actions. Arachne, a mortal, generates tapestry that expresses a completely different story. Not only, but also when Arachne wins the battle and everyone recognizes her skills, this makes Minerva upset. That being acknowledged, when Minerva loses the battle since she had power on her side, Minerva takes advantage of Arachne through brutality. Minerva is so enraged by Arachne’s skills she begins to beat her. Furthermore, in this example, “a boxwood shuttle lay at hand-with that, three and four times struck Arachne’s forehead,” shows that the goddess Minerva doesn’t have sympathy or remorse when she acts out of fury which demonstrates the manipulation among the powerful and the