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CUPID
and
PSYCHE
B a c k g r o u n d o f t h e A u t h o r :
Lucius Apuleius was born about c. 124
C.E
He was an African, an excellent
follower of Plato his sect, born in
Madaura, a Countrey sometime inhabited
by the Romans, and under the
jurisdiction of Syphax, scituate and lying
on the borders of Numidia and Getulia,
whereby he called himself half a
Numidian and half a Getulian.
After he went to Rome, and studied
there the Latine tongue, with such labor
and continually study, that he achieved to
great eloquence, and was known and
approved to be excellently learned,
whereby he might worthily be called
Polyhistor, that is to say, one that
knoweth much or many thing.
LUCIUS APULEIUS
The account of Cupid and
Psyche is presented in his
novel The Golden Ass (also
titled The Metamorphoses) as
an "old wive's tale" told by an
old woman to comfort a young
woman who has been
abducted by a band of robbers
and is being held for ransome.
SETTINGS
Cupid’s Palace
The Underworld
Mount Olympus
CHARACTERS
AND
CHARACTERIZATION
CUPID
The Roman god of
love and desire; son of
Venus; the beautiful
winged youth.
PSYCHE
The Greco-roman
goddess of the soul;
youngest daughter of the
king; the most lovely
maiden exist that
surpass the beauty of
Venus.
VENUS
The Roman goddess of
love and beauty; also
called Aprodite in Greek;
mother of Cupid
APOLLO
The god of Greek
prophecy and
healing.
ZEPHYR
The sweetest and
mildest of winds.
CHARON
The ferryman.
CERBERUS
The three-headed
dog.
CERES
(Mercury)
The goddess of
agriculture, grain
crops, fertility and
motherly
relationships.
PERSEPHONE
(PROSERPINE)
the goddess queen of
the underworld ; wife
of the god Hades.
JUPITER
(ZEUS)
The god of the sky
and ruler of the
Olympian gods.
KING
Father of
Psyche
TWO SISTERS
OF
PSYCHE
The Story of Cupid and Psyche….
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 she wept and
trembled, a soft breath of air came
through the stillness to her,
the gentle breathing of Zephyr, the
sweetest and mildest of winds. She felt it lift her
up.
Psyche woke up beside a bright river and on
it’s bank was a mansion stately and beautiful as though built for a god, with pillars of gold and walls of silver and floors
inlaid with 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 sisters were coming to visit
her. She promised to do as he asked
but eventually begs him to allow
her to see her sisters. He
relents and the next day they are
carried to the house by the
same wind. They saw her wealth
and were immediately
jealous.
Psyche asked Cupid the next night if she might see her sisters again and he gives in to her but warns her that they are
planning evil. When they came, they
reveal the oracle of Apollo and convince
her that her husband was not a
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.
Psyche’s First TaskVenus 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 TaskNext, 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 languer 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.
Theme:“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”
As in the story of Cupid and Psyche, Cupid, the god of
desire and love, falls in love himself, you’ll guess that the major
theme of the story is romance. Of course, it wouldn't be much of
a story if Cupid and Psyche just fell in love and everything was
immediately happy ever after. But when Psyche shows distrust in
Cupid and gets a glimpse of what he looks like against his wishes,
Cupid abandons her, showing that love cannot survive if there is
no trust between two people. After determinedly completing a
series of tasks, however, Psyche eventually regains Cupid and
finds eternal bliss, perhaps teaching the lesson that lasting love
can only be attained through dedication and struggle.
Implications of the story:The story implies that in a relationship, in order to have a
harmonious relationship with your partner you must have love.
Love is the most important ingredient in a relationship. Without
love, your relationship has no direction. And the other thing is
trust. If you really love your partner have trust on her/him.
Nothing can be taken from you if you trust each other.
Especially, now a days, what so-called Long distance relationship
in engaging in this kind of relationship, trust is the primary
value to be projected by the two lovers. They don’t know what
the other one is doing because they are not right beside each
other, so the important thing to do is you trust one another. To
build a strong and long lasting relationship you need love with a
trust. “Love cannot live where there no trust”, as what the
theme of this story.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND LISTENING..
Reported by:
GROUP 5
Arandilla, John
Cristal, Frinces Mae
Cortez, Mary Jo
Cuachon, Rona Mae
Decena, Cyril
Despi, Leizel A.
Edollantes, Mary Joy