![]() ![]() He only cares that his power is acknowledged and respected. Helios doesn’t appear to care whether or not she transformed Glaucos and Scylla, as he has no sympathy for either. By recanting her confession, Circe reaffirms Helios’s power over her. Circe eventually gives in to the pain and begs forgiveness, which shows that, while she is willing to confess her guilt, she is not willing to fully defy and denounce the gods as Prometheus did. ![]() In response, he tortures her, demonstrating how those in power use abuse to subjugate those beneath them-even their own family members. Helios becomes furious with Circe when she contradicts him because he sees her disobedience as a threat to his power. To cast off her family’s cruelty, she must do more than think differently from them-she must act differently than they do, too. She thinks about Prometheus, whose sacrifice inspired her to realize her own agency. But Circe doesn’t want to be like her family, who have caused her pain. Circe, for instance, implements the same philosophy that she sees in her family: she has learned that using power indiscriminately is how a person gets what they want. This suggests that one does not automatically inherit their family’s vices through birth, but that one adopts their family’s patterns of behavior over time. As she remembers, she did not relish Prometheus’s pain when he was tortured, which shows that she does have empathy, unlike so many of her family members. Although her selfish transformation of Scylla does suggest that Circe is like them-she shares their vices-she has not always been so cruel.
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