What is your reaction to the Cupid And Psyche myth's proclamation
about "trust" within relationships? Please comment with quotations
and/or references from the myth. This blog response should be completed
by Thur., Sep. 24th-Group A/Fri. Sep. 25th-Group B.
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When they are in a relationship, Cupid tells Psyche never to gaze upon his face, she breaks his trust and when he discovers, she pays the price for her mistakes. Then in an attempt to win him back, she gets a box that she can't look at, but what does she do? She looks at the box and betrays him again. Since Cupid wasn't there he doesn't realize what she actually did and rescued her and they never left each other again. This teaches us that trust can be broken without being known. I feel like Psyche wants to be with Cupid, but she keeps doing exactly what not to do, but I guess that'll happen when you're married to a girl named 'Psyche'.
I think that what Cupid asked of Psyche is not obtainable, I mean she married him and she could never even see his face.
This was very male dominant, he defined the relationship by not letting her see his face. Why was the god jealous of her when she was a god? Cupid was also asking a lot, it is very hard to know someone without knowing what they look like. It is also hard to trust them.
I personally thought about how trust is a big part and how when she says cupid he instantly left her. Their loss of love soon was regained. And of course, she had to open the box which happens a lot in greek mythology, their curiousness results. in plague
My reaction to the Cupid And Psych myth's proclamation about "trust" in relationships was that if you start to lose the trust the relationship can start falling apart but it can get back together, like when Cupid lost his trust in his wife but still came back when she regained his trust once again.
I think that the “trust” within the relationship doesn’t sound like a fitting relationship. I don’t think you can be in love with someone if you don’t even know who they are. Psyche just knows Cupid as the man in the dark. He says to her, “You may never see my face.” It doesn’t sound like they would be very happy together, and when she did see his face, Cupid flew away.
I think that this story shows that trust is very important In a relationship, but it can also be fixed if broken. Psyche broke Cupid's trust by looking at him while he was asleep, but she didn't have intentions of hurting him so there was room to rebuild. Her journey was her way to earn Cupid's trust back, and she was able to do so.
I think that the idea of trust that is presented in this story is very interesting, but not realistic. His first expectations of his new wife are unreasonable, as you can't be completely in love with someone if you can't even look upon their face. The story says "This half-and-half companionship could not fully content her". This implies that she just isn't going to be satisfied or happy with him unless she sees his face. When she does, he flies away, which makes no sense. I wouldn't consider this breaking of trust, especially because they wouldn't have been happy if she hadn't done this.
I think that the trust in the relationship is not there. In a normal relationship, there's a lot of trust in the relationship. If you really love someone you have to trust them so much if its gonna be a good relationship. I also don't know why a goddess would be jealous of a normal human being. Cupid was acting like he was this ugly horrific being but when she saw his face she thought he was beautiful and very handsome. I don't know how psyche could fall in love with someone and have never seen their face and instead of after a couple of months being curious I would try to find out what he looks like the first day.
My reaction was that the trust in relationships is often broken, when cupid said that she could never see his face she got curious and decided to look at his face in the night. Cupid had trusted his wife to never see his face but she looked anyways. Although she did complete a task that regained her trust but then again she had opened a box she was not supposed to open. Often curiosity get the best of people in these stories.
The trust factor for this story is off. I disagree with the idea of trust because you should have someone love you for your personality rather than what they look like and that comes from actually showing them what you look like. I personally would not fall in love with someone if it was a shady shadowy man who talks to me everyday but doesn't show his face.
I believe that trust players a large role in this story. I think the first time it shows up is when cupid proclaims his vow to Psyche and asked her to not look at him. He expects her to trust him and do what he asked her to do. And secondly when Venus asks her to not open the box. Even though Psyche fails both times, Cupid still loves her for whatever reason. So I believe that the idea of trust not being 100% obtainable becomes a major theme of this story.
The trust within the relationship wasn't the best on both sides. Psyche is never allowed to see Cupid's face so Cupid doesn't trust her enough to see him. On the other hand Psyche goes against Cupids wishes and loses his trust by taking a candle and seeing his face. I do feel that they were happy in the relationship though. I feel that way because Psyche went to the under world to get Cupid's trust back, and Cupid went and saved her.
All relationships are based upon trust. In this myth, if Cupid and Psyche this is a typical relationship. All people have problems trusting the other person. But I have to agree with Cupid, “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” Because trust is the foundation of the relationship.
I think that trust is a very important thing in a relationship. But when that trust is broken the best thing to do after that is to rebuild that trust, make it better then what is was before. If that trust is not rebuilt, the relationship is going to be awful, and like cupid said, "Love cannot live where there is no trust."
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