El mito de pandora en la poesía y en la filosofía de Miguel de Unamuno

Abstract

With his poetic recreation of the myth of Pandora, in which in follows the tale of Hesiod, Miguel de Unamuno expresses his deepest existential worries: aspects such as the «hunger of knowledge» or the «anxiety of inmortality». The mythical figure of Pandora is considered by Unamuno, before everything as a mother and, at the same time, as a tragedy heroine and a prototype of humanity. Unamuno also uses some traits of the hesiodic tale, such as the «jar of evils», to offer his personal vision about Hope.