Percephone Helsinki syndrom

In the hymn to Demeter there was a couple of concepts that interested me more than just the hymn itself. the first was the idea of Persephone embracing her captor hades, when by all rights she ought to hate him. I looked into this idea, and discovered that indeed what was most definitely still is. Scientifically this is called Helsinki syndrome. basically the idea is this: the captive develops a strange bond with the captor, and in some cases is caused stress by leaving them. Interestingly enough there is an instance of this in early American literature that portrays this "syndrome" although it does not deal with lovers it is still very easy to observe the transition from hatred and resent for the captor to acceptance and even reliance. around 1675 Mary Rowlandson was captured by the Narraganset tribe with whom she was held for an extensive period of time. In the beginning of the narrative her adjectives describe the natives as savages that are cruel and relentless; however, by the end of the essay this language disappears and she is tolerant to their ways. she has accepted their ways. She even has the chance to escape just like Persephone but turns it down. The part of this that is circumstantially bounded is this: with Persephone she is attracted to hades for what ever reason, where as Rowlandson embraces her captors as she believes it to be a test from god.