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This is a 5 page paper comparing the stories of “Psyche and Cupid” and “Beauty and the Beast”. Several elements are similar to the storylines of the myth “Psyche and Cupid” and the folk tale “Beauty and the Beast”. Both female heroines in the stories must overcome hardships, travel and separation from their families in order to be with the ones they love who are not as they appear to be. Psyche believes her husband to be human only to find out he is a winged God. Bella believes the Beast to be a beast until it is revealed he is actually human. Both heroines end up loving the “beasts” despite their appearances and both end up having to experience transformations in order to be with the men they love: Psyche becomes a winged God to be with Cupid and the Beast becomes a man to be with Bella (Beauty).
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heroines in the stories must overcome hardships, travel and separation from their families in order to be with the ones they love who are not as they appear to be.
Psyche believes her husband to be human only to find out he is a winged God. Bella believes the Beast to be a beast until it is revealed he is
actually human. Both heroines end up loving the "beasts" despite their appearances and both end up having to experience transformations in order to be with the men they love: Psyche
becomes a winged God to be with Cupid and the Beast becomes a man to be with Bella (Beauty). The myth of Psyche
and Cupid begins to tell of a tale of Psyche who is the youngest of three daughters of a king and is so beautiful that she is compared to Venus,
the Goddess of Love. Venus became jealous and ordered her son Cupid to ensure that no man would ever love her. When Cupid went to Psyche, he accidentally stuck himself
with one of his own arrows and fell in love with her but he followed his mothers orders as well and made sure no other man would love her (Psyche
"Soul"; Comparing "Tam Lin" To "Cupid and Psyche"). When suitors stopped coming to see Psyche, her family consulted the Oracle where it
was written that Psyche had angered the Gods and must be sacrificed to a monster to appease them. They took Psyche to the top of a mountain and left her
where Zephyr, the God of the winds carried her to a beautiful palace where she was told to live. During the night, a lover came to her and told her
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