Cupid and Psyche Vs. Iron Heinrich
Week 10/21/19- 10/27/19 Every fairy tale and folk story have been contaminated and changed in some way, for example The Greek myth of "Cupid and Psyche" and “Iron Heinrich” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. As a myth, the story of "Cupid and Psyche" is meant to entertain and reaffirm the power of the gods in a way that is perceived as a true event. "Iron Heinrich," however, is written not as a truth, but to entertain and instill motifs found in some of their other fairy tales. The biggest similarity between ‘Iron Heinrich’ by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and the story ‘Cupid and Psyche’ by Lucius Apuleius is the beauty and the beast motif. Cupid and the frog are the “beasts”. Psyche and the princess are their companions, the “beauty”. We can determine this due to the representation of the beasts within the princesses themselves. This is shown in "Cupid and Psyche" when Psyche looks upon her husband for the first time, wielding a knife, prepar