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“'You are wiser than you were, King Midas!” said the stranger, looking seriously at him. “Your own heart, I perceive, has not been entirely changed from flesh to gold. Were it so, your case would indeed be desperate. But you appear to be still capable of understanding that the commonest things, such as lie within everybody’s grasp, are more valuable than the riches which so many mortals sigh and struggle after. Tell me, now, do you sincerely desire to rid yourself of this Golden Touch?'

'It is hateful to me!' replied Midas."

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The plot adds to the theme because if the series of events that led to King Midas accidentally turned his daughter into gold, then the moral of how greed can be a disaster would not have been a disaster.

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King Midas' palace adds to the theme by stressing King Midas' greed. He already has a large palace to himself, along with a garden and a treasure room. But still he wants more.

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King Midas was very greedy, and because of this he accidentally turned his daughter, Marygold into gold. His characterization of being greedy caused the theme because he accidentally incapacitated his daughter.

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The theme is that greed can be dangerous.

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"King Midas hastened back to the palace; and, I suppose, the servants knew not what to make of it when they saw their royal master so carefully bringing home an earthen pitcher of water."(Paragraph 85)

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"Wise King Midas was so exalted by his good fortune, that the palace seemed not sufficiently spacious to contain him."(Paragraph 33)

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"He made it his custom, therefore, to pass a large portion of every day in a dark and dreary apartment, underground, at the basement of his palace."(Paragraph 4)

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The setting is King Midas' palace in ancient Greece.

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Side character in the story, His intentions are unclear, but he appears to grant King Midas' wish to have the Golden Touch. The stranger ends up reversing King Midas' ability when he realizes how greedy he was after just turning Marygold to gold.

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Side character in the story, King Midas' daughter. She was turned to gold by her father and taught him a lesson about the dangers of greed as a result. She is the one thing that King Midas loves just as much as gold

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The main character within the story. He is greedy for gold, and this greed leads to him having the ability to turn things into gold by touch. He learns his lesson after he accidentally turns his daughter into gold, realizing he does not need gold to have a better life