1.
I was
reading an article about Till We Have
Faces and suggested that the unchecked female was the force of destruction
in Lewis’s novel. Saying that it is because Orual as an older sister and a
queen and Ungit as goddess all become wrapped in one by the end. Orual’s realization
of her selfish love is not made until the end, when she sees that her love only
serves to devour and destroy the lives of the people who surround her. The article
suggested that perhaps the tragedy of Orual’s love was so impactful because she
had no complementary masculine force to balance her out or to keep her in
check, concerning her style of love. Without anyone to essential reflect her
love off of, Orual takes a long time to truly learn and see a true glimpse of
herself and the destructiveness and the motives behind her “love” for Psyche. I
wonder than, did Lewis believe this as well, did he think a masculine force was
needed and would have prevented Orual from asserting this selfish love. Was his
view of women that they love selfishly, for their own gain and not just for the
simple reasoning of loving another? In the Space Trilogy, Ransom had no
complementary female force, an absence of such and his ability to accomplish
his missions makes me wonder if Lewis held a belief that a single woman needs a
man in her life to keep her in line and to check her, but that a single man on
his own is capable of great things and is able to take a stand. Lewis was a
single man for a while and only married when he felt he met a woman, Joy, an
intellectual equal as opposed to someone subservient to him. I want to look
more into his view of women and see if any of this has any support for it.
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