the house of the goddess envy

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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