Question

read the excerpt from the metamorphoses by ovid. the goddess was moved, and gave this response: \depart from my temple... and throw behind your backs the bones of your great mother.\ for a long time they are amazed, and pyrrha... refuses to obey the commands of the goddess, and begs her, with trembling lips, to grant her pardon, and dreads to offend the shades of her mother by casting her bones. in the meantime they reconsider the words of the response given, but involved in dark obscurity... deucalion soothes pyrrha with these gentle words, and says, \... the oracles are just, and advise no sacrilege. the earth is the great mother, i suspect that the stones in the body of the earth are the bones meant, these we are ordered to throw behind our backs.\ read the excerpt from the adaptation \the flood\ by how does the adaptation compare to the original? in baldwins adaptation, pyrrha figures out the meaning of the instructions, while in ovids original, deucalion interprets the correct meaning. in ovids original, the characters cooperate to understand the instructions, while in baldwins adaptation, deucalion alone figures out the meaning. in ovids original, the instructions ask the characters to disrespect a grave, while in baldwins adaptation, they are meant to dig stones out of the ground. in baldwins adaptation, pyrrha is afraid to follow the goddesss instructions, while in ovids original, she is eager to do as mercury says.

Explanation:

In Ovid's original, the instruction about throwing the "bones of your great - mother" is open - ended. Deucalion interprets the earth as the great mother and the stones in the earth as the bones. In Baldwin's adaptation, Pyrrha figures out the meaning of the instructions. This shows a difference in who understands the instructions between the two versions.

Answer:

In Baldwin’s adaptation, Pyrrha figures out the meaning of the instructions, while in Ovid’s original, Deucalion interprets the correct meaning.