The Golden Ass
Exemplary Romance/Wonder Text
- outrageous adventures
- discovery
- buffetted by fortune
- READ THE BOOK
form basis of outrageous literature/comedy that you will continue to encounter
Cupid/Psyche
- Hero's journey, only it is a woman
- impossible tasks must be completed before the happy ending
- like Beauty and The Beast
- at heart the beast is kindly
- story of innitiation, that of Psyche to Mount Olypus
- Psyche moves from Bimbo to Divination
- Sister's demand that she sees her "ugly" husband
- she sees he is beautiiful and accosts him and wax falls on him
- she is pregnant
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
- cult following
- version of Cupid and Psyche
Pages:
117
pricks her finger on his arrow and "so the soul falls in love with love"
- she holds onto his legs and he kicks her away
- Psychic development of the feminine
- trys to kill herself but instead she washes ashore
- tells a lie...this shows the powers of invention, saying that her husband wants to marry Psyche's sisterand she must jump off the cliff to win him, instead the sister dies
Ch. 9
- boyfriend comes in and kills the robbers
- Venus says for capturing Psyche she will reward the finder with seven kisses and one french kiss
- Once Psyche is caught, she must perform impossible tasks, however the beasts help her to solve her problems, as well as several other animals
- the ultimate thing that Psyche must do is ask Prosperpina for her makeup and she must go to the underworld for this
- she must not open the box, but she does and falls into a deep sleep
- Cupid saves her and she becomes immmortal
Ch. 10
- frame narrative
- not a happy ending,
- she kills herself
225
- elaborate pantimime of judgement of Paris
- much like the mask in the Tempest by Shakespeare
- Lucius runs away from the circus
262
- jumps up to purify himself in the water seven times
- prays to queen of heaven to make him a man again (Isis)
263
- epiphany - sudden manifestation of the divine into the ordinary world
264
- true name is Isis= universal mother
- wants him to vome to high priest (initiation) take the crown of roses and eat them he will then be turned back
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269
- he is transformed
- becomes a priest of Isis
280
- Lucius talks to audience
- in the end it is happy but we must be initiated...we must eat the roses
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