Psyche youngest and the prettiest out the king's three daughters, so exceptionally stunning that many people all came to worship her that they stopped caring for the goddess of love Venus. In anger Venus orders her son Cupid the god of love to shoot her so that she falls in love with the most despicable creature but he falls in love with her instead. Her father went to an oracle of Apollo and then oracle says the she is to be placed on a mountain and whisked away by a serpent to be married to Cupid. She arrives at a marvelous mansion and discovers that her husband is no monster but that she actually found her love. Her sisters convince her that her husband must be the monster so she breaks the rule of seeing his face making him leave in anger. Psyche feeling guilty appeals to Venus who sets her four impossible tasks to complete. In the last task curiosity got to her leading her into a deep sleep. Cupid then saves her and makes her his wife. …show more content…
A motif in the story is jealously because it's continuously being repeated with the sisters being jealous of Psyche and with Venus being jealous from Psyche. There are a lot of conflicts going on throughout the plot of the myth. For instance the ongoing jealousy between Venus and Psyche causes' a lot havoc and results in Venus torturing Psyche also similar to that is Psyche's sisters jealousy of her that results in Psyche making a mistake that will cost her a lot of suffering. Another example of a conflict would probably be between Venus and her son Cupid because he went against her orders and like everyone else chose Psyche over Venus. The theme of this piece may be "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies" because of the meanings of Psyche (soul) and Cupid