When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody,you want the rest of your life to starts as soon as possible;though Cupid shows that love doesn’t age and reminds us that true love hurts;faith is to believe what you don’t see,the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. This is the story about Cupid/Eros.
The ancient Romans often illustrated Cupid as winged child or baby. Who carried a bow and quiver full of arrows.While the idea that Cupid was a child with wings appealed to many poets and artists.There were also different conceptions of this important god.Cupid was the god of love in Roman mythology. The name Cupid is a variation on Cupido (desire), and this god was also known by the name Amor (love). It was
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The myth talks about a beautiful young woman thats is the youngest daughter(named Psyche) of a royal family. When word spoke of Psyche’s beauty many people that worshiped Venus in her altars,left to see her. Venus was infuriated and asked her son(Cupid) to shoot a love arrow at Psyche and make her fall in love with someone very ugly. Cupid obeyed and filled his arrows and went to the castle. When he saw how beautiful she was, Cupid dropped the arrow meant for her and pierced himself, and fell in love with her.Notwithstanding her great beauty no one wanted to marry Psyche.Her parents communicated with an oracle, and were told that she was bound to marry a monster, and they were to take her to the summit of a mountain and leave her there. Later than a wind god came and picked her up took her to a a palace. She roamed the palace and soon found invisible servants attending to her.When nightfall came,her new husband visited her, and told her that he would always visit her by night and she must never try to see him.Although her invisible husband was kind and gentle with her, and the invisible servants attended to her,Psyche grew homesick. She persuaded her husband to allow her sisters to visit her.Her sister got very jealous of her and told her that her husband is a monster and that he is trying to fatten her up. And they suggested she should look at his face. At …show more content…
The myth talked about how not to judge a person based on their appearance. Rather than to judge a person based on their belief.There is a very interesting thing about Cupid is that he has two different types of arrows(gold and lead)that have different purposes, one arrow (lead) does the opposite of love and makes one person hate the other. The gold arrow makes one person fall deeply in love with another person. Even if it is against their
In the Symposium, a most interesting view on love and soul mates are provided by one of the characters, Aristophanes. In the speech of Aristophanes, he says that there is basically a type of love that connects people. Aristophanes begins his description of love by telling the tale of how love began. He presents the tale of three sexes: male, female, and a combination of both. These three distinct sexes represented one’s soul. These souls split in half, creating a mirror image of each one of them. Aristophanes describes love as the search for the other half of your soul in this quote: “When a man’s natural form was split in two, each half went round looking for its other half. They put their arms around one another, and embraced each other, in their desire to grow together again. Aristophanes theme is the power of Eros and how not to abuse it.
Since Aphrodite had the magic girdle and was so beautiful, all of the gods fell in love with her. & nbsp;& nbsp;& nbsp;& nbsp;& nbsp; All of the goddesses were jealous of Aphrodite because all of the gods loved her instead of the other goddesses. Because of this, Zeus arranged a marriage for her with Hephaestus, the lame smith-god.5 Aphrodite didn't really mind this marriage arrangement. though, because she thought Hephaestus would never notice her having marital affairs. Hephaestus knew nothing of deception until, one night, he caught his wife and Ares, the god of war, making love at Ares' home. Hephaestus went back to his home very angry.7 Hephaestus was so angry that he decided to get revenge on Aphrodite by literally catching the while they were making love.
