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What is happiness? There exists many different opinions and scientific studies proving that people have happiness in their life is a choice in life. However, what one person finds happiness in may bring sadness and sorrow to another. Some people only value greed and money, while others may find happiness in nature and being able to live another day. There seems to be no universal criteria to define what exactly happiness is.

‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. The second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two precepts hang all the law and the prophets’ (Mathew 22.37, 38, 39, 40). ‘By this all men know that they are my disciples, if ye have love one to another’ (John 13.35) …’He who loveth God loveth his brother also’ (1 John 4.21) …’If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar’ (1 John 4.20) …The first thing that takes our attention is the saying of Jesus, ‘Thou shalt love,’ etc. (501-2)

The beautiful love between the two lasted through Orual and Psyches younger years, quickly taking a turn for when Psyche decided she wanted to grow up a little. Orual and Psyche's relationship started to dwindle when Psyche became known as a “goddess”. Psyche went into the town to heal people, but in return seemed to be getting pale and sick herself. Driven by jealousy Orual became worried about Psyche’s health and wants her to stop interacting with the town people, in fear that she would only grow more ill. Matters worsen for their relationship when Psyche began to be blamed for the plague, “I knew what would come of all that touchings and blessing, Fine goings on indeed! The plague’s worse than ever it was. There were a hundred died yesterday, the smith's wife’s brother-in-law tells me. They say the touchings didn’t heal the fever but gave it” (37). Though the two seem to have a steady relationship this is the beginning of change for Psyche. Being so used to having positive feedback and love from everyone, when she finally does not she starts to question herself. Once Psyche is put up for sacrifice Orual starts to lose her mind.

Humanity was originally created in the likeness of God, to walk in his presence; they were made distinctly human with the ability to reason. Humanity knows love because they are made of love, in the image of God who is love. (1 John 4:16) After the Fall, humans are no longer pure enough to walk in His presence and are punished for the sins they have committed. The purpose of humankind changes from caring for the earth and all its inhabitants; to spreading the word of the Lord. The Christian Worldview recognizes that humankind is sinful by nature because Adam and Eve, God in his graciousness sent His only son to die on the cross to atone for those sins.

The Harper Collins definition is, “The chief purpose of love is to bring one’s neighbor into communion with God. True self-love and love for God are coincident or coextensive.” This definition says that to love others you have to bring others to God, just as St. Francis of Assisi said, “Preach the gospel at all times. When

The secular saint, like the hero saint, is motivated by love. While Augustine tells us that the hero saint is moved by love for God, the secular saint as the humanist thinkers of our modern age assert is moved by love for self and/or fellow man. Thus, love appears to be at the heart of the meaning of life. Throughout history love has been given many different names. For the pagan Greeks, there was eros (erotic or sexual love), agape (spiritual love), and phileos (a kind of platonic, friendly love). For the Christians, love was best described as caritas charity (a selfless love of God and neighbor). The modern world, which turned in a sense away from the Christian concept of reality, adopted a more ego-centric idea of love of love that was not selfless but selfish.

Wright concisely states, “Love is the language they speak in God’s world, and we are summoned to learn it against the day when God’s world and ours will be brought together... Love is not a “duty,” even our highest duty. It is our destiny”

As the popular saying goes: if you love something, set it free. This is used as a test of sorts to find out if love is true love. This distinction between different kinds of love is important because sometimes love can hurt everyone that is involved. Artists choose many methods to get this idea across in their works. One of them, C.S. Lewis, chose to convey this message using beauty and justice.

     Strangely, though, Psyche relates to Orual only days before the sacrifice that she has always felt a certain vague longing for the Grey Mountain, even for the holy Shadowbrute For as long as she can remember, Psyche has felt herself somehow destined for a land beyond the Grey Mountain, far from Glome. In fact, she has never felt truly at home in Glome. This aspect of religious belief - longing for another world- is once used by Lewis elsewhere as proof that humankind was created for another world. Orual, in typical fashion, interprets Psyche's longing for the far kingdom as a threat against their own relationship, giving in to the omnipresent urge to selfish, and self-centered, love. "'Ah Psyche,' I said. 'Have I made you so little happy as that?' 'No, no, no,' she said. 'You don't understand…It was when I was the happiest that I longed you most…Somewhere else there must be more of it. Everything seemed to be saying, Psyche, come! But I couldn't (not yet) come and I didn't know where I was to come to…I felt like a bird in a cage when the other birds of its kind are flying home.'" (TWHF, pg. 74)

No emotion has such universal meaning as love. It is an integral part of the human condition. Love is the basis for by which all other emotions can be gauged. Friendship and even grief are steeped in love. Love is so central to our lives that it is fitting and proper that it should be the topic of so much discussion. Every culture and every writer has some commentary or evaluation of love. The New Testament has its share of love commentary. The entire basis of the Christian tradition is God's love for humanity. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son." (John 3:6) Jesus preached a great deal about love of neighbor, love of God and even love of enemies. (Matt 5:44) Shakespeare's Biblical knowledge is well known and he

Psychodynamic Approach Psychodynamic thinking is unconscious human behavior. This behavior is the relationship between different parts of the mind based on a human’s pervious experiences. In a person’s early years of childhood, they create a distinctive yet unconscious way for regulating their emotions. As a child grown, these unconscious decisions become part of a developing brain’s neuronal structure and brain chemistry and are carried and shown throughout a person’s life (Cox, Bachkirova, & Clutterbuck, 2014).

Thus, the aforementioned rash judgement lasts a short time in the reader’s mind, as C.S. Lewis quickly displays the complexity of Orual’s thought process leading up to these immoral actions. One of the first things that Lewis shows the reader is Orual’s immense love for her sister. This love is so intense, that “from the time...Psyche is born, Orual loses herself in her loving and caring for Psyche” (Sauders 3). Therefore, she is very distraught over the alleged death of her beloved sister. Thus, when she sees Psyche, whom she loves so much, alive and well in the edenic valley, a rush of powerful and different emotions floods Orual’s heart. With these strong and contradicting emotions of worry and relief fluttering within Orual and competing for her attention, it becomes clear to the reader that it was Orual, not Psyche, who was not in her right mind. With this knowledge, the reader is able to understand, and even sympathize with Orual; the sympathy most likely stemming from one’s remembrance of their experience losing someone dear to him or her and the resulting, almost selfish, desire for said person. Thus, the reader is able to empathize with Orual’s selfish desire to have all of her sister’s love to herself because he or she would probably have wanted the same thing as Orual if he or she was faced with a situation such as

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To answer this question, we need to go the creation of man. When God breathed into Adam, he became a living being (Genesis 2:7). He not only became alive, he also received the very nature of God. Initially, the spirit of Adam had some of the characteristics of God. Adam was made in the likeness of God. Hence, Adam became a being that had the ability to love.