In "Til We Have Faces", I thought that it was interesting that the Queen never really stopped to think about here journey to where she is now. So when she found the temple to Psyche by accident, she became so upset at the idea that the priest had the story wrong that she went back to her country at a maddening pace. Just to get there and write this book.
She became driven to make herself believe that there had been no other way in what happened to Psyche, and that it wasn't her fault. That really she had be trying to save Psyche from her maddened state of mind.
She became driven to make herself believe that there had been no other way in what happened to Psyche, and that it wasn't her fault. That really she had be trying to save Psyche from her maddened state of mind.
posted by Ella at 5:00 PM
3 Comments:
good point. that was exactly why i never liked the queen (or orual rather) because she never admitted she was wrong. it was always someone elses fault or pysches problem and she had to be saved. it was never that orual was jealous, she was always right.
I wonder how evident this same phenomena would be were we to write our own stories. It is not very often that people are honest, especially with themselves. I do not think that if I were truly to understand how many terrible things have happened because of me in my life that I would be able to cope with this knowledge. Perhaps Orual was not able to admit that she was at fault. Perhaps she could not live with the realization of her own guilt.
The realization of selfishness is very repulsive, we can see that in Orual. It takes true humility to admit one is truly wrong. If we get down to the nitty gritty, by condemning Orual's actions we condemn ourselves, and because of this we are faced with the dillema of how to change. I liked Orual's character because she represents a reality we are often ignorant of. The reality of how coercive our own minds can be!
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