One day Andromedas mother boasted that her daughter was more beautiful then any of the gods daughters except for Aphrodite. This was when the trouble started. Poseidon who was the god of the sea had daughters who heard of Andromedas mothers boasting. They whined to their father telling him to do something about it. They kept doing this until Poseidon who was very angry at this point flooded the city and sent a giant sea serpent to eat everybody in the city. The king of the city who was the father of Andromeda asked a oracle what he should do. The oracle said he must sacrifice his daughter to the serpent. The king then ordered for his daughter to be chained up to a tree on a cliff that faced the sea. When the guards were done chaining her up to the tree, Perseus who was adventuring that day saw her and fell in love with her as soon as he saw her. He landed near her and cut the chains off. After that the sea serpent tried eating them but Perseus got his sword out very quickly and cut off the head of the sea serpent. They both fell in love with each other and got married soon
Lysander’s Eros love creates an argument when his love is directed to someone else, Previously, everything for the original two lovers were going to be immaculate. Oberon’s love for Titania changed into envy, which caused natural disasters in both the fairies and mortal’s world. Lastly, during the comedy when love once more creates a romantic scene, it then quickly escalates the scene into a bloody death. Love can be beneficial, but it may also become the bane of one’s life and the lives of others. Hence, one should be cautious when in the midst of love and not act in haste so that it does not become one’s
One can see this characterization (like Apollo’s) in the first lines of the story. Lines 452-453 describe how “Primus amor Phoebi…dedit…saeva Cupidinis ira” (452 - 453), or, “the first love of Apollo…was given by the deadly rage of Cupid” (452 - 453). With this introduction, Ovid suggests that Cupid has more power than Apollo does, given that the former has the ability to manipulate “Amor” (452) at will. Cupid elaborates on this ability in lines 468-470. These lines are “eque sagittifera prompsit duo tela pharetra diversorum operum; fugat hoc, facit illud amorem; quod facit, auratum est, et cuspide fulget acuta” (468-470). This means “and from the arrow-carrying quiver (Cupid) drew two arrows of opposite directions; the former drives away (love), the latter makes love” (468-470). Cupid holds power over both love and hate, and uses this ability to play with humans (and other gods) like puppets. Lines 472 and 474: “hoc deus in nympha Peneide fixit, at illo laesit Apollineas traiecta per ossa medullas; protinus alter amat, fugit altera nomen amantis”; Cupid instills Daphne with absolute hatred for Apollo, and Apollo with insatiable love for Daphne (472 - 474). As one can see, Cupid and Apollo both wield weapons. However, the significant distinction in Cupid’s abilities as opposed to Apollo’s lies – again – in the nature of Cupid’s abilities.
While true love is treasured when achieved, its rarity can be attributed to the multitude of obstacles lovers must face. Couples often have trouble expressing their love for one another or may face challenges within the marriages. Whether it be disagreements, affection of surroundings, friendships lost, or jealousy, the quest for true love has its consequences. This concept is expressed several times in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, in the cases of many of the lovers. However, it can be argued that although complications ensue, true love is worth a life of trouble.
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By using the name Cupid it becomes much easier to find depictions of the god Eros. For this assignment I have chosen to use three depictions from the modern world and one from the nineteenth century. Of these depictions, three come from video clips and one is a painting. All of these depictions encompass different aspects of the god. In some of these depictions he is the only cupid and in others he is just one of many. Another aspect these depictions cannot agree on is whether or not he is the young man or the baby. On top of both of these disagreements, one of the clips seems to contend that...
Long ago there was city called Cyprus, an island in ancient Greece. The patron deity of the city was the beautiful goddess of love, Aphrodite. Aphrodite was not a fan of the city of Cyprus, specifically the women there. The women that lived within Cyprus neglected to pay homage to the beautiful goddess, fuling her animosity towards the women. Because of the neglect shown by the women Aphrodite cast a curse upon all of the women that they may only live the forsaken loveless life of being a prostitute. Of course this raised concern for the men of Cyprus, the only women they had to share their lives with were doomed with a life a prostitution. However, there was one man, Pygmalion, a sculptor living on the edge of town, who hated this about all the women so much that he refused to be with women and had accepted a life of companionless solace.
Psyche was the most beautiful of the three daughters of an unnamed king. People admired her beauty that angered goddess Venus. The god of Love, Cupid, fell in love with her. Following the oracle from Apollo, Psyche met Cupid at night, in the dark and fel...
