Hello, Friends.
Today, we are continuing with our plot chart of Cupid and Psyche and similar stories. Dragomir named it, obviously, and helped a little with the first half, but it got too late for Dragomir to do one or two of the stories, like he originally was supposed to do. What with the emailing back and forth and all, it's fairly complicated.
If you missed the first half, here it is:
http://onthebreathofadragonswing.blogspot.com/2016/08/books-fairy-tales-hans-my-hedgehog-or.html
Climax:
3) Cupid and Psyche: Psyche lights a candle to see who is in her
bed, but then Cupid wakes up, and because she did not trust him,
suffers many wounds. He leaves.
3) Hans My Hedgehog: (Anthony Minghella Version) Hans's wife
throws his hedgehog skin into the fire, which burns him. He tells her
he is under a curse, and if she had waited three days, he would have
been freed. The curse makes him fly out the window.
3) East of the Sun, West of the Moon: The girl lights a candle,
but drips wax on the man, who was cursed to be a polar bear by
day. He then explains he now has to go marry and extremely ugly
princess, but if she had waited one year, they both would be free.
She wakes up in a patch of grass.
Falling Action: (two parts)
4a) Cupid and Psyche: Psyche travels far and wide to find him, and
eventually learns that he is staying with his mother, Aphrodite.
4a) Hans My Hedgehog: (Anthony Minghella version) Hans's wife
travels far and wide to find him. Eventually, she has a dream of a
small house. Although she does not know it, the house is Hans's
childhood house. Both his parents died. She wakes up in the house.
4a) East of the Sun, West of the Moon: The girl goes to search for
him, and meets three old ladies, who each give her a gold item. They
direct her to the East Wind, who takes her to the West Wind, who
takes her to the South Wind, who takes her to the North Wind, who
knows where the castle east of the sun and west of the moon is. He
takes her there.
4b) Cupid and Psyche: Aphrodite sets Psyche three impossible
tasks, which Cupid secretly helps her with.
4b) Hans My Hedgehog: Hans's wife finds Hans there and rushes to
him. He turns into many different types of animals to try to get
away, but she holds on tight.
4b) East of the Sun, West of the Moon: The girl goes to the
castle, and plays with her golden things. The ugly princess wants to
buy them, but the girl will only exchange one for a night with the
prince. However, when she sees him, he is drugged and will not wake.
This happens the first two nights, but then some kind people living
in the castle tell the prince that a girl had been in his room crying
for the past two nights. Then, the prince pretends to drink the
sleeping potion, but doesn't. The third night, they make a plan. The
day of the wedding, they carry out their plan.
Resolution:
5) Cupid and Psyche: Psyche accomplishes the tasks with help from
Cupid, then Cupid appeals to Zeus, asking if he can make Psyche a
goddess. Zeus has favor on them, and grants Cupid's wish. Cupid and
Psyche live happily ever after.
5) Hans My Hedgehog: (Anthony Minghella version) Finally, Hans
turns into a human, the spell is broken, and they live happily ever
after.
5) East of the Sun, West of the Moon: Their plan works, they
defeat the ugly princess, and they live happily ever after.
This is how it would look on a plot chart:
Did you like these stories? Did you think it was interesting to line up the different plot points of these stories in this way?
Spruce Nogard
Attributions:
https://pixabay.com/en/cupid-eros-greek-love-myth-psyche-1295027/
