READING NOTES: APULEIUS'S CUPID AND PSYCHE (READING A)

For this week, I read Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche. These are some of the things that I thought of while reading the first part of this story. I really enjoyed it and there were many ways I thought of that could transform the story.

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The best funerals are the ones with great stories. Wine always seems to bring out the best stories.
I like how the thieves are just thieves and do not mean to harm the girl.
And the old lady could be an enemy in disguise.
I could focus on the dream part.
In the first place dreams that come in daytime are always said to prove untrue, and secondly a nightmare often signifies the opposite. For example, being beaten, weeping, someone slicing at your throat, will announce a large and profitable deal; while laughter, stuffing sweet pastries, or love-making, foretell sad spirits, bodily weakness, and every sort of loss.
I like how there is a story inside of a story. It adds a level of detail that is very interesting.
I could contrast with Cinderella and the ugly stepsisters.
The stepsisters could be in on the plan to make her love the worst man
Instead of the cliff it was somewhere else where they took her to be married.
The servants could be something else.
The story could stop at some point and bring them back to the first story. Going into detail and then straight back again to the story inside.
The girl should have more of a story. It seems she is just pretty and cries a lot.
Wow… This is a jealous mother-in-law story if I’ve ever seen one. I could contrast with the movie Monster in Law.
These sisters are all evil. Even if they messed up my marriage I wouldn’t send them jumping off a cliff… But I guess that was their punishment for jealousy and conspiracy against their own sister.
I could change it so they were three brothers. They would all marry but one would never say who his wife was or give any details. Thinking that he was lying, they snuck over to their house at night and discovered that it was someone who was famous but who had disappeared after a scandal with her ex-husband. She didn’t tell her new husband for fear of the media. The husband, didn’t keep up with media so he never knew she was famous. The brothers strategically placed magazines with her face on it so that he would see. When confronted, she fled.

Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche: link to the reading.