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How Does Orpheus Change Eurydice
At the beginning of the story, Orpheus has this talent that he uses it in a bad way towards the gods that changes Eurydice.Orpheus is singing and playing around that he didn’t care what would be his consequence.Eurydice goes to the underworld and Orpheus is the one that discovers his wife body and he was so sad to see his wife dead.“ Grief came alike, to gods and to men as the listened but no comfort came to him from the expression of hi sorrow.” He was so talented at his singing that he made fun of the gods.Orpheus doesn’t know what risks he would have to do to get his wife back.In the middle of the story, Orpheus is believing that he will get his wife back. Orpheus lost his wife so he is going to Eurydice to ask if he can bring his wife back to life but he faces challenges on the way to Eurydice. …show more content…
Orpheus made a deal with Eurydice to go to the top of the mountain without looking back of his wife. Orpheus is facing all risks to to see his wife again. At the end of the story, he was so scared of what happened to his wife the second time that he wanted to see her again. Orpheus is suffering through his consequences and he wants to die because he misses his wife and what he did to his wife the second time she died. It was water bore them downstream the lyre murmured its last music and the white lips of orpheus still breathed of her whom-at last! He had gone to join in the shadowy land,“ Eurydice! Eurydice!” “ The gods moved by orpheus tortured life and brutal fate spirited his soul to join his wife in Elysium. Orpheus was so mad after he lost his wife for the second time that he wanted to be tortured and die just to be with his wife again. He is willing to giving up his life to go see his wife up in

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