Cupid And Psyche

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Throughout Greek mythology and all tales that speak of love, strangeness is always interwoven into a story line. Reading the tale of “Psyche and Cupid” we see this as well. Like most love tales much more than love is felt. Other emotions liter the pages the story is written upon—jealously, anger, and betrayal.
From the opening we see signs of jealously being planted. In the description of the beautiful Psyche shows how all of humanity thought she could be a goddess. “When the young princess went out on her morning walk through the streets, victims were offered in her honour, sacred feasts spread for her, flowers scattered in her path” [2]. The people would even call her the goddess of love or other titles that the real goddess of love, Venus, would be called. This thought angered the true Venus. From all the tales we see that the gods and goddess anger easily and most of their interaction with humanity is an act of revenge.



So enraged with spite and anger and feelings of jealously Venus has cursed Psyche and sent her son, cupid, to ensure she falls in love with pure ugliness. “I implore you, darling, as you love your mother, to use your dear little arrows and that sweet torch of yours against this imprudent girl. If you have any respect for me, you’ll give me my revenge, revenge in full” [2]. This, in theory, was an excellent plan. However, Cupid fell in love with Psyche. But because of the jealously that his mother felt, he hid his love for her and even hid her away.
Isolation is a dangerous thing and can have much effect on people. The loneliness started to get to Psyche. “The poor girl spent the whole day in tears, complaining over and over again that not only was she a prisoner in this wonder palace without a single human being to chat with but she was forbidden to relieve the minds of her poor sisters” [6]. Psyche finally convinces Cupid to let her see he...