Narcissus

=**ECHO & NARCISSUS**=
 * ALLUSION:**
 * **The type of allusion of narcisuss is mythological**


 * BACKGROUND:**
 * **The background of this story is about a beautiful son of the river god name Narcissus. All the women full in love with him but he refused love and the Tiresias the seer told Narcissus parents that the Narcissus "would live to an old age if it did not look at itself". A women name Echo full in love with Narcissus but Narcissus rejected her so Nemesis heard the rejected that Narcissus did, Nemesis make Narcissus to full in love with him own reflection. Narcissus was in the woods and he saw his reflection of the pond and he sat by the pond looking at his reflection and let himself to die. When people prapared his funera they could not find his body insted found the flower that today bears his name. It is told that Narcissus still keps gazing on his image in the water of the river styx, in the underworld.**


 * REPRESENTS:**
 * **Narcissus was a handsom man, love by many girls but he always turn them down ,he died by apond cause he was in love with him self. The god punished himcause he broke echo heart. The allusion represent that hes crazy cause he felt in love with him self stare at himself till he die.**


 * EXAMPLE:[[image:http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/gallery/dose_movies_princes/080514_dp_charming.jpg width="245" height="251" align="right"]]**
 * **For example of this allusion is Prince Charming for Shrek 2 the movie. Prince Charming is a characterized as a selfish and all the girls love him just like Narcissus and girls see him like a beautiful men.**


 * REPRESENTS:**
 * **Masculine beauty, Conceit, Egotism, Vanity**

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 * WEB SOURCES:**
 * "Narcissus." //Encyclopedia Mythica// from Encyclopedia Mythica Online.


 * BOOK:**
 * Urdang, Laurence, and Frederick G. Ruffner. //Allusions: Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical : a Thematic Dictionary//. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1982. Print.