The metamorphoses's lesson

During Antiquity, what could explain the mystery of Earth? No one could explain its creation, and reason of some animals and other elements formation. The author Ovid in the book Metamorphoses uses the God’s myth to explain how the world was created, and explain the meaning of life or the creation of certain animals or plants. Ovid also uses those myths to teach us lessons, which is the main meaning of his myths. All the myths have a very specific ending. Ovid wrote those myth to show us what we should achieve and not accomplish, he is like the master in Tao Te Ching, and his tying to teach us, to be better in what we are doing, by showing the punishments the character had to deal with. The three myths that teach us the most are the Minerva and Arachne myth, the Daedalus and Icarus myth and the myth of Thisbe and Pyramus. In the myth of Minerva and Arachne the lesson is that we should never be to confident and to be respectful to higher-class people. In the Daedalus and Icarus myth, Icarus had over excitement, it made him forget his father’s advices, and in the myth of Thisbe and Pyramus, the myth shows us that we should never take decision to quick and we should always think before acting. Those three myths have a lot in common, they all finish tragically, and the characters are punished or transformed to teach us the creation of some animals or elements.

In the Minerva and Arachne myth, Ovid teaches each a lesson by writing a story on how overconfidence can ruin us. He writes in book 6 about the god Minerva, the god of wisdom and art. In this book Minerva will have a weaving battle against Arachne because of her overconfidence. Arachne did not show any respect to the gods, Arachne even decided to have a contest against Minerva...

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...urvive with out the other, without their second half they was not point of living .

The book metamorphoses wrote by Ovid explain us how first the world was created, and how things that couldn’t be explain have a explanation, but the most important in this book are the lessons, each myth have their lesson, his lesson often refer, too much of something can be bad, like Arachne, there Is nothing wrong in being confident but over confidence is an inconvenient, and ruined her life also Ovid refers a lot in filial piety, we should always respect the Gods or superiors, often the characters in those myth die because they did not respect their parents or Gods .In conclusion this book was wrote to explain and teach us how the world and its element has been created, and that they are gods that we should respect or we will be punish ,and transform into an animal or element.