- Title
- Finding Pandora: a mythic response to the coronavirus
- Creator
- Haywood, Loraine
- Relation
- The Golden Line: A Magazine on English Literature Vol. 3, Issue 1, p. 1-6
- Publisher
- The Department of English Bhatter College
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Hesiod used the dragon Queen Tiamat as a foundation for his mythic Pandora. Tiamat belongs to a theogony in the supremacy of Patriarchal gods in a political contest for the throne. Hesiod transforms Pandora from the place of the goddess in the cultures of the ancient world, to her creation by the gods as punishment, and domesticated. She has a jar that is the knowledge of evil. These Western foundations form the attitudes toward women crystallised in Genesis, Eve is the fallen agent who wants knowledge of good and evil. In the ages of the world this nostalgia for a past Eden, or a golden age, existed in an era of the rise of patriarchal dominance. The mythic fall into mortality, disease, and toil came about by a woman. Two viruses are circulating in the world: neoliberal capitalism and COVID-19. How can both pandemics be overcome? If we can ever emerge from our caves perhaps it is an eco-curve that would be most beneficial. Returning to old formulas and prosperity in economic consumer salvation will not change human slavery to capitalist gods, encroachment and ecological destruction which lead to the further release of ancient evils.
- Subject
- Pandora; pandemic; Eden; nostalgia; Shi Zhengli; capitalism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1454422
- Identifier
- uon:44943
- Identifier
- ISSN:2395-1591
- Language
- eng
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