The Tale of Anesidora

Once upon a time, there was a woman who let all the evil out into the world.

Or perhaps the evil was already there and everyone just blamed the woman because they needed someone to blame.

Or perhaps the woman was responsible for hope, but they blamed her anyway and insulted her and hurled rocks at her and dragged her down until finally she could take no more of it, she could not live with their scorn and shame and decided to open the box again one final time.

Or perhaps there was no woman at all. Perhaps Anesidora did not exist. Perhaps there was no box.

But if there was a woman who opened the box and if she did open it again and the waveform collapsed and hope was dead, then what became of hope's corpse?

What becomes of a dead cat?