All you need is love?

Can there ever be too much of love in something?

I would like to go back to the book Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, a book review that I made earlier in this blog about the story. After discussing it in class I realized there was more depth to the story than I believed there to be.

There is the whole topic of faith and how one is to view it and whether or not one should be bullied into not believing their true faith, but that bastard Lewis added so much more than just a Christian viewpoint.

He talked about love throughout the entire book and I was completely oblivious to it.

For one, you see the love that Orual the sister, has for her younger and more beautiful sister, Psyche. Possibly like me, you have seen the love as something along the lines of a maternal love, never truly seeing that this love that she has for her sister is a possessive type of love. Throughout the book you see the adoration Orual had for her sister and it is understandable, she is a true beauty. But it got to the point in which Orual would claim she was doing what she did it of love for her sister.

Throughout the rest of the book (this claim being that she has done all she did for the love of Psyche), you see the veil that Orual covered herself with slowly begin to come off her face, truly distinguishing that she in fact isn't just ugly on the outside, but on the inside as well. And that one "good thing" that she kept saying she did for Psyche, that last piece of herself to hold onto her "good" demeanor is the last thing she realizes before it comes off. She was naturally ugly inside and out.

I couldn't help but look at the book from a different standpoint. There is no going back to thinking that Orual was just bad for breaking her sisters belief. It extends to much more.

It extends to the point of love, and how far one will claim to have done what they did for love, something that neither sister could have believed.

A great read that is often overlooked by C.S. Lewis fans, mainly because it was his last piece of work. And dedicated to his wife no doubt.