I gathered my men and told them I needed valuable time to think. Of course, in this matter, they lifted me up and fanned me while walking around the realm to ensure a comfortable thinking environment. Suddenly, I heard a swish, then a dash of glitter. A womanly human figure appeared from the opening. I did not know who she was, or why she was here, yet I held a gut feeling this being would bring good to us. She too was taken to another room filled with bunks. I was not aware of this at the time, but she was Aphrodite, the goddess of love. After overhearing my enthusiastic love and compassion towards Penelope, one of the almighty immortals responded to my prayers and aided my
In 1787, Antonio Canova sculpted a masterpiece crafted around a love story; Psyche Revived by Cupids Kiss. A king had three daughters, his youngest, Psyche, the most beautiful of them all. Venus, the goddess of beauty, was jealous of Psyche. She ordered Cupid to avenger her and eliminate Psyche so she would once again be the most beautiful. However, when Cupid saw Psyche he fell in love with her. Every night, Cupid made love to Psyche without ever revealing his identity until one night she lit a lamp to look at him. When Cupid found out his identity was revealed, he fled. Psyche spent numerous days searching for her lost love. Venus, still jealous of Psyche’s beauty, ordered her to do many things in hope of eliminating her. She sent Psyche
Individuals involved in romantic relationships often send messages to one another with the intent to convey honest information about their romantic partner. Literature on this topic has already been published, but researcher Shuangyue Zhang found gaps and unanswered questions in this previously conducted research that he wanted to resolve. In 2009, Zhang began researching the hurtful, but honest messages that are sent and received in romantic relationships with two overlapping goals in mind. He wanted to uncover the “motivations and relational consequences of honest, but hurtful evaluated messages,” while simultaneously investigating “the relational satisfaction, sex of the respondent and message types” (Zhang, 2009). With his purpose in place, Zhang developed a hypothesis for his research that stated, “Recipients will interpret honest, but hurtful messages more negatively than will senders” (Zhang 2009). The subjects of Zhang’s study, 515 undergraduate students (32.4% male and 77.6% female) from Midwestern University, were given one of two different questionnaires, “one sender questionnaire and one receiver questionnaire,” and asked to “reconstruct a conversation” that they took part in that involved an honest, but hurtful evaluative message (Zhang, 2009). Participants were then given a scale and asked to rate the hurtfulness, emotional pain and alleged honesty of the message that they recoded (Zhang, 2009). At the conclusion of the study, Zhang measured and assessed the honesty motives, perceived intent and relational ramifications of the messages (Zhang, 2009). The study effectively conducted by Shuangyue Zhang in 2009 not only yielded findings in support of the hypothesis, but also revealed other findings. These other findings...
In the story of Daphne and Apollo, the chief agent of transformation is love, represented by Venus and her youthful and mischievous son, Cupid. When the god Apollo brags to Cupid of his great might exemplified by his defeat of the python, Cupid humbles him by reducing the great god to a shameless lover with his gold-tipped arrow of love. A transformation of sorts takes place when the Cupid's arrow strikes Apollo. Apollo transforms from a bragging God who claims superiority over Cupid by saying, 'You be content with your torch to excite love, whatever that may be, and do not aspire to praises that are my prerogative,';(p. 41) to a man possessed by desire. Despite his powers of strength and domination, the God of War is humbled by Love. A lesson is being taught to Apollo by Cupid. A weakness is spotlighted and exposed, and the role of Apollo is almost completely reversed. He is transformed from a figurehead of power to a crazed lover with no power over his love.
The Wife of Bath’s tale tells about the alteration of an old woman into a beautiful woman. The moral of this tale is that true beauty lies within one’s self. The foul woman may have been representing the Wife, in that she is able to display all of her true beauty of her youth, if her true love comes along; in the Wife’s case, it is Jankyn, her fifth husband and only true love. With Jankyn by her side, she is able to transform into a faithful and loyal wife, just like the old woman.