A Short Story Of 'The Death Of Persephone'

Poseidon is hit and goes down, so he thought. Out of nowhere the floor under Zeus crumbles into a blackhole of water under him. Poseidon from above him starts to smirk. Hades is missing the attention, he throws his mighty trident at his brother. Poseidon moves as swiftly and quickly as the wind but the trident was faster, and cuts his cheek. Poseidon, fures and hurt, he charges at Hades with his mighty trident.

After reaching the island, the time has come for him to reach his ultimate boon, to kill Medusa. With the help of Athena Perseus “cuts through her neck and… seized the head.” (Hamilton 204). With that one slice, Perseus is now known as a hero, and can even rescue his mother. The head also allows Perseus to get revenge on Polydectes, and bring Dictys to

Perseus’s story begins on an island ruled by a ruthless king named Polydectes. Dictys, the king’s brother, stumbles upon a young Perseus and the boy’s mother Danaë inside a great box along the shore. Dictys shelters the two and raises Perseus to be a peaceful, ordinary fisherman. Polydectes, however, wants the young boy deceased so Danaë would consider becoming queen. Perseus soon gains the call to adventure after Polydectes informs him of a killable gorgon. The king knows that no mere mortal can defeat even Medusa. Polydectes eventually coaxes Perseus into retrieving the head of Medusa as a present and thus the king’s plan falls into motion.

King Acrisius was king of Argos. He had an amazingly beautiful daughter, but he wished deeply for a son, so he prayed to the gods for them to give him a son. Apollo,the god of culture and prophecy, told him that he will never have a son in all his days and that the son of his daughter will slay him. Acrisius thinks of just killing his daughter,Danae, to prevent his prophecy, but fears of the punishment he will receive from the gods for this act, so he instead locks his daughter in an entirely bronze house and guards it closely. What he did not expect is for the king of the gods Zeus to come directly to his daughter and impregnate her. From this comes a son named Perseus. When Acrisius learns of his daughter's offspring, he puts both Perseus and Danae in a trunk and sets it off into the ocean. By luck or by the will of Zeus Perseus and Danae wash up onto a small island, where a kind hearted fisherman named Dictys takes in the two strangers. They live contently with Dictys until Dictys' brother, King Polydectes, fell in love with Danae. He decides to construe a plot to get rid of her son,Perseus, so that he can have her. The plan he comes is to convince Perseus to go and slay the woman-beast Medusa. He thinks this feat impossible by a mortal man, because any man who lays eyes upon her turns to stone. To aid him on his quest Hermes gives him a sword stronger than that of Medusa's scale. He also told him he would need equipment from the nymphs of the north, who's location was unknown by all except the Gray Women who are ray and live in gray.The three sisters share one eye between them all and

Another literary element that presents the story’s theme is the plot. According to Routledge (2013) the Hades is an ancient Greek that means a place where the wicked dead reside and are punished. The Hades

It was about an hour later that I decided to sit and curl up, figuring I was a safe enough distance from Hades, and wept harder still. It wasn’t until so deeply wounded by him that everything became clear. I now knew why I couldn’t breathe and my heart did funny things around him. I knew why he made me dizzy and why I craved his companionship so. When Hades said I was bound to him, he didn’t know right he was, fruit or no fruit. I was in love with him. It was during this revelation that I heard someone approach and I attempted to silence my cries.

Pluto being Hades saw Persephone and fell in love with her, and carried her off back to the Underworld.

In a critical analysis of the tales of Persephone and Susie Salmon, an account of what is to come when a maiden is stolen away from her family and into the underworld is uncovered. As they face their own extinction in the Hell that is their captors Heaven, a counteractive force is exerted by their parents who are thriving for redemption but will instead be fed by integral peace. An archetypal reading of the Rape of Persephone and The Lovely Bones reveals the value of acceptance of loss in creating a peaceful existence for the living and their familial wellbeing. The myth and the modernized story reveal the ideology that one must preserve peace in a time of turmoil in order to keep order within the world.

