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    CUPID AND

    PSYCHE
    “LOVE CANNOT LIVE WHERE THERE IS NO
    TRUST.”

    Edith Hamilton
    CONTENTS 1 CHARACTERS

    2 SUMMARY

    3 IMPLICATION
    01

    CHARACTERS
    CUPID(EROS)

    Cupid is a god and Venus's son. His arrows can


    make humans fall in love. Upon seeing Psyche for
    the first time, he is pricked by his own arrow and
    falls madly in love with her, to the point of
    disobeying his mother's command to humiliate the
    girl as punishment for Psyche being regarded as
    lovelier than Venus herself.
    PSYCHE

    The Greco-roman goddess of the soul; youngest


    daughter of the king; the most lovely maiden exist
    that surpass the beauty of Venus..

    Psyche is the central figure in the myth, and she is


    the one who undergoes the greatest transformation.
    She begins the story as a lonely mortal princess
    and ends as an immortal woman beloved by Cupid,
    having proven herself worthy by her actions and
    resolve.
    VENUS

    The Roman goddess of love and beauty;


    also called Aprodite in Greek; mother of
    Cupid

    As the antagonist of the story, Venus is presented


    as petty, jealous, and cruel, condemning the
    innocent Psyche merely because some people
    claim she is more beautiful than Venus. Later, she
    has the pregnant Psyche undergo several harsh
    tasks to regain Cupid and seems to take a sadistic
    pleasure in tormenting her.
    APOLLO

    The god of Greek prophecy and healing.

    He is the one who give advice to Psyche Father


    ZEPHYR

    He is the god of the west wind.

    He is the one who takes Psyche to Cupid's mansion


    when her family leaves her to her fate atop the
    mountain, dressed in funeral attire for what they
    believe will be a monstrous groom—more likely to
    kill her than anything else.
    JUPITER (ZEUS)

    The god of the sky and ruler of the


    Olympian gods.

    Jupiter is the king of the gods. He is troubled by


    Cupid's bad behavior but agrees to grant Psyche
    immortality when Cupid requests it, so long as
    Cupid aids Jupiter in his own love life in the future.
    PERSEPHONE (PROSERPINE)

    PERSEPHONE (PROSERPINE) the goddess


    queen of the underworld ; wife of the god
    Hades.

    A figure who unites youth and beauty with maturity


    and death. Venus tells Psyche to ask Proserpine for
    a little of her beauty to restore Venus's own, which
    she claims has been diminished due to her efforts
    in nursing her son after Psyche injured him.
    Proserpine gives Psyche some of her beauty when
    she hears her story.
    02

    SUMMARY
    There was a king who had three daughters, all lovely maidens…

    But the youngest, Psyche, excelled


    her sisters so greatly.

    The fame of her surpassing


    beauty over the earth, and
    everywhere men journeyed to
    gaze upon her..
    Venus was enraged by this and sent her son Cupid to make the girl fall in love with the
    vilest and the most despicable creature there is in the whole world.

    Venus showed Psyche to Cupid. As he looked upon her it was as


    if he had shot one of his arrows into his own heart. He said
    nothing to his mother.

    Psyche did not fall in love at all.

    Apollo told her father that his daughter was doomed


    in a prophecy. He commanded the girl to be left at the
    edge of a cliff. Psyche waited there for her doom.
    On the hilltop in the darkness
    Psyche sat, waiting for she
    knew not what terror. There Psyche woke up beside a bright
    she wept and trembled, a soft river and on it’s bank was a
    breath of air came through the mansion stately and beautiful as
    stillness to her, the gentle though built for a god, with
    breathing of Zephyr, the pillars of gold and walls of
    sweetest and mildest of winds. silver and floors inlaid with
    She felt it lift her up. precious stones.

    Throughout the day, except for the strange companionship of the voices, she was
    alone, but in some inexplicable way she felt sure that with the coming of the night
    her husband would be with her.

    And so it happened. When she felt him beside her ear, all her fears left her. She
    knew without seeing him that there was no monster or shape of terror, but the lover
    and husband she had longed and waited for.
    One night, he warned her that her Psyche asked Cupid the next
    sisters were coming to visit her. She night if she might see her
    promised to do as he asked but sisters again and he gives in
    eventually begs him to allow her to to her but warns her that they
    see her sisters. are planning evil. When they
    He relents and the next day they are came, they reveal the oracle
    carried to the house by the same of Apollo and convince her
    wind. They saw her wealth and were that her husband was not a
    immediately jealous. man, but the fearful serpent.

