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Nanabush Creates The World

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage” (Lao Tzu). In the myths Nanabush Creates the World, Orpheus and Eurydice and Savitri and Satyavan, they all have someone that they love. Their loved ones may be their weakness, however, the bravery they have comes from their loved ones. There are different kinds of loves exist whether it is in the past or in the present. Loves are everywhere, it is just how you see it. For example, love in a family can make one’s family strong and reliable and love between wife and husband can make create trust and responsibility. No matter what they must go through, they always willing to save each other. First, in the myth Nanabush Creates the World, the main character Nanabush lived together with his young brother. However, the peaceful life had disturb by the Serpents people. When Nanabush find out that his brother is missing, he realized that the Serpents people must have murdered his brother, so “he set out again, this time to find the …show more content…

In Orpheus and Eurydice, the love between Orpheus and Eurydice let Orpheus have the courage to save Eurydice out from the Underworld. When Eurydice got poisoned from a snake and went to the Hades, Orpheus decide to “enter Hades itself and fetch her back to earth from there” (Gibson 32). It is the love from Eurydice give Orpheus the courage to save his wife out of the Underworld, and it is the love Orpheus had towards Eurydice so that he do not want to leave his wife in the Underworld alone. Furthermore, in the myth “Savitri and Stevana”, the love between Savitri and Satyavan give Savitri the courage to follow Yamraj. When the Yamraj took Satyavan' soul, “Savitri followed on foot. She followed miles and miles” (Jaffrey 185). Savitri determined action had finally convinced the Yamraj to give back her husband’s

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