Ovid the Metamorphoses

Joey c. The Metamorphoses Why Jupiters feelings that hu populaces ar satanic is misled and hypocritical. And I reckon them that ar good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad. ? William Faulkner. Faulkners ideology is prevalent in the story The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, as the poet tells of the god Jupiter destroying all homophile kind (except for Deucalion and Pyrrha) beca hold of the exploits of one, Lycaon. Ovid describes Jupiters remainder as an effort to protect all the gods who do not live in the heavens. However, Jupiters actions are not justified in some(prenominal) way presented in the book.In the story there are multiple cases where Jupiter and an early(a)(prenominal) gods cause d displeasure and torment on the lower class of gods. Examples of rape, intervention of trus 2rthy dearest, and gods being killed, forever changed, and cast show up, are all reoccurring events that occur byout The Metamorphoses. This concludes that, with the demise of humanit y, Jupiter exemplifies characteristics of ignorance and hypocrisy by not considering the good and well being of other reality, harming the very gods he preparation out to protect, and ignoring the other gods wrong doings, that were more detrimental than any human ever had the strength to do.Jupiter believes that humans are all evil, however he took this generalization off of one situation and failed to consider any other possibilities. By this generalization, Jupiter has misled information and a bias heart going into his termination to flood the world. Jupiter, during an historic period of hardship and nothing sacred, went to see a human named Lycaon. During his visit Jupiter was treated with disrespect and was even move to be murdered by Lycaon. at first Lycaon mocked their piety He planned to take me, deluge with sleep, and murder me as I lay unawares. (The Metamorphoses al-Quran 1, 308-313).So outraged, Jupiter set out to destroy humanity with a flood. K Balsley, whose article about The Metamorphoses is published in the University Of California Press, believes that lots of Jupiters intention was anger based and that led Jupiter to his misjudgment. Jupiter is too overcome with anger, too quick to punish and too abusive of his potence as king of the gods to provide an unbiased version of the truth (Balsley). Jupiters anger clouded his forefront from seeing the good that others might have and that Lycaons actions are the reason why Jupiter flooded the world, not by mankinds evil.With the flood, two people survived, Deucalion and Pyrrha. These two were examples of the honorable and just men and women that Jupiter neglect to consider as he tore apart all human kind. Jupiter realized the world was now thoroughly inundated, and observed only a single man and woman left out of the many thousands there had been, and that they both(prenominal) were blameless and devout (The Metamorphoses Book 1, 447-451). These two individuals proved that Jupiter was t oo quick to action in his decision and made a major mistake in believing all man kind is evil.These two major parts of The Metamorphoses show Jupiters action as ignorant, provided it is also Jupiters hypocrisy seen through his own wrong doings which presents the flaws of Jupiters justification on the flood. A major justification of why Jupiter serve out humanity is to protect the gods that lived on the earth, however this is a hypocritical desire as there are multiple cases in The Metamorphoses where he caused the earth dwelling gods torment. In book 2 of The Metamorphoses, Jupiter seeks out Callisto and rapes her. s she began recounting the days hunt, (Jupiter) interrupted her with an embrace that clearly showed his criminal intent (The Metamorphoses Book 2, 595-597). By successfully raping Callisto, Jupiter caused her harm which was the very thing he wanted to protect them from. His lust is unbeatable in the book as he is a powerful god and he breaks both his wife, Juno, and his others in his sexual acts. In book three, his wife is so furious at the lust compulsive Jupiter that she persuade one of his lovers, Semele, to make Jupiter make love with her using all of his power. (Semele) could not bear such ethereal excitement, burst into flames and was incinerated by Joves gift. Her child was torn out of her womb unfinished (The Metamorphoses Book 3, 497-400). Because of Jupiters actions both Semele and his own unborn son are killed. His lust drove Juno to intentionally hurt both Semele and Jupiter because she knew that by making love to Semele, it would kill her and the unborn child. This shows that he fails to protect the gods, and in a very hypocritical action, e actually did more damage to the gods than any human ever did. The evil of Jupiters actions are ironic because his punishment of all humanity is a result of the cruelty and sinning of humans that Jupiter saw. Through Jupiters faults it is clear that his destruction of mankind was an act of hypocrisy, however it is also the actions of other gods that make Jupiters reasons for the flood seem foolish. The gods in the story have powers that even the greatest of human abilities cannot compare to, and with evil intentions they can cause much more damage too.The gods actions in The Metamorphoses hurt many earth dwelling gods and prove that Jupiter has no justification for the flood if the other gods cant even act decently. In book 14, Glaucus asks Circe to help him get his love, Scylla. However, Circe was in love with Glaucus so she turned Scylla into a Monster. Her lover Glaucus wept at this and fled from having any more to do with Circe (Scylla) carried off Ulysses man as plunder (The Metamorphoses Book 14, 96-102). As a monster she killed many men until she was finally transform again.This turn of events shows that Circes selfish and evil heart that not only destroyed the love of Glaucus but also killed many innocent men, and morphed Scylla (who had been blameless throug hout the story) into a monster. Evil is seen through the gods and they have much greater power to act on it. This proses a greater threat to the gods that any human could have. The power the gods have come with major responsibilities, however it is prevalent throughout the poem that the gods use these powers in selfish ways. For example, when cupid shoots a love arrow at Apollo and an arrow to reject his love at Daphne.He does this as an act of retaliation of Apollos rudeness toward him. This action caused Apollo to plan of attack to rape Daphne, even if the attempt fails as Daphnes father turns her into a tree before anything happens. One is in love now, and the other one wont hear of it (The Metamorphoses Book 1, 657-658). This not only causes Apollo to be love driven but for Daphne to never want love, which turns the situation into a rape scene. Cupids enormous amount of pridefulness caused multiple gods emotional harm and displays that Jupiter misjudged the negative effect the gods have on distributively other.The good and the wicked are punished by Jupiter in this story. It is shown throughout the story of examples of ignorance and hypocrisy created by the flood on Jupiters behalf. Jupiter shows these traits by not considering the good people effected by the flood, harming the gods who he believed he would be protecting by the wipe out of humanity, and by ignoring the evil actions the gods. Jupiter has no justification of the destruction of humanity and his actions were unjust, hypocritical, and ignorant.