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What is "Pendora's Box"? Could someone tell me please.....

2006-11-19 17:31:46 · 6 answers · asked by Nanthini 2 in Education & Reference Other - Education

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I'm assuming you are referring to "pandora's box." Pandora's box is a reference to a greek myth concerning Pandora, who was given a box with explicit instructions not to open it. Of course she was overcome by curiousity and took a peek. hidden inside were all the evils and vices in the world, all of which came flying out and spread out, polluting what had otherwise been a world of innocence and purity.

The version I like, though, has pandora realizing her mistake and managing to slam the lid down, retaining just one thing inside to help; hope.

the myth is a lot like the biblical story of the garden of eden. Also, Pandora's box can be used as an expression similar in meaning to "opening up a can of worms." Like you might say "his mistake opened up a pandora's box of troubles for the company." or something like that.

hope this helps!

2006-11-19 17:46:06 · answer #1 · answered by lalabee 5 · 0 0

couldn't find Pendora's Box
did you mean Pandora's Box?
According to Edith Hamilton in Mythology the source of all misfortune was Pandora's curiosity. "The gods presented her with a box into which each had put something harmful, and forbade her ever to open it. Then they sent her to Epimetheus, who took her gladly although Prometheus had warned him never to accept anything from Zeus. He took her, and afterward when that dangerous thing, a woman, was his, he understood how good his brother's advice had been. For Pandora, like all women, was possessed of a lively curiosity. She had to know what was in the box. One day she lifted the lid­and out flew plagues innumerable, sorrow and mischief for mankind. In terror Pandora clapped the lid down, but too late. One good thing, however, was there­Hope. It was the only good the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune."

2006-11-19 17:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by kimandchris2 5 · 0 0

Pandora was a girl in Greek Mythology, and was given a box by a god, and was told not to open it.

Eventually, however, she could not resist, and did open it. Inso doing, she released all the evils onto the world like greed, envy, hate, and related themes.

BUT, at the end of all these released evils, the box also unleashed HOPE, so it wasn't all bad.

2006-11-19 18:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jamie Taliaferro 1 · 0 0

Uhh... It's Pandora's Box.
She opened it and released evil into the world. Use a search engine.

2006-11-19 17:33:27 · answer #4 · answered by Artemiseos 4 · 0 0

I think you mean Pandora's Box?

2006-11-19 17:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by skyhigh 3 · 0 0

its pretend but it is supposed to be a box that holds choas and if ever open chaos will come about more so then it is right now.

2006-11-19 17:33:30 · answer #6 · answered by knowssignlanguage 6 · 0 1

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