The House of the Goddess Envy
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The House of the Goddess Envy
Envy’s “House”
Poorly-keptNo sunshineNo windGloomyCold
Minerva comes to Envy
Envy’s Characteristics
Eating her snakesPaleSkinnySquinted eyesMeanRust colored teeth
Before Envy LeavesPuts on her mantleWhat is it? A loose sleeveless cloak Envy’s was “cloudy” or darkWhy is it important? It represents a layer or blanket of darkness
Picks up her staff of thornsWhat does it represent? Envy herself
How does Envy kill Aglauros?
Touches her with her hands and fills her heart with thorns
Breathes poison in through her nose
Gives her a vision of Herse and Mercury happily married
Aglauros enviesDoes not want her sister
to be happyBlocks Mercury’s entranceTells Mercury she will not
leave until she has ruined his reason for being there
Aglauros’s FateMercury goes in
anyways Aglauros tries to stop
himShe cannot do anything stiff cold could not speakShe had become a
black statue
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