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Cupid and Psyche Report
Cupid and Psyche Report
PSYCHE
“LOVE CANNOT LIVE WHERE THERE IS NO
TRUST.”
Edith Hamilton
CONTENTS 1 CHARACTERS
2 SUMMARY
3 IMPLICATION
01
CHARACTERS
CUPID(EROS)
SUMMARY
There was a king who had three daughters, all lovely maidens…
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.
P s y c h e ’ s F i r s t Ta s k
Third Ta sk
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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