The narrator is a man turned donkey, who is traveling with a
bunch of thieves. Why is this guy a donkey, and what does he have to do with
the plot? The thieves kidnap a girl from a wealthy family. The girl was going
to get married the day she was taken by the robbers. She was getting married to
her cousin. An old woman is with the robbers, she is trying to comfort the girl
by telling her a story. Why is the old woman with the robbers in the first
place?
The story starts with the youngest daughter to the king and
queen, her beauty is indescribable with mortal words. Many people speculated
that this girl could be the goddess Venus herself. People stopped worshiping
Venus and started worshiping the princess. Venus became very angry at the
thought of being replaced by a mortal. Venus is going to get revenge on Psyche
stealing her spotlight! This kinda sounds like celebrities these day, always
jealous when a new star comes into town and steals their spotlight. I can see
the headlines now “Psyche, the new Venus?”. Maybe I can set my story in modern
day Hollywood were Venus is a well-established A-Lister, and Psyche is a new
star to roll through town, and she quickly steal Venus’ fame. Venus wants Cupid
to make Psyche fall in love with the worst guy there is, the unluckiest guy on
earth. Even though Psyche was such a beautiful no one wanted to marry her. An
oracle told her father that she will get married, but it will be the death of
her. She was taken to the palace of a god. There are invisible servants at this
palace. Everyone back home thinks she is dead and her sisters are going to go
to the cliff where Psyche was left to mourn. Psyche is told that she can’t
respond or even look at her sisters or it will bring her a lot of pain and
misery. Psyche convinced her husband (who is also invisible) to let her see her
sisters, but he said she shouldn’t listen to their advice if they tell her to
try and reveal his true self to her. When her sisters saw all that she had,
they became jealous and angry. They are going to plot to harm or even murder
her because they don’t think she deserves her riches. She revealed her husband
to be Cupid himself. Maybe this could tie in to something online, where neither
see each other face, but Psyche can’t help but find out who she is talking to.
She goes to her sisters and makes up a story that Cupid wants to take one of them
as his wife, that sister, without second thought, jumps from the cliff and
dies. After that she goes to her second sister and says the same thing, and the
same outcomes happens.
Bibliography: Cupid and Psyche, written by Apuleius and translated English by Tony Kline. A fairy tale included in the novel The Golden Ass.
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