OVID STORY OF NARCISSUS

Ovid Story of Narcissus



Ovid Story of Narcissus

Introduction

In this essay we will be discussing two documents which are Ovid story of Narcissus and Eco which is written by Roman poet Ovid. Furthermore, the other text, My life as an undocumented immigrant is written by Jose Antonio Vargas who is a former reporter for The Washington Post.

Ovid story of Narcissus and Eco

This myth is inspired from Greeks, which tells about Narcissus who was attracted to his own reflection. He saw it in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus died. In the third book of the Metamorphoses Ovid tells the story of Narcissus, the beautiful boy who fell in love with himself when he saw his reflection in a fountain. The mother of a newborn boy asks if her son will live many years and the Theban seer replied: "if you do not know himself” reversing the famous oracle of the Delphic oracle (know thyself) (Vinge, 1967). Once the chick reached fifteen years, the beauty of burned hearts of boys and girls, the tender form, however, hid irreversible hardness and wannabe lovers with the would-be lovers were left. One day Hera preoccupied with the chatter long enough to distract the attention and give the chance to Zeus to celebrate with the nymphs. The jealous goddess cursed the conspiracy of the cuckolding of Zeus, so the Echo has lost her voice.

As the love Echo has gotten behind the Narcissus, the boy begins to someone follows him and asks: "Is anyone here;" To receive the response from Echo: "here". So the Echo not only repeats the words of the boy, but answered the question. When the words of Narcissus repeated by the mouth of the girl, they have a totally different dimension. In response to the echo response, Narcissus says: "Come" and Echo repeats. The thing, however, like to have other connotations when you hear the love girl. The verb ("come") was etymologically and semantically connected with Venus, the goddess of love. Narcissus says just come to see you and Echo says come and make love. Narcissus says "come" and Echo replies "come. If that seems far-fetched interpretation, let us see what happens then. Narcissus says: "Let duped" and Echo answered willingly "let duped". None Roman reader would lose the hint, and the verb often describes sexual intercourse and not just meeting, as the means Narcissus. Emboldened by the Commission has taken the dialogue, the Echo rushes to embrace small and not much more. Narcissus responds: "Take your hands off me" says "better to die than to meet with me". The submissive sit of Narcissus is dictated by the secondary proposal, but when repeated by the Echo, transformed into subjunctive main clause: "I wish to meet with me".

The Echo, incorporeal and immaterial as to imagine it seems that a purely carnal desires and what I imagine is part of ...