Why was keeping Hope trapped in Pandoras Box considered a good thing?
While the Evils were sealed in the box, humanity didn’t know of them. When Pandora opens the box and releases them, humanity learns about Evil pretty damned quick. This in mind, wouldn’t you want Hope to be freed as well? It’s for this reason that this troper prefers a version of the myth that says the last thing in the box was Despair, which would have prevented people from having hope if it were released. • Hope is kept trapped in the box? Which version are you reading? I heard that Pandora trapped it and then it started complaining and she let it out. • Now you say that I’m not sure it was trapped, but every reference to the myth I’ve ever seen except the Despair one says that Hope was the last remaining thing in the box. Which still makes no sense as why would Hope be contained within a Can of Sealed Evils? I’ve never heard of the Hope complaining version before. • In the original telling by Hesiod (the important part here being that he was an arch-misogynist), Pandora was practica
