Rebellious Phaeton and Eros and Psyche´s Blind Love

He we see a different kind of love. It isn’t like the love you feel for someone you like, but your family. I really like this passage because to me families a very important. They are like the center or the base that holds life together. Phaeton had a family like everyone else, but his was a little different, it was made up by Phoebus Apollo and Phaeton´s mom.

They really care for him, just like parents usually do, and in this case his mother comforted him after what had happened to him at school. “She gets all upset, crying and everything, because she still loves him.” (pg. 63) so she sent him to his father, who also loved him very much and wanted him to be happy, so he lends his cars keys and gives him some advice, because he knew that it wasn’t going to be easy and that he really needed to be careful, not to fly too high or too slow and so on, but he didn’t listen and that’s when the consequences come.

Here we see the importance of being obedient to our parents, they have lived longer and know more than we do, and even though times are different, they are still wise and know what is best for us, they always want us to be happy, because they love us so much. Things would have been different if Phaeton had listened to his dad, and there wouldn’t have been chaos and earth wouldn’t have been destroyed.



The tale of Eros and Psyche is very interesting, especially because it’s told in a totally different way. There are narrators, but the way they tell what it happening is by asking questions and answering them. I like how they say that Eros is blind folded, and in a way I it´s like saying that love is blind. There is also Psyche and how she was so perseverant and was one day, was finally able to be happy with someone she loved. “It´s just inevitable. The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.” (pg. 76) I think this kind of means that without love we aren’t complete, but we can only find it when we have searched for it with our soul, but only after having found love, we find our soul. But how can we love if there is no soul and how can we have a soul if there is no love? Love coming from our soul, and souls existing thanks to love are just like a cycle, but with no beginning or end.