Echo and

Narcissus
By: Manas Borkar
Echo

 An attractive nymph who is a spirit of the land, Oread

 Born from the spirits of the mountains and woods
 The symbol of Echo is mountains
 At first Echo lived in the woods until she later moved on
into a cave
 Repeats the last words that other people say
Narcissus

 Narcissus is a hunter
 He is the son of Cephissus and
Leiriope
 His symbol is the daffodil
 Narcissus lived in the woods
 He became infatuated with
himself after he saw his reflection
in a pond
Background

 Zeus is a god who likes to have fun with

nymphs
 Hera doesn’t love anyone but her husband and
so she is always jealous whenever he hangs
with the nymphs
 On several occasions she tries to catch Zeus in
the act of hanging with other nymphs
 So, in this story she sets off to find him
 Curse of Echo
 When she goes to find him, she stumbles upon Echo, a beautiful nymph who had
encountered Zeus previously
 Hera asks for the location of Zeus but Echo refuses to reveal his whereabouts
 Infuriated, Hera then curses Echo by making it so that she can only repeat the last words
that others have said

Tell me No.
where my
husband is
now
 Echo encounters Narcissus
 Although Hera cursed Echo it really hadn’t affected her life a lot
 However, when she is roaming through the woods, and she finds Narcissus things change
 At first sight she falls in love with his face because it is a gorgeous one
 She starts to embrace him, but he doesn’t like that and runs away
 Echo is depressed and goes to lives in a cave from now on
The pond

 After Narcissus ran away from Echo, he then

stumbles upon a pond which is not accessible to
all creatures
 He is in desperate need of a drink and goes up to
the pond
 He then sees a figure which is his own reflection
in the pond and becomes infatuated with it
 He cries begging to be able to touch his
reflection until he has no more tears
 He stays by the reflection so long he dies and
turns into a flower, the daffodil
Moral

 There is danger in loving

oneself, because if you
love yourself too much you
can lose sight of people
who care about you and the
people you care about
Works Cited

 Ms. Arndt's pdf