    When he lay sleeping quitely, she


    summoned all her courage and lit the lamp.
    She tiptoed to the bed and holding the light
    high above, she gazed at what lay there. The
    relief and the rapture that filled her heart.
    NO MONSTER WAS REVEALED, BUT
    THE SWEETEST AND FAIREST OF ALL
    CREATURES.
    Some of the oil fell from the lamp upon his shoulder. He started awake: he saw the
    light and knew her faithlessness, and he fled from her. She rushed out after him into
    the night. She could not see him, but she heard his voice speaking to her. “LOVE
    CANNOT LIVE WHERE THERE IS NO TRUST.”

    “The god of Love!” he was my husband and I wretch, that I am could


    not keep faith with him. “I can spend the rest of my life searching for
    him. If he has no more love left for me, at least. I can show him how
    much I love him.” And she started on her journey. She had no idea where
    to go; she knew only that she would not give up looking for him.
    Psyche came into Venus’s presence the goddess laughed aloud and asked her scornfully if she was
    seeking a husband since the one she had had would have nothing to do with her because he had
    almost died of the burning wound she had given him. Venus gave some tasks to Psyche.

    P s y c h e ’ s F i r s t Ta s k

    Venus took a great quantity of the smallest of the seeds;


    wheat and poppy and millet and so on and mixed them
    all together in a heap. Psyche was heartbroken and
    could not start her task, but a group of ants performed
    the task for her. And mass lay all ordered, every seed
    with its kind. This was what Venus found when she
    came back, and very angry she was to see it.
    Second Task

    The next morning, she devised another task.


    Down the riverbank, where the bushes grow
    thick, are sheep with fleeces of gold. Psyche
    must fetch some of their shining wool. And
    Psyche accomplished this by pulling the wool
    from the sharp briars. Venus received it with evil
    smile. And said that, someone helped her.

    Third Ta sk

    Next, Venus made her get a vile of black water from


    terrible which is called hateful, the River Styx. This
    time her savior was an eagle, who poised on his great
    wings beside her, seized the flask from her with his
    beak, and brought it back to her full of the black
    water.
    Venus kept on and one cannot but accuse Psyche of some stupidity. The only effect of all that
    had happened was to make her try again. Venus gave Psyche a box which she was to carry to
    the underworld and ask Persephone (Proserpine) to fill with some of her beauty.

    Psyche found her directions how to get to Persephone’s palace,


    first through a great hole in the earth, where she must give the
    ferry man, Charon, a penny to take her across.
    From there, the road led straight to the palace, Cerberus, the three-headed dog,
    guarded the doors, but if she gave him a cake he would be friendly and let her
    pass.

    Proserpine was willing to do Venus a service, and Psyche greatly


    encouraged. Bore back the box, returning far more quickly than she
    had gone down. Her next trial she brought upon herself through her
    curiosity and still more, her vanity. She felt that she must see what
    that beauty-charm in the box was; and perhaps, use a little of it
    herself. She was unable to resist the temptation and opened the box.
    To her sharp disappointment she saw nothing there.
    Immediately, however, a deadly languor took possession of her
    and she fell into a heavy sleep. At this juncture, the god of
    Love himself stepped forward. Cupid was healed of his wound
    by now and longing for Psyche. She was lying beside the
    palace, and he found her at once. He had wiped the sleep from
    her eyes and put it back into the box.

    Then waking her with just a prick from one of his arrows, and scolding her a little
    for her curiosity, he bade her take Proserpine’s box to his mother and he assured
    her that all thereafter would be well. While the joyful Psyche hastened on her
    errand, the god flew up to Olympus. He wanted to make certain that Venus would
    give them no more trouble, so he went straight to Jupiter. The father of gods and
    men consented at once to all that Cupid asked.
    Jupiter called a full asssembly of the gods, announced to all, including Venus,
    that Cupid and Psyche were formally married and that he proposed to bestow
    immortality upon the bride.
    Mercury brought Psyche into the palace of the gods, and Jupiter
    himself gave her the ambrosia to taste which made her immortal.
    This of course changed the situation. So all came to a most
    happy end. Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means)
    had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that
    union could never be broken.
    03

    IMPLICATION
    IMPLICATION OF THE
    STORY
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