In English today, we have the word narcissistic derived from the name Narcissus. The defintion of the word narcissistic is - peo
ple have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration. Which of the following lines from the myth shows how the word narcissistic could have developed from the character of Narcissus?
A
"Here Narcissus, hot and tired from the hunt, paused to take refreshment."
B
"No other beauty upon the earth could rival this, and so here Narcissus stayed, gazing with irrepressible yearning after his own image."
C
"He did not know that the face he saw beneath the water was not real, had no life of its own"
D
"Perhaps out of pity or perhaps out of scorn, as a blessing or a curse, they transformed this beautiful young man into a flower"
I believe that people are drawn to fiction because it is an escape for then its a different reality that they can go to, to escape the real one like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Hobbit they are all fictional and people can use them to escape this reality to a better one in their mind.
