This story sounded like a perfect blend of all of the "beauty & the beast" stories in our text. The story of "Cupid &Psyche" contained many facets stemming from each story, however the story containing the closest likeness, in my opinion was the french version by jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Simply titled, "Beauty and the Beast", this tale regaled how Beauty had sisters, who wanted to cause her misfortune, she was self-scarificial, and ultimately learned to love beyond her five senses. Of course there were obvious differences between the two such as the "curiosity killed the cat" character trait in Psyche and the fact that Cupid was not actually a beast, but just mischievous in nature.
Similarly, the two tales spoke about jealousy, vanity and true love all in one. The morals were the same as well. Each tale used the "beauty" and the "beast" to represent the same things. I believed "beauty" to represent safety and security of knowing and "beast" to represent the unknown and wild aspects of one's imagination.
This is just a precursor to what i found interesting when comparing the two stories....
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