Read the excerpt from The Metamorphoses by Ovid. This passage is told from Jupiter’s perspective.
The report of the iniquity of the age had reached my ears; wishing to find this not to be the truth, I descended from the top of Olympus, and, a God in a human shape, I surveyed the earth. ’Twere an endless task to enumerate how great an amount of guilt was everywhere discovered. . . .
"Wherever the earth extends, the savage [wicked] Erinnys reigns. You would suppose that men had conspired to be wicked; let all men speedily feel that vengeance which they deserve to endure, for such is my determination.”
Read the excerpt from the adaptation "The Flood” by James Baldwin.
After Jupiter had bound Prometheus on Mount Caucasus and had sent diseases and cares into the world, men became very, very wicked. They no longer built houses and tended their flocks and lived together in peace; but every man was at war with his neighbor, and there was no law nor safety in all the land. Things were in much worse case now than they had been before Prometheus had come among men, and that was just what Jupiter wanted. But as the world became wickeder and wickeder every day, he began to grow weary of seeing so much bloodshed and of hearing the cries of the oppressed and the poor.
"These men,” he said to his mighty company, "are nothing but a source of trouble. When they were good and happy, we felt afraid lest they should become greater than ourselves; and now they are so terribly wicked that we are in worse danger than before. There is only one thing to be done with them, and that is to destroy them every one.”
How is the adaptation similar to the original?
Humans behave badly because Jupiter sends trouble into the world.
Jupiter decides to destroy humans because of their immoral actions.
Jupiter decides to destroy the world because he is afraid of humans.
Humans behave badly because Jupiter starts to live among them.