In "Until We Have faces" I thought that Orual reminded me a little more of the Brute, or at least a combination of him and Unget. This mostly happens because of the comparison that I drew from the comparison in the second book when Orual is talking to Bardia's wife about Bardia's death. She accuses her of being like the brute and says, "They say the loving and the devouring are the same thing" She also talks about how much she loved her husband and how selfesh Orual was to take him away from her. Orual's selfishness with Bardia caused his wife so much pain. This sort of reminded me of when Orual showed her selfishness before with Psyche, Oruals selfishness of Psyche was what ended up causing her so much strife. And the interesting part here is that Orual called this all love. All of her selfish actions were acts of love to her.
Are humans capable of real perfect love, or does every thing that we call love have a small motive behind it, usually a selfish one? Are we like Orual and when we think we are sacrificing something, but we are really just doing it for ourselves? When we give to charity, is it because we truly are concerend about others or is it to get the good feeling inside? When two people are in love is it selfless, or do we love people to get something out of it? These are questions that this story brought up to me and made me look at my relationships. Lets see what you folks think.
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