The story of Phaeton is that of a spoiled kid that wants to ride his fathers' chariot. I was able to identify a lot with this story since it is reflected upon our daily lives. Obviously, not every kid today wants to ride their fathers' chariot, but however they do want everything they don't have. Maybe the reason for them not to ride their fathers' chariot is because most fathers don't have a chariot nowadays, (only mine). For those of you that can't familiarize that much with the story yet, Mary Zimmerman made an interpretation that will help you indeed. The chariot is now a car. Easier? Pleasurably modern?
But this story isn't really about a car. It's more of the kid in the car. That spoiled, stupid child that burned the whole world. With a car? Yes. This is how everything happened:
Apollo, Phaeton's dad, finally lets his son take the reins. This isn't something very easy to handle, and when Phaeton had his turn to show off, he did it with no doubts. But, he loses control. He wasn't able to manage the light that was delivered by the car and ended up burning the whole world. Yes, you heard it right. The whole world was burned.
So why are we here? How did we get here? I think that this story tries to explain the world as it is somehow. So maybe Phaeton isn't that spoiled after all.
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