Actividad 14 Ingles

Segment 1

Psyche’s beauty was such that she was considered to be a new Goddess of Love, and as her fame increased, many came from distant countries to observe this extraordinary vision. Aphrodite’s sanctified places of adoration were empty and her festivals neglected, and instead of visiting the temples of this sweet goddess, people made long religious trips to see the greatest beauty of their time, the princess Psyche. In this way they started venerating Psyche and addressing her by the titles that belonged to lovely Aphrodite. The goddess disliked this situation, as there is nothing more ridiculous than when a mortal is considered and honored as a god. For, a human may be brilliant, but there is no way of comparing a mortal with the subtle delicacy of those who reside in Heaven…

¿Qué va a hacer Afrodita?

R= Afrodita decidió que había llegado el momento de poner las cosas en orden y llamar a su hijo.

Segment 2

Consequently, since so many people had lost their minds worshipping a mortal as a god, Aphrodite thought the time had come to put things right, and calling her darling son, Eros, she instructed him to shoot his arrows against the girl, and so make her fall in love with some kind of talented outsider, the worst specimen of the human race he could find, lacking rank, fortune, character, intelligence, courage, and whatever good quality one could think of, and being in the most perfect state of degradation. During all this time Psyche got no satisfaction at all, because men, instead of falling in love with her in a natural way, stared at her, admired her, and paid her all kinds of honors, never being valiant to make love to her. As a result, while her elder sisters were married to kings, the mass of admirers and worshippers were still treating her like a wonderful statue. And because of this absurd situation, Psyche was still single and started feeling miserable.Even her father started fearing that this inconvenient cult may offend the gods, which inevitably happens when humans disobey the limits of their nature, acting as if they were someone else. Therefore, he went to the Apollo's Oracle at Miletus, and there he asked where he could find a husband for her daughter. But the answer he received was of no consolation, because the Oracle declared that Psyche’s destiny was to marry a horrible monster on the top of a mountain…

¿Qué va a hacer el padre de Psyche con ella? ¿Seguirá las instrucciones del oráculo?

R= Su padre recurre al oráculo de Apolo, allí pregunta que puede hacer con su hija para encontrar un marido, sin embargo la respuesta que da el oráculo no es alentadora.

Segment 3

Following the Oracle, a procession, looking more like a funeral cortege, was then formed to guide Psyche to the top of the mountain, and there they left her lamenting and trembling…

¿Qué va a ser de Psyche? R=

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