In Work and Days, Hesiod tells the story of Pandora, and how she was a curse on mankind. Before her, humans lived easy lives without pain, trouble or hard work, but when she opens the lid of a jar, she releases all evil and suffering into the world, however, hope gets caught under the lip of the jar and Pandora closes the lid before it is able to escape. This is interesting as we tend to think of hope as a good thing, so it begs the question of why hope was in the jar full of evils. In some tellings of Pandora and the box, hope escapes and it is the one thing that helps us combat the misery in the world. Hope can be a motivator; it helps us get through hard times and when things are terrible there is always hope that it will get better. People