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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ORPHESUS AND EURYDICEBY OLIVIA COOLIDG

ALLIE MCMAHAN/ MCCUE 7TH /APRIL 7, 2017
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SETTING

THE SETTING IN THIS STORY IS IN THE WOODS/FOREST/KINGDOM

CHARACHTERS

ORPHESUS-MUSIC MAN SON OF APOLLO AND CALLIOPE

CHARACTERS

EURYDICE- PRETTY HAPPY-GO-LUCKY GAL; SHE WAS A WOOD NYMPH

CHARACTERS

HADES-KING OF THE UNDERWORLD AND RULER OF THE DEAD

CHARACTERS

PERSEPHONE-THE UNWILLING QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD;DAUGHTER OF ZEUS AND DEMETER

•ORPHEUS WENT TO THE UNDERWORLD

•EURYDICE'S SPIRIT FOLLOWED ORPHEUS

•INCONSOLABLE-IMPOSIBLE OR DIFFICULT TO COMFORT

•LYRE-AN ANCIENT STRINGED INSTRUMENT RESEMBLING A SMALL HARP

•ASCEND-TO GO OR MOVE UPWARD

•STYX-IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY THE RIVER ACROSS WHICH THE SOULS OF THE DEAD

•NYMPHS-DIVINE BEINGS REPRESENTED AS BEAUTIFUL

MAIDENS WHO LIVE IN NATURAL PLACES SUCH AS TREES

THE LESSON OF THIS LEGEND IS THAT EVEN THOUGH SOME MIGHT

SUFFER THE PAIN CAN TURN INTO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

THE CONFLICT OF THE LEGEND IS EURYDICE

DIEING AND ORPHEUS TRIES TO GET HER BACK FROM HADES

HADES AND ORPHEUS ARE ALIKE BECAUSE

THEY BOTH FELT SORROW FOR EURYDICE'S DEATH

THE AUTHOR WROTE THIS LINE TO TELL WHY EURYDICE DISAPPEARED

AND HOW ORPHEUS DIDN'T TRUST HADES