Drawing some parallels between Disney’s The Sword in the Stone and greek mythology. I’m beginning to understand why the Greeks sometimes considered Eros (Love) to be a primordial god (one of the first deities to rise out of Chaos). Of these primordial deities include Darkness and Light, Night and Day, Heaven and Earth, and Mountain and Sea. Here, Love is a powerful force and a natural state of being. A phenomenon that can be embodied and personified but never truly defined. It inspires passion and sickness, and, in classical Greek literature, Love was thought to be madness sent from the gods. So I thought it was very fitting that in the The Sword in the Stone, Merlin considers Love to be the greatest force on Earth; even greater than the concept of gravity. The movie even insinuates that Love and gravity are parallel to each other, as Merlin defines gravity as “the phenomenon that any two material particles or bodies, if free to move, will be accelerated toward each other” while the two squirrels are shown racing towards one another. The movie blends the definition of gravity with the concept of Love, helping us understand why Love is such a powerful thing.