Read the excerpt from "Deucalion and Pyrrha” by Ovid.
Here is the world
with its glorious lands from east to west; and here are we,
an inglorious crowd of two. All else belongs to the sea.
As yet, indeed, we can hardly be certain the life that we have
is safely assured. These clouds still fill me with fear and foreboding.
How would you now be feeling, my poor dear love, if I
had been lost and you had been snatched from death?
Read the excerpt from the adaptation "The Flood” by James Baldwin.
But Deucalion and Pyrrha were very sad, for they knew that they were the only persons who were left alive in all the land. At last they started to walk down the mountain side towards the plain, wondering what would become of them now, all alone as they were in the wide world.
How does Baldwin’s decision to describe the characters’ feelings change the tone from Ovid’s original?
from a feeling of disappointment and sadness to one of relief
from a feeling of fear to one of despair and significant loss
from a feeling of betrayal to one of camaraderie
from a feeling of joy and pride to one of bewilderment
