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Psyche was a young girl living in today's society, and she saw that there were many things going on in the world that she did not agree with. One day as she was walking in downtown New York city she noticed a billboard that wasn't there on her walk the day before. The billboard read 'Bring World Peace: details inside.' While she stopped to read it and it caught her attention she kept walking along. The next day when she passed that same area, she found that the sign was gone. She asked someone about it and they didn't know what she was talking about. "That sign has always been an add for Chipotle," the stranger said. One strange looking boy however, who had overheard their conversation approached her and said, "let's go inside, I saw the sign too." Now she was really intrigued so she agreed and they walked inside together. "Hello," said the woman standing inside, "are you ready to accept your calling?" "I don...

The thing that initially caught my attention about this story was how they described the place Psyche was being held. While it was a prison to her, it was described so lavishly that it would seem that she shouldn't have the right to say that. In my opinion, this is an analogy for how money cannot buy you happiness. She is almost tricked into this whole lifestyle, but then when he tells her she cannot see her sisters, she realizes how upset she really is there. But, time after time again she goes back to him. He gives her physical things but lacks the emotional needs that she had with her family before she was taken prisoner. As the story progresses further, the theme of jealousy presents itself. The sisters are jealous of her and all that she now has, while it almost seems as if Cupid is jealous of her sisters. But this is what plays out the rest of the story. This story almost just makes you stop and think about what kinds of things give you true happiness. She was taken as a pr...

This week I chose to read the Roman story of Cupid and Psyche. While I have heard of this story before, I have never read the whole thing so this was very interesting for me. I am way more familiar with the Greek mythology and how they tell the stories, but it is really interesting how the Romans and Greeks parallel each other in many ways. For example, they have the same gods but with different names. In the first section of this part of the reading, they talk about praying to Mars, which is the Roman god, while in Greece it parallels as Aries, the god of war, which is who more people are familiar with. Then also later introduces us to Venus, who is a Roman goddess, who parallels to the Greek goddess of beauty Aphrodite. After the reading so far, I feel like there isn't as much personality within the Roman gods, which may be a reason that the Greek mythology is more popular and well known. You can really tell that the Romans got a lot of their mythology ideas from the Greeks. I al...