Saturday, September 10, 2016

Books: Fairy Tales: Hans My Hedgehog, or the Compilation of Tales Based on and Similar to the Greek Tale of Cupid and Psyche Part Two

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/

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