Hades was perplexed by such a rushed decision. Even though he failed in his attempts, he still loved Persephone so he kidnapped her. Thus, one can assume that Hades’s judgement was clouded by his grief, which is why he captured Persephone. Therefore, the audience can learn to not let one's emotions blind their judgement as Hades did, between what is right and what is wrong. This shows that one can look at Hades’s past failures and learn from them to better one’s self. Furthermore, folks often assume that Hades is as evil as the Biblical Satan himself, due to his status as god of the underworld. However, in truth Hades obtains no joys from the pain and torture of the dead, unlike Satan who is sadistic deity. It is just his job to control those who enters the underworld, which was a judgement that Zeus deemed him after the defeat of Cronus and the selection of the

In Greek mythology Hades is the god of the Underworld. He is part of the first olympians. He was in his father Cronus stomach until Zeus tricked him and freed his brothers and sisters. Once they were free they needed to wage war on Cronus, but they needed the backing and support from some other creatures to help fight the war. So the went to Tartarus the Greek equivalent of hell. When they were the set the Cyclopes free, in return the Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades all got magical items. Hades got a magical helmet that made him turn invisible. This would help in the war with Cronus and the Titans. Cronus was finally defeated when Hades got the jump on Cronus with his magic helmet and poseidon pinned him down with his trident. The Zeus gave the final blow with his lightning bolt to end it. (Parada)

Hades as the shadow, who represents the bad guy, and tries to defeat the hero and prevent him to achieve his goal, appears and massacred the soldiers. While he destroyed them, he also destroyed the fishing boat which led Perseus' family to death. Perseus tries to save his family, but with no success. That event took his life out of balance and led him to his journey, chasing Hades to avenge his family's death.

Duality occasionally results as the cause for suffering, while it is a product of the mind, it can often revolve around condemnation and the fear of judgement. Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Two Sisters of Persephone” illuminates the idea of the duality that exists within a woman’s personality. The title “Two Sisters of Persephone” suggests that there are two sisters being described in this poem, when in reality, Plath allures the reader by revealing that the two designated qualities actually deal with the two lives that Persephone endured as the Goddess of the Spring and the Queen of the Underworld. Plath conveys the concept of dualism through the purposeful use of structure, and depicting imagery to illustrate the contrasting lives of the renowned deity, Persephone.

Hades is the gloomy god of death. He rules over the underworld and everything under the ground, including the buried dead and everything that is buried with them. This included coins and other treasure.

Heroes have existed in society for centuries and have been presented in many forms. Whether they were personal idols, literary figures, or real people, heroes represent hope and victory against the evils of the world. People look for heroes in their everyday lives, or often, as characters in tales of extraordinary circumstances. Some of the most renowned literary heroes of all time come from Greek myths. Within these stories about heroic idols, it is common for many main plot points to overlap. Across different genres, locations, languages, and eras the progression of the hero’s journey remains relatively uniform. Generally, it contains three broad components: departure, initiation, and return. The tale of Perseus is a popular tale of an ostracized son of Zeus. Perseus and his mother Danae were nearly killed by Acrisius, Danae’s father, when he sent them out to sea in a chest. They were rescued by a kind fisherman, Dictys, and lived peacefully with him until his brother, Polydectes, decided he wanted Danae for a wife. He tricked Perseus into setting out on a venture to kill the deadly monster Medusa. These events essentially align with the progression of the hero’s journey. Therefore, throughout the myth of Perseus, the character’s quest follows the conventional pattern of the hero’s journey.

While in the woods with his soliders, Perseus discovers a sword in Olympus, as well as Zeus's sacred herd of Pegasi. Perseus refuses the offering of the sword and a Pegasus as assistance because Perseus does not wish to become a god. While, Calibos then tries to kill Perseus, Draco cuts off his hand, but Calibos' blood transforms into giant scorpions, which attack Perseus and kill all of his soliders, except for Draco, Solon, Eusebios and Ixas.