Myths, Folktales: The Prince And The Pauper

How About Those Myths, Fairytales, and Folktales In the past, myths, fairytales, and folktales were used to explain eternal thoughts such as ‘where do we come from?’ or ‘why are we here?’. Myths, fairytales, and folktales came about from real or imagined events that were worth repeating, and it was passed on by mouth until it was retold billions of times and had hundreds of versions. Now, it is a tradition to people to tell stories from a long time ago. Although they were told in ancient times, they are still relevant in today’s society because all of the feeling that the people in the myths had are rubbing off on us. Feelings such as jealousy, hypocrisy, not learning from mistakes, and selfishness. For those reasons, myths, fairytales, and

For example, on lines it is saying that the Prince was peering through the gates hoping that he would be able to see the prince. He was jealous of the prince of all the things the prince had. This feeling is still shown today. People today are jealous of all the amazing things other people have even though what they have is just as good. The myth called “Narcissus and Echo” indicates how selfish some people are. In this video version of the myth made by IvlagnetoTwo it states “Narcissus was a very beautiful young man”. All of the fairies loved him but there was one particular fairy that was beautiful named Echo. She was in love with Narcissus but he did not love her back, while she was stalking Narcissus, she forgot about all of her duties ordered by the goddess Hera. Hera was angry at Echo so she cursed her to only be able to repeat the last words of anyone 's sentence. A little bit after that, Echo was in the forest when Narcissus was walking and Narcissus started talking but Echo only repeated what he said. Then, Narcissus ran into a waterfall and saw his reflection and instantly fell in love. Because of the actions of Narcissus, Hera cursed Narcissus to only be able to love himself. Narcissus jumped in the water to his reflection and was never seen again. This is much like today’s society because even still today, people are still in love with themselves. People today are

In this myth, Paris is forced to settle an argument between the three main goddesses. Each goddess offered Paris some kind of reward if he handed that goddess the apple. When Aphrodite offered him a wife as fair as her, he tossed the apple to her, forgetting about his partner he already had, Oenone. In lines 132-133 page 317, it says “If Paris wanted a thing, then he must have it”. Paris then ventured off for his beautiful wife, he wanted the beautiful Helen of the Fair Cheeks. Paris kidnapped her and when King Menelaus found out, he started a war, the Trojan war. Paris didn’t realize what he had done until is was over. The poem “The Apple of Discord I” is a parody of the myth “ From Black Ships Before Troy”. The parody shows Eris’ point of view of the war. Eris was the one who threw the apple out that the three goddesses were fighting over. In the poem, Eris was being a hypocrite by saying that the gods are hard headed and never learn even though she is one of the gods/goddesses that she claims on page 332 lines 11-12 that “the gods are hard headed, they never learn”. Eris is a hypocrite because she causes trouble and never learns. Today, we are still hypocrites because we tell people not to do something but then we go do