1.
One thing
I really love about Lewis’s Till We Have
Faces is that the protagonist is a female. Oural’s selfish love, especially
for Psyche, shows how a negative love can be suffocating and disastrous for the
both the one being love and the one loving. Oural views her love for her sister
Psyche as selfless; however, it is that very love that in reality is a selfish
love. She does not understand why pain and tragedy must result from this selfless
love she believes she is pouring out on her sister. This deception of Orual, of
herself, causes her to become bitter and to bring a complaint against the gods.
She goes so far as to deceive her own self of her motives for loving her sister
and it is apparent that these motives are not selfless at all, rather they are
motives enticed by jealousy and possessiveness. Such a love I think is a love
that only cares what it can get out of it, rather than just loving to love the
other person. How is Oural deceived by such things, I would think it would be
obvious and decipherable to figure out that tragedies and pain are caused by
one’s own actions when there is such a clear link between the two. Oural
eventually comes to this realization, but why does it take so long for such a
revelation to be made clear to her. Isn’t it more absurd to believe that powers
are conspiring against you than it is to believe that it is the result of one’s
own actions that bring about tragedy and pain many times in one’s life. I know
it may take reflection to come to this realization, but Oural has to go through
and cause so much pain because she is unwilling and fails to see the impact of
her selfish motives in her love for Psyche.
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