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

For this week, I read Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche. This is the second part of the reading notes for this story. 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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This first part reminds me of when Regina George figures out that Cady isn’t really her friend in the movie Mean Girls. She starts screaming with chocolate in her teeth and runs home to put Cady in her burn book.
Venus could be the media if I stick to that story with the three brothers.
The brothers going to the media to give up the story of her lying to him too. They were skeptical that she was being truthful to him and they thought they were doing the right thing by showing the magazine to him and telling the media about her.
Also, after fleeing, she hid herself away in a cabin that no one knew about besides the brief mention of it to her husband.
Then the media would mentally rip him apart. Not giving him a chance to explain what actually happened.
He was about to give up all hopes of being normal and unknown again when he went to find his wife instead
I like the idea of three tasks.
It is interesting that they made Psyche so weak minded. She did as she was told and then in the end always ruins it somehow because of her lack of self-restraint/curiosity/brains.
I like how Cupid was able to simply brush away the sleep.
I think it is interesting that their child is called pleasure.
I like how it is a happy ending.
I could make the wedding in the story out to just be their reunion and the sharing of truths from both ends. She would tell him about what happened with her ex-husband and he would tell her about what his brothers did to expose her.
It is interesting that the donkey is a human. There seems to be a large chunk of the story that I am missing (most likely in the following pages).
I wonder what role the old lady has in the story.
Why did the donkey have to have been a person?


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