It is curious to see how you can transform something so traditional and long into something concise and modern. The flexibility of literature does not stop surprising me. Take the story of Apollo’s son who attempts to drive his father chariot or car and ends up crashing it against the world.
Driving technique. Fail.
Even though his father warned him oh so many times to take the middle way and not let go, he still did it.
Ability to follow instructions. Fail. The tediously long story was summarized and updated in Metamorphosis. There was a car, a therapist, and a school beating. For an “ancient” text I say it is a hell of an update. Nevertheless this text wasn’t the one which surprised me the most.
The juicy simplicity of the story of Psyche gave me some sort of peace. Besides the actual fact that what is says is surprisingly true, the way that the questions and answers where so direct left me astounded. Again, love appears in the story, but so does curiosity. Some say curiosity is good and healthy but in this case it punished the naïve Psyche.
Poor she, who ignored that all the jealous gossip, was as fake as those who spoke it. The ones who deserved the punishment for committing a capital sin, where the ones who forced the innocent, in love, Psyche to receive such disgrace. Even though the text is direct and very simple it touches the most complex themes in Metamorphosis. It deals with jealousy and how it takes down the ones who don’t deserve it. Gossip to make others fall into disgrace they don’t deserve and make others feel some sort of stupid superiority.
In this case the negative effects on Psyche did not take the best of her. She overcame all of the obstacles that other made her overcome, and still she left with the biggest prize. The eternal love of whom she loved.
“It’s just inevitable. The soul wonders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes we find our soul.” Pg.76
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