Jealousy
In Till We Have Face, Orual is very consistently jealous of her sister Psyche for her beauty. Orual is not beautiful, and this lack of self-esteem is possibly what lead to the jealousy. She is the Queen of Glome, yet she is unmarried and without children. He two sisters are both beautiful and have the greatest potential to be useful in marriages to their father, who is a harsh and cruel man. All that Orual seemed to have was Psyche, and once Psyche was married to a god, she felt alone, and she even blamed the gods who she had no belief or trust in. She could no longer control or use Psyche to her advantage, so she made her complaints loud and clear. This love possibly started out as a true love, but her low self-esteem and jealousy caused this love to be possessive and abusive which makes it no love at all. This is even seen when she is jealous of Bardia’s wife and children who he has to go home to. She wanted him as her own husband without thought to what he could have wanted.
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