Till we have faces: a myth retold
Orual, being the ugly sister of Psyche in the story Till We Have Faces, is depicted as a woman who has not been given the chance to have the beauty she wants thus ending up envious of her beautiful sister. Undoubtedly, as patterned from the classical pieces of Grecian history and literary collection, this story is a comparison of tragedy and romance as well as feud that existed between the main character and her nemesis. It has been mentioned in the story that even though Orual knew how ugly she was in comparison to her sister, she never felt ill about her sister’s blessings of good looks. All she wanted was to be recognized as well as her sister was given attention to by men. She never stopped living her sister. In fact, throughout the story, the story, it has been mentioned how much she cared for her sister that even though people may have compared them, she still considers the fact that she is her sister.
Undeniably though, it could be noted that her feelings of jealousy against her sister’s beauty still existed somehow. Through the actions that she made, she gradually brought about the failure to her sister’s life. Considerably, this truth has been portrayed all throughout the story which characterized Orual as an accidental nemesis of her sister. Understandably, this situation has been further developed by the character as a depiction of her personal perceptions of her relative role as the sister of a lovely woman. She thought that protecting her sister would be a grave need because of her beauty. This though has resulted to the misfortunes of her sister.
Upon realization of what she has done, she opted to change everything so as to be able to create a possible chance for herself to make amends with the shortcomings that she has incurred against her sister. To do so, she managed to recall everything she has done and tried to mend every piece of misfortune that she has caused her sister. Through her book, she tries to relate every situation that she and her sister has undergone and how she was involved in the different misfortunes that her sister experienced. Although what she has done before may have seemed irreversible and hard to recover from, she made it a point that she does not end the writing neither would she let her life go until the book is entirely finished.
It is through her writing that she realized the real source of her emotional situation. She was able to decipher the fact that the protection she wanted to give her sister was more of a shield of possession and that she was not at all envious of her sister’s beauty, but she was jealous of her husband’s love for her. She apparently has developed that love for Cupid which she does not know if she could allow her sister enjoy the attention and the affection that he gives her as his wife.
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