In all love, there are winners and losers. Such is the case with this love story from ancient Greece. In a way, the love that the beautiful boy, Adonais, developed for himself was not at all shallower than the love that Venus had for him. The only difference is that Venus’s love for him is one that any society can tolerate and accept, even though there is a slight difference in status and position between the two. But Adonais’ fervent love for himself is difficult to be understood. So much so, that his behavior was later called “narcissism”, and in psychological studies it was classified as a pathology. This is very unfair to the beautiful boy himself. Because all love, as long as it is love, should not be cold or even disdain.
The oblivious Venus meets the impassive, hard-hearted Adonais, and from her point of view it is she who loves the wrong person, but what can she do? But what could she do? There is no right or wrong in love, she just loved him, there was no way out. Venus used all the means at her disposal, and the description of lust in the story makes us men and women today feel a little bit hot, but don’t get me wrong, this is the manifestation of Venus’s love for him, and it has nothing to do with pornography. This story also expands a broader space for our later love literature. In a sense, Adonais loved not himself, but a third party, in a broader sense, from then on all the literature about love triangles, and even quadrangular, pentagonal love is from a story called “Venus and Adonais”.
Conclusion: Wishful love is always accompanied by the rapid destruction of one person and the slow destruction of the other.