Influences/other:
Carter translated Charles Perrault's stories as well as Marquis de Sade (after whom sadism was named)
x Cupid and Psyche (2nd century AD)
similar to: perseus and andromeda, st george
CUPID = The Body
Son of Venus
Bow + arrow
(gold tipped = love, lead tipped = hate)
A blind cupid symbolically means a purely lust based relationship
PSYCHE = The Soul
Two older sisters - i.e. Psyche is "The youngest"
The Plot:
- A beast savages the country
- Tie out psyche as a sacrifice to the beast to stop it + save country
- Cupid flies past and is like DAYM GURL Dat ass... and picks her up to his castle made of clouds (because hes cupid and he can do that kind of thing) (did I mention he's invisible)
- Psyche cared for by all the invisible servants that cupid happens to have in his awesome cloud castle
- Every night Cupid comes back and makes rampant love to cupid, she's pretty happy, but she never actually gets to see Cupid.
- Psyche misses her family, who sacrificed her, and so he gives her a magic mirror with which to see them, and shes like, boy this isn't the same, and hes like yeh cool and smashes back her family into the castle.
- Her sisters proceed to make fun of the dainty psyche because she cant see the guy, and they're like omg he must be well uggers to hide himself from you! and she like proper believes them and gets well scared.
- So in the night he's sleeping next to her and shes like BOOM BRING OUT A CANDLE AND SEE HIM and hes like ahh cause she spills some wax on him and the castle disappears because his mum is not pleased at all!
- Psyche is like hey venus I quite like your son really, can I still go out with him I like him a lot. Venus is like no you can't, get off. Well, unless you can do all these crazy trials like.. sand split from rice etc
- Psyche makes lots of animal friends which help her and eventually she finishes all of the trials and she becomes immortal and live happily ever after.
Also another
- A knight rapes young girl, the girl gets the knight condemned to death.
- The Queen suggests that she punish him instead
- Her challenge is that he has a year and a day to discover what women most want, if he gets it wrong she'll get his head chopped off.
- So the guy's walking around and gets all kinds of answers, and one day he sees a fairy circle and goes over to investigate
- the fairy circle turns into an old well uggers woman, who turns out to know exactly what women want, for a favour, she tells him.
- He goes back to the queen and tells her it is "POWER" (by which they have freedom)
- So the old woman comes in and is like- yeah my favour is that you marry me
- He gets into bed with her and cant get it up, and she mocks him, he says its cause youre pretty ugly and old and poor.
- She says old = wise, hes only rich because of his ancestors and ugly = ill not be raped or unfaithful
- Shes magic so shes like do you want me to be ugly and faithful or beautiful and unfaithful and hes like you can choose my love
- and shes like well ill be beautiful AND faithful then!
