Analysis Of Cupid And Psyche And Ashputtle - 854 Words

The famous quote â€Å"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil† by Albert Einstein. This quote has a lot to do with both short stories Cupid and Psyche and â€Å"Ashputtle†. Each story was related to how the villains were extremely cruel to the main characters. The evil relatives made them go through difficult tasks that they shouldn’t have to face alone but did. The girls both had to face the same things, but in different stories and had their happy ever after at the end. But toward the end of the stories there were some differences on the two of how each evil relatives got punished. Both stories refect on how good is rewarded and evil is punished In these two stories both of the main character have their†¦show more content†¦In a lot of ways the stories are similar to each other, but there are even more ways how they are different. One of those ways are like how the cruel relatives get punished. In both stories the v illains deserve a little bit of karma throughout both books. In Ashputtle one way the relatives were punished by: â€Å"and the doves pecked out both the remaining eye.† (Straub 858) I feel that the step sister had Karma from what they did to Ashputtle for all those years. They were just jealous and cruel to her before and after she got married to the prince. So the doves pecked out both of the sister’s eyes, which the doves were suppose to represent her mother how passed away and always look out for her. So Ashputtles mother wants the best for her and she didn’t ruin her evil stepsisters to ruin day of getting married to the prince. But in Cupid and Psyche it was a little bit different. Venus did a lot of awful things to Psyche and made her parents give her up on a mountain. She also got her son to try to get her to marry someone that looked like a monster, but overall Venus’s plan backfired:†My dear son,’ said Venus â€Å"Punish that beau ty.† (Benson 844) Venus got a little bit of karma when she wanted her son to make Psyche fall in love with a monster instead he stuck himself with the arrow on accident and fell in love with her. Which is bad for Venus because her son is in love with the person she despises the most Psyche. In both of the situations karmas were lots