Persephonies monologue
Well, hello I am Persephone the goddess of spring but sadly I am also the the queen in the underworld. I know I know you must be wondering why a beautiful young lady like me would marry the old ugly trapped monster Hadies, but like they say the truth is always bitter! It was nothing but an awful scheme.
So once upon a time I was simply minding my own business like always and enjoying the beauty of the flowery meadow, and SUDDENLY I felt someone grab me aggressively. I was being taken to the underworld to be the bride of a monster unwillingly!
Hadies had brought me to the underworld to marry him. I obviously didn't want to ruin my own life by marrying him so I declined and wished to return home. He even offered me food but stubborn me said no not until I return home back to my mother. For days he kept me as his prisoner insisting me to eat but I declined every time.
After a couple hours of not seeing me my mother Demeter panicked and started looking for me all over the world! After not being able to find me my mother went to Zeus my father where she learned that I was abducted and that my father knew about it. She got furious and asked for my return. When I received the news that I would be going home I was overjoyed and decided to eat something. So I grabbed seven pomegranate seeds, not knowing that for the next seven months of every year I would have to stay with Hadies in this hell hole.
My mother became furious at the news of this and laid a curse that while I was down in hell all the plants would die and everything would stop growing, and when my return came in Spring everything will come to life, and start again. And this is why who I Am this very day. Sadly , I must go back to my husband Hadies as it is this time of year again. See you next spring !!
So once upon a time I was simply minding my own business like always and enjoying the beauty of the flowery meadow, and SUDDENLY I felt someone grab me aggressively. I was being taken to the underworld to be the bride of a monster unwillingly!
Hadies had brought me to the underworld to marry him. I obviously didn't want to ruin my own life by marrying him so I declined and wished to return home. He even offered me food but stubborn me said no not until I return home back to my mother. For days he kept me as his prisoner insisting me to eat but I declined every time.
After a couple hours of not seeing me my mother Demeter panicked and started looking for me all over the world! After not being able to find me my mother went to Zeus my father where she learned that I was abducted and that my father knew about it. She got furious and asked for my return. When I received the news that I would be going home I was overjoyed and decided to eat something. So I grabbed seven pomegranate seeds, not knowing that for the next seven months of every year I would have to stay with Hadies in this hell hole.
My mother became furious at the news of this and laid a curse that while I was down in hell all the plants would die and everything would stop growing, and when my return came in Spring everything will come to life, and start again. And this is why who I Am this very day. Sadly , I must go back to my husband Hadies as it is this time of year again. See you next spring !!