Pandora's Box - Is their hope?

I have just read a little about pandora's box and the story has a number of similarities with the story of Eve. Firstly in greak mythology there were gods and men and after an argument Zeus created a woman and sent her to Epimetheus as a gift, when they married Zeus gave her a box (in reality it was a jar) which he told her never to open.

If we now compare this to Eve, firstly god made man, then he made Eve. They were instructed not to eat the apple from the tree of life.

In both cases curiosity won over, Eve ate the apple and persuaded Adam to do likewise, they were then cast out of the garden of Eden and sin came into the world. In Pandora's case she opened the box and all the woes of the world, disease, despair, malice, greed, old age, death, hatred, violence, cruelty and war came out of the box. At this point she shut the box leaving only hope inside.

In both cases curiosity had the better of the human race, whichever way you look at it. But what I think we should ask is; if Pandora shut the box and kept hope inside, is their hope in the world or is it still shut away waiting to be released? Either way, hope for a better future is all we have and whether it is shut in the box or not, it doesn't matter. For if hope got out of the box then their would be hope in the world, and if it is shut in the box then their is always the hope that it will come out. After all hope is hope.