Value Of Loyalty

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Joana Silva Mr.Jefferies block 4 09/30/15 Loyalty: is this always good thing?! Cupid and Psyche, bacuis and philemon, and phigeliom all show the value of loyalty but not all nessisairly being positive. in the myths there loyalty is displayed through there actions and there devotion towards each other and the gods, and also by what they say to one another. loyalty is important in greek culture because its highly valued by people and the gods and is more often that not rewarded. cupid and psyche both demonstraite there loyalty by there actions towards eachother and by what they say to one another, even though cupid was told by his mother the godess aphrodite stay away from psyche because she had a hatred for her, cupid was loyal to psyche and when cupid is decived by phsyche and she is faithless to him by taking the lantern to reveal his identity, cupid gets mad for a little while but in the end comes back to psyche and still shows he cares for her and still shows his loyalty "psyche grew glad again, since she knew that cupid was caring for her...she made her way slowly up a great tower, thinking to throw herself down from it and die. once again, however, cupid cared for in the story it ends in negative loyalty when they both take their lives to show there loyalty to eachother "he could harldy think of her fate.. he would rememebr it for the rest of his life and know that it was all of his fault... with that though he came to the conclusion....he gripped, his dagger and plundged it into his body with all of his strength"(pg 124. blue book) he had such a great and strong love and devotion to her that he wasnt able to live without her and that he was so loyal to her that he desided to take his own life to be wth her and to connect and realte to that Thisbe loved pyrumus so much ,and had so much loyalty for him that she desides to kill herself when she finds him lying breathless and dead on the floor "her eyes fell on the lifeless pyrmus and then here eyes fell on the sword, thisbe shut her eyes and thrust herself forwards with all of her strength onto the swords tip"(pg.

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