Love in Vain

The myths of Nisus and Scylla, Echo and Narcissus, Clyte, and Hero and Leander all talk about love. In three of the four myths love is felt by just one party of the relationship and the other doesn’t feel love in return. Looking forward to achieve love, Scylla betrays her father trying to make king Minos fall for her but even after her sacrifice, Minos doesn’t accept her. She is turned into an animosity and her father into a sea-eagle and that’s why the sea-eagle is always attacking the animosity, it is looking for revenge after the betrayal of her own daughter that cost him his kingdom. In Echo and Narcissus, Echo is punished by giving her the last words of a conversation and no more. This is why even though she is in love with Narcissus, she is never able to tell him, and after he rejects her she ends up killing her. Clyte is the last myth that has no corresponded love involved. As Clyte falls in love with Apollo and he ignores her, she becomes a sun flower that follows the sun, Apollo everywhere. The only pair that had love from both of the persons in the relationship where Hero and Leander but the myth still has a tragic ending, since Hero dies.
Humans now days are exactly the same way they were many years ago. They still look for love, corresponded love in which they will be able to live happily ever after. But we are also easily offended if we discover we live in vain since the other person doesn’t loves us back. That when the human mind sometimes looses control and there are humans that end up committing crimes. We all have desperate thoughts and actions every once in a while and this leads to many misfortunes in the human race.