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Would it be exaggerating to describe Cupid and Psyche as the “Perfect Fairytale”?
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Would it be exaggerating to describe Cupid and Psyche as the "Perfect Fairytale"? The story of Cupid and Psyche is about a young woman named Psyche1 whose beauty reaches far and wide over the known world, "The loveliness of the youngest, however, was so perfect that human speech was too poor to describe or even praise it satisfactory"2 Psyche is so beautiful that people start paying her more attention than they pay the Goddess of love and beauty, Venus. The Goddess Venus grows jealous of the attention that Psyche receives and condems her by ordering her son, Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a perfect outcast of a man. "By the bonds of a mother's love......I implore you....by the sweet wounds of your arrows....punish mercilessly that arrogant beauty.....let this girl be ensnared by a burning love for the lowest of mankind."3 However, this plan fails and secretly Cupid falls in love with Psyche...
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