Interpretation Essay
Mythology 6th period
17 September 2008
Ceyx and Alcyone
People are always saying if you are faithful to the one you love and if you are not bad you will always end up doing good or moving on too good places. The reason my myth is important because it contains the emotion of true love. Even though Ceyx was at sea and Alcyone could of easily gotten away with having an affair with another guy she choose to wait for him, until the day he came back. So in this story Ceyx is going to go out to sea and a great storm comes up and the boat gets sunk and the crew and Ceyx drowned.
That day Hera sent Morpheous who was the old god of sleep to visit Alcyone in her sleep. In this dream Alcyone saw Ceyx die drowning and all Ceyx asked for is for her to cry for him. After she cried for him in her sleep she than woke and went out to the sea only to find that it was not a dream at all.
So on the physical and natural you have death both physical and natural way how a person passes on tho the different world. The social level of this is that it not only effects him, but as a wife, Ceyx is extremely hurt also and is left vulnerable. The psychological level of this is that it Ceyx no longer has someone to rebound on once she is knocked down there won't be that other person in her life to pick her back up so sadness is psychological.
Lucky in this love story, Ceyx lived because Alcyone was good and honest. Hera choose to keep Ceyx alive because she knew that Alcyone could not handle the disappointment of her losing her true love. She was good and so good things happened she did not have to handle the pain of death, instead they live above us in the air.
That day Hera sent Morpheous who was the old god of sleep to visit Alcyone in her sleep. In this dream Alcyone saw Ceyx die drowning and all Ceyx asked for is for her to cry for him. After she cried for him in her sleep she than woke and went out to the sea only to find that it was not a dream at all.
So on the physical and natural you have death both physical and natural way how a person passes on tho the different world. The social level of this is that it not only effects him, but as a wife, Ceyx is extremely hurt also and is left vulnerable. The psychological level of this is that it Ceyx no longer has someone to rebound on once she is knocked down there won't be that other person in her life to pick her back up so sadness is psychological.
Lucky in this love story, Ceyx lived because Alcyone was good and honest. Hera choose to keep Ceyx alive because she knew that Alcyone could not handle the disappointment of her losing her true love. She was good and so good things happened she did not have to handle the pain of death, instead they live above us in the air.
