CHARACTERS

 ORPHEUS: IS A LEGENDARY MUSICIAN AND POET I ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

HE IS KNOWN FOR HIS EXCEPTIONAL MUSICAL TALENTS AND HIS DEEP LOVE FOR
EURYDICE, ORPHEUS IS THE PROTAGONIST OF THE STORY, HIS JOURNY INTO THE
UNDERWORLD TO RESCUE EURYDICE DRIVES THE NARRATIVE.
 EURYDICE: IS ORPHEUS’S BELOVED WIFE SHE IS FATALLY BITTEN BY A SNAKE
AND DIES, WHICH SETS THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF THE STORY IN MOTION.
EURYDICE DEATH AND ORPHEUS ATTEMPT TO BRING HER BACK FROM THE
UNDERWORLD FORM THE CENTRAL COMFLICT OF THE MYTH.
 HADES: THE GOD OF UNDERWORLD AND THE RULER OF THE REALM OF THE
DEAD. HE PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE STORY AS THE ONE WHO INITIALLY
ALLOWA OPRPHEUS TO TAKE EURYDICE BACK TO THE WORLD OF THE LIVING
BUT SITES THE CONDITION THAT ORPHUES MUST NOT LOOK BACK AT HER UNTIL
THEY ARE OUT OF THE UNDERWORLD, IF HE DID SHE WOULD RETURN TO THE
LAND OF THE DEAD FOREVER.
 PERSEPHONE: HADE’S WIFE AND THE QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD. IN SOME
VERSIONS OF THE MYTH, SHE IS ALSO INVOLVED IN THE DECISION REGARDING
EURYDICE’S RELEASE FROM THE UNDERWORLD.
 CERBERURS: THREE HEADED DOG WHO GUARDS THE DEADS.
 SISYPHUS: WHO IS NO LONGER ROLLED HIS ROCK UP THE HIL.
 TANTALUS: WHO DD NOT REACH FOR THE WATER HE WOULD NEVER BE
ALLOWED TO DRINK.
 FURIES: THE DEMONIC GODDESS OF VENGEANCE, WEPT.
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 MYRRAH: WHO LOVED HER FATHER AND WAS PUNISHED FOR IT.
 PYGMALION: WHO SCULPTED HIS IDEAL WOMAN OUT OF IVORY THEN PRAYED TO
VENUS UNTIL SHE CAME TO LIFE.
 VENUS: WHOSE BEAUTIFUL ADONIS WAS KILLED BY A WILD BOAR.
 A GROUP OF WILD WOMEN (MAENADS): THEY COULD NOT BEAR THE THOUGHT
THAT A POET WHO SANG A BEAUTIFULLY OF LOVE WOULD NOT LOVE THEM,
THEIRE JEALOUSY DROE THEM TO A FRENZY AND THEY DESTROYED POOR
OPHEUS.
SETTING
THE TRAGIIC MYTH OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE IS SET IN ANCIENT GREECE, PRIMARLY
IN THE MYTHICAL REALM. ORPHEUS, A GIFTED MJSICIAN AND POET, AND EURYDICE, HIS
BELOVED WIFE, LIVE IN WORLD OF GOD’S, NYMPHS, AND OTHER MYHTICAL CREATURES.
THE STORY’S PRIVOTAL EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN THE UNDERWORLD, RULED BY HADES
AND PERSEPHONE, WHERE ORPHEUS VENTURES TO RESCUE EURYDICE AFTER HER
UTIMELY DEATH. THIS SETTING MYSTICAL AND OTHERWORLDLY DIMENSION TO THE
TRAGIC LATE.
PLOT
 LOVE AND TRAGEDY: ORPEHEUS, A SUPREMELE TALENTED MUSICIAN, FALLS
DEEPLY INLOVE WITH EURYDICE, A BEAUTIFUL NYMPH. THEY GOT MARRIED AND
ARE BISFULLY HAPPY.
 EURYDICE’S FATL DEATH: EURYDICE IS BITTEN BY A VENOMOUS SNAKES AND
DIES WHILE FLEEING FROM A PURSUER, AND AFTER THAT HER SOAL WAS SENT
TO THE UNDERWORLD.
 ORPHEUS DESPERATON: OVERWHELMED BY GRIEF, ORPHEUS DECIDES TO
DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD TO PLEAD HADES AND PERSEPHONE THE
KING AND QUEEN OF UNDERWORLD TO RELEASE HER BELOVED WIFE, EURYDICE.
 THE POWER OF HIS MUSIC: ORPHEUS, ARMED WITH HIS ENCHANTING MUSIC,
GAINS TO THE ENTRANCE OF UNDERWOLRD. AFTER SINGING HIS LOVE FOR
EURYDICE, HIS MUSICS MOVES THE HEART OF THE GODS, AND THEY AGREE TO
GRANT HIS REQUEST ON ONE CONDITION: HE MUST LEAD EURYDICE BACK TO
 THE WORLD OF THE LIVING WITHOUT LOOKING BACK AT HER UNTIL THEY’VE
REACHED THE SURFACE.
 THE TORTUROUS ASCENT: ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE BEGIN THEIR ASCENT.
HOWEVER, ORPHEUS CONSUMED BY DOUBT AND LONGING, CANNOT RESIST THE
URGE TO GLANCE BACK TO EURYDICE JUST BEFORE THEY REACH THE SURFACE.
 UERYDICE SECOND DEATH: AFTER ORPHEUS GLANCE BACK THE CONDITION
BREAKS, AND THE SNATCHED EURYDICE BACK TO THE UNDERWORLD, AND LOST
HER FOREVER.
 ORPHEUS GRIEFS: DEVASTATED, ORPHEUS RETURN TO THE WORLD ABOVE,
HAUNTED BY THE MEMORY OF EURYDICE, ORPHEUS SWORE NEVER TO LOVE
ANOTHER WOMAN AGAIN. HE BECOMES A WANDERING AND GRIEF STICKEN
FIGURE, SHUNNING THE COMPANY OF OTHERS.
 TRAGIC END: ORPHEUS MUSIC, ONCE A SOURCE OF JOY, NOW BECOMES
NOURMFUL AND MENANCHOLIC. HIS TRAGIC TALE ENDS WHEN HE IS TORN
APART BY FRENZIED WOMEN, THE MAENADS, AS PUNISHMENT FOR HIS REFUSAL
TO JOIN THEIR REVELRY AND HIS DEVOTION TO EURYDICE.

THE STORY OF ORPHEUS ANF EURYDICE IS A TIMELESS TRAGEDY THAT EXPLORES

THEMES OF LOVE, LOSS, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN FRAILTY. ITS SETTING IN
MYTHICAL REALM ADDS AN ELEMENT OF THE SUPERNATULAR TO THE HEART-
WRENCHING NARRATIVE.

MORAL LEASON OF THE STORY

TRUST AND PATIENCE ARE CRUCIAL, AND SOMETIMES HUMAN FRAILTY CAN LEAD TO
IRREVERSIBLE CONSEQUENCES