Eve and Pandora

Historically, women have been viewed as the downfall of mankind. Temptation, lust, and vanity are the detriments supposedly beset by the first woman. Whether Eve or Pandora came first is irrelevant. They will be remembered as the ones responsible for ruining man and mankind forever. However, both stories should be explored to determine if the myths hold some truth or if it just the result of a sexist storyteller in a male dominated society during …

…unrecognized any longer. Personally, I feel both stories are exaggerated and misconstrued. As fiction they serve as functional building blocks from which all women should learn and grow. It is a shame we can not travel back in time and witness these accounts for ourselves and derive our own ideas from them. If we could, I doubt these fables would hold up to the fantastical and amazing stories with which we see them as today.