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Minerva Quotes Analysis

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I do not think that Minerva treated Arachne fairly. In this quote from the text it states that Minerva was very upset that Arachne won the contest "Minerva tore from the loom/That gallery of divine indiscretions/And ripped it to rags." (201-203) Minerva was cruel to Arachne. She made Arachne very upset that she just wanted to die as you can see in this quote "With her boxwood shuttle/One blow between the eyes, then another,/Then a third, and a fourth. /Arachne staggered away groaning with indignation./She refused to live." (206-210) Arachne was turned into a creature with a terrible description. Her head became as small as a poppy's seed. All of her hair, eyes, ears, and nostrals fell off or disappeared. In the text it says "She retains/Only her slender skilful fingers/For legs. And so for ever/She hangs from the …show more content…

Since the begigning Arachne was rude and very outwardly mean to them. In this quote "Listen to my warning. Give to mortals/The tapestries that make you/Famous and foremost among mortal weavers,/But give to the goddess /Your gratitude for the gift./“Leave it to her to boast of you, if she wants to,/And ask her to forgive you/For your reckless remarks/Against her./She will hear and she will be merciful" That was Minerva in disguise telling Arahne to be grateful for her gifts and share them with the other mortals (humans) but she did not want to she kept her talents and her tapstrys all to her self even after offered forgiveness from the gods just to say sorry and share her art with others. Arachne is so confident of her skills that she does this to the goddess of weavers "Arachne/Laughed at the suggestion./Her sole instructor, she claimed, was her inborn skill. /“Listen,” she cried, “I challenge Minerva'" (27-29) She laughed when is was suggested that she could have been taught by Minerva. She is so happy that she is the sole teacher she had. Arachne was treated fairly by

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