The Frog King vs Cupid and Psyche??

The fairy tale The Frog King is very different from the story Cupid and Psyche. I wouldn't really think that these two stories would be one to compared. They both have different backgrounds, considering one is based on Greek mythology and the other is from the Brothers Grimm, who were from Germany. It took some thinking to figure out how to compare the two stories.


Psyche


Princess, The Frog Prince

 One similarity that I found between them is the fact that both of the main females are princesses who have sisters. They are the youngest of the siblings but also the most beautiful. In Cupid and Psyche, it states that ". . .but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise." Similarly, in The Frog Prince, it's stated that. ". . .but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, who indeed, has seen so much, marveled every time it shown upon her face."

Another similarity is the presence of an "evil" character. In Cupid and Psyche it would be Venus, who is so jealous of Psyche's beauty that she curses her love to be a monster. In The Frog Prince the evil character is the frog, at least in the young princess's mind. She isn't very fond of him until the end, when he is a beautiful man. In fact, she doesn't even want to honor the promise of companionship that she made to him. Her father makes her do so.

The parents have honorable figures in these tails. The father makes the daughter keep her promise to the frog in The Frog Prince, despite the fact that she definitely does not want to. And in Cupid and Psyche, her parents make her climb the mountain to await her fate.

There's also a happy ending in both tales. Psyche ends up married to Cupid, and the frog from The Frog Prince transforms to a young prince, who the princess is happy to marry.