Proserpina And The Pomegranate Seedds Summary

King Pluto goes and tends his daily routine and when he leaves Proserpina starts plotting ways of escaping while she’s completes King Pluto's chores she scheming escape plans and the perfect times to execute her escape.

“…dragged from the house on his knees. His face was bloody and when he tried to speak he cried with pain.”

Without having Moira there with her Offred begins to become slightly more rebellious. Knowing the Handmaids are not allowed to discuss each other, Offred pursues to ask Aunt Lydia if she knows where Moira is. Through this action does Offred also start to look into the rebellious attitudes of her mother.

This shows that the Earth goddess was a ‘force to be reckoned with the Ibo’s eyes. Most of their life depended on pleasing her. If they didn’t, it had terrible consequences.

Her fellow sojourners had at first been leery of the pretty blonde human's odd companion, but by the time they were halfway to Meldopolis they had all become at ease with her hairy protector, as he had with them. Her parents had been dead-set against her plans to become an at-arms and Sir Jack, the lead knight in Minos, told her since she had no training whatsoever, she would have to graduate from Sato's training academy before he would even consider her for an at-arms. Her aunt, after much cajoling and outright begging on her part, had arranged for her to travel with the traders as far as Meldopolis, after that she was on her own. So far the journey had been uneventful and the girl was nearly bored to death, she wished something would happen to relieve the tedium of her travels. Even her hairy comrade, normally a constant source of amusement, had become listless and disinterested, his constant sighs of discontent only made things all the more unbearable. Movement in the sky above caught her eye, but it was only Cendi returning from her latest reconnaissance mission, she was flying faster than usual and screeched a warning as she came in for a landing beside

Ceres returned home after looking for her lost daughter, Proserpina. The grieving mother had tears in her eyes as her hands and knees trembled with worry. Ceres sat down on her bed crying away at the sadness that plagued her mind, she bared the thought of a past event that involved a daughter before Proserpina, her name was Petunia.

In the poem “Persephone, Falling,” Rita Dove portrays the angst of a protective mother who ultimately fails to guard her most prized possession: her daughter. The poems within Dove’s Mother Love illustrate the often strained relationship between mother and daughter through the mythological tale of Demeter and Persephone. While some interpret the poem as delineation of a specific tragedy, it also embodies the modern mother and daughter relationship that struggles to conform to sexism. Specifically, “Persephone, Falling” delineates the capture of Persephone and questions who should identify as the culprit, exemplifying a warning from a present mother to daughter. Within “Persephone, Falling,” Dove details the struggles of motherhood

Her demeanor suddenly changes. He makes her feel intellectually and physically stimulated. Her feminine sexuality awakens. She turns the conversation of the chrysanthemums into something sexual. “When the night is dark-why, the stars are sharp-pointed, and there’s quiet. Why, you rise up and up! Every pointed star gets driven into your body. It’s like that. Hot and sharp and lovely” (444). She completely surrenders herself to him as manifested by her kneeling before him “like a fawning dog” as she hands him the chrysanthemum shoots. But despite all that, the traveler holds no interest in her or her flowers. This symbolizes society’s rejection of women in the workforce no matter their talents.

Mother and daughter were finally reunited. Ceres sensing that something was wrong questioned her daughter. Finally Proserpina admitted to being trick in to eating the food of the underworld. Demeter again was distraught because she know to eat the food of the underworld means that person must return to the underworld. Jupiter powerless to do anything decreed that Proserpina spend 1/3 of the year in the underworld with her new husband and the other 2/3 she was allowed to return to earth or Olympus. She would now be known as the goddess of the underworld. With this compromise Ceres restore to order the growing of crops and put an end to the famine and starvation. From the union of Proserpina and Pluto came Plutus the god of wealth.

Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres, was panicky. Despite the fact that she was clearly told by her mother to not go far into the forest, she went against her mother’s wishes and went exploring anyway. Proserpina was trembling with fear, her hands trembling like an anxious boy trying to go to sleep on Christmas Eve. She was running and tumbling over branches and tree roots until all of a sudden, she finds herself locking her eyes onto a beautiful and enticing little plant. She decided to uproot it from the ground and take it back to her mother. Proserpina was unaware that in uprooting the plant from the ground, she would be causing an opening that would lead to Pluto, the God of the underworld, and his castle. Pluto tried enticing her to him, but once he sensed her rejection and lack of cooperation he

Proserpina followed the spirit through the palace and went to the throne room at the heart of the palace. Her husband stood regally on his dais and leered down at her as she approaches the steps the way he did every time she was summoned. Breathing deep through her nose, she performed the ridiculous roman ritual he demanded

A long time ago, in ancient Greece, there once was a beautiful, young goddess that tended the crops and for the farmers that owned the fields. This goddess’s name was Ceres. Now Ceres, goddess of the crop, had a glorious daughter that ruled over the season of spring in the time both of these goddesses lived there was spring all year round. Plant life prospered and fruit and grain never stopped growing. As Proserpina walked flowers sprang up where her feet touched the ground and the sun shined brighter when she was awake.

Early this morning, I woke up in my beautiful bedchamber well-rested and ready to begin my day. Last night I had the strangest dream. My best friend, Dymas, was in it and she told me that I should wash my family’s soiled clothing today. It would my bring parents so much joy, and I would never wish to disappoint them. I am a Phaeacian princess for goodness sake, I should always be looking my best and not in soiled linens! So, I rose at dawn, ready for my trip to the river. My caring father lent me a beautiful mule cart to take down to the river pools. Which was where I began washing all of our dirty clothes. Of course I had to travel with my maids, for company and safety. We packed all of the soiled linen, along with olive oil for bathing, a snack, and some wine for a treat afterwards.

“Rosaura too wanted to be rich of course. If one day she managed to reside in a beautiful palace, would her mother stop loving her? She felt very sad. She wanted to go to that party more than anything else in the world.”

Her Mother Ceres, knowing Proserpina very well, and how naive and curious she is. Mother Ceres after a while of thought and getting tired of Proserpina’s begging, very hesitantly agrees to let Proserpina go to the mountainside. Right before Proserpina left to the mountainside, Mother Ceres warns her “The gnomes are good creatures, and they will protect you! Remember though not to stray away from them and leave the mountainside, and go wandering in the desert by yourself.” As usual, after Proserpina visited the gnomes and waited for them to fall asleep, she secretly went out to do what her Mother Ceres precisely told her not to; she went out into the desert.