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[...] Thus was Hercules, Yes, by Hercules, it is thus : thus he was born and raised. She showed herself and behaved thus. Yes, by Hercules, it is well thus that she showed herself and behaved. 10 Now she looks up and breathes a goddess, a woman who has the voices of maids and commands the winds themselves. Now she looks up Already she looks up, and breathes a goddess woman and the woman breathes the divinity which has slave voices she who has servile voices and commands the winds themselves. [...]
[...] Apuleius, Metamorphoses [Cupid and Psyche], V Juxtalinéaire, literary translation and commentary. APULEIUS, Metamorphoses, 8 [THE JEALOUSY OF SISTERS « 1 As soon as the excellent sisters had perpetrated this deed and were returning home, already fragrant with the gall of growing envy, they were buzzing with many conversations between themselves Thus finally said the other : 3 "Oh cruel and wicked and unjust Fortune 4 Was has pleased you, that we, born of both parents, should endure a different fate ? [...]
[...] CONCLUSION Apuleius reveals the logic of theenvy here is born the impossibility to admit the difference and the happiness of others. The speech, filled with hyperboles, accumulations and devaluing images reveals the moral pettiness of the sisters. The comedy comes from the presentation of the sisters as talking machines and the caricature (of the husband). This passage is an important moment in the story: it prepares the misfortunes to come. [...]
[...] began to speak like that. Finally one of them begins her tirade like this: 3 "Oh cruel and wicked and unjust Fortune "Oh cruel and savage « Ah, there she is the blind, the cruel and unjust Fortune and the unjust Fortune This is indeed Fortune, blind, cruel and unjust 4 How did it please you, that I should endure a different fate from my twin sister, born of the same parents? How did it please you, Was that therefore what pleased you that my twin sister and born that we, as sisters, descendants both parents from each of the two parents we shall sustain a different fate. [...]
[...] Sister, You have seen, my sister, how much lies in the house how many objects are spread out in her house, and what fungi, what kind of jewelry, which are about to wear clothes, which garments are indicated by their brilliance, which shine precious stones, which precious stones shine, how much gold is scattered everywhere, and how much gold, here and there, it is calculated. is he trampled underfoot? You have seen, my sister, the number and quality of jewels that lie in his house, the dazzling clothes, the sparkling gems and also the amount of gold on which one walks here and there. [...]
