Dialogue of the Gods ZEUS: You’re a meddling, mean-spirited old man, Eros, and you won’t
get any mercy from me just because you have no beard or white hair! You were
about to send me off to a tryst with death! That’s right, I know all about it!
Prometheus spilled the beans on Thetis and the prophecy of Zeus’s doom! No
woman’s worth that! Not to mention all the little pranks you’ve played over the
years! Every time you send me down to Earth to have a little fun with some
mortal, I have to change into a bull, a satyr, a swan, an eagle … I’m a one-man
zoo! I’m surprised you haven’t had me turn into a bunny rabbit or a titmouse!
Why can’t these women ever be in love with me? I am the ruler of Olympus, after
all! Why do they always have to have some sort of animal fixation! Just once,
I’d like to show up as myself—be appreciated for my own charms! I mean, what
kind of woman does it with a swan?! As long as I’m honking and molting and
flapping those ridiculous wings, she’s in heaven, but the second I show my true
form, she nearly kills herself trying to escape! I don’t get it. Apollo doesn’t
have this problem. Maybe it’s the hair.
This mnologue is Zeus having a conversation with himself about his problems. You can tell by the way he is talking and the way he uses "meddling, mean-spirited old man" - that this gives the impression to the whole aduience that he is angry about someone. This person he is talking about is Eros the God of love and Zeus is mad with eros because he was about to send Zeus to his death. When Zeus says "you won't get any mercy from me just because you have no beard or white hair" - this implies to the perhaps older audience that Zeus is maybe a fatherly figure or maybe a man with power and authority when he says "i will show no mercy".
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