Darlene Rose R.

Bongcawil
N33

1. The story of Narcissus and Echo is taken from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," a collection of myths concerned
with transformations. What two transformations occur in the story? Narrate briefly.

Two significant changes occur in the tale of Echo and Narcissus: Echo becomes a voice without a body and
Narcissus changes into a flower. These transformations, on the one hand, offer straightforward
justifications for the things that are real in the world. Indeed, there are echoes and daffodils everywhere.

2. Narcissus and Echo is a story about unrequited love or love that is one-sided because it is not returned.
Discuss briefly the tragedy of the characters Narcissus and Echo and how they suffer from the love that is
not reciprocated.

Echo's fellow nymphs begged Nemesis to punish Narcissus for loving someone who did not return the
favor. In a pool of water, where he wasted away and died, unable to take his eyes off the lovely youth he
did not recognize as himself, nemesis made him fall in love with his own reflection.