Till We Have Faces

Lewis wrote Till We Have Faces because he didn't think that the stories of Cupid and Psyche were told with the utmost truth in their actions. I believe there is a deep parallel between how Orual is angry with the gods because of the misspelling of the story and how man reacts to God when he believes his story is being told in the wrong manner. Orual saw the story of her sister, Istra or Psyche, play out, but heard it from a priest in a totally different way. This misunderstanding of what truly happened infuriated her, so she decided to write and complain to the gods for this. I think this helps depict man in a way, too. We see life in a certain manner, but the God of all life more than likely sees it a little differently than us-- He sees different purposes to trials, to successes, etc., than what we may see. When something goes a little differently than we believe it should, or happened to experience in the past, we begin to bargain and petition with God. Past experience with "love", in movies and television shows, depict love as being a "happily ever after" experience for man. However, when man gets deeper into what "love" really is, it shows to be more than just an emotion. It shows that when love is truly there, it causes a man to die to himself for the sake of another individual. Love requires pain, and talking through things that may hurt and may get at man's core being, but that is what love is. And when man experiences this for the first time, it differs from what our believed experience should be. Therefore, we begin to discuss it with God as if we know what love should really look like.