Till We Have Faces Essay

Many of the works of C.S. Lewis contain themes of Christianity and the relationship between man and the spiritual world. Written in the mid 1950s and towards the end of his life, Till We Have Faces is one of Lewis’ most intellectual works. Considered as his most mature work of writing, it is a retelling of the classical mythical story of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Orual, the older sister of Psyche. It prompts the reader to relate with Orual as the victim of the “gods,” then, when the veil is lifted and the faults of Orual are revealed, the reader is able to better recognize the faults of his own and those of society. Till We Have Faces opens the eyes of readers to what love should be, and to its effect upon the world.

Ultima is the towns “curandera” who is staying with the family and everyone in town thinks she is a bad witch. Antonio seems to adapt to Ultima quite quickly soon after she arrives and starts learning her way. He is seen looking up to her as if she were a mother figure and, at some point, as if she was the Virgin de Guadalupe. Antonio often finds comfort in Ultima and confides in her regarding his faith. Antonio then witnesses Ultima save his uncle when the evil twitches had done some bad witchcraft on him that nearly led him to death. Antonio then begins to see that the God he was raised to believe in is not the only one in power. Ultima comes in to place and teaches Antonio that he doesn’t have to pick one belief, rather he can identify with a little bit of both. Before Ultima’s death in the book, Antonio asks Ultima for her blessing and she is more than happy to do so because she did everything she could have to prepare him mentally to find the real

In Crystal Eastman’s Now We Can Begin, Eastman was successfully able to orchestrate the issues facing women by conveying the significance of social, political, and economical change after women gained the right to vote. Her work was so well written in the 1920’s that it is still applicable today, long after women have gained the right to vote. Additionally, Eastman used ethos, pathos, and logos to motivate and persuade the reader. By the tone and communication of her words, Eastman was able to paint an intricate picture of the issues that women faced in the 1920’s and made the reader feel involved and called to action.

The head to toe physical assessment is the first step of the nursing process and is a systemic approach of collecting objective (physical) and subjective (mental) data on the patient that will help the nurse formulate nursing diagnoses and plan patient care. It is also used to confirm or question data that was stated in the pt. previous history stated in the charts and to evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing interventions that were carried out on the patient. The main focus of the head-to-toe assessment is to focus on what the patient is currently presenting with; the patient's responses to actual or potential problems.

Her face is empty and has no meaning because it is what women was for at that time. The face of women was not important to keep the family line or the clan strong. Men wanted women who had more female features which they think can make their children healthy and strong. So then, the women’s body on the statue shows bigger breast and hips because that

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This is reasoned for its same theme of tragedy, romance and including such elements as betrayal, sacrifice and bravery. In the myth of Cupid and Psyche, the story explains how the sisters of Psyche warned her of her unseen husband and that her was a harmful beast. But as she approached him at night, she laid her eye upon the most beautiful man she's ever seen. But her candle stick wax's fell on him and injured him. As Cupid began to fly to Olympus for healing, he said to Psyche: "Love cannot live where there is no trust." (Hamilton, Pg. 100) Psyche soon regretted her naive action and did everything she could to prove herself worthy as a love to Cupid. She even went to jealous Venus and sold herself to the Goddess and endured sore trials just to be with her lover once more. But in the end, the two were united once more and created a bond that could never be broken. Tales and myths such as above can demonstrate and prove that nothing can endure more than the power of love and nothing is more beautiful than the way love is found once again no matter how many times it was broken

The discovery of oneself is a very prominent theme throughout the stories of Pleasantville and Autobiography of a Face. It’s not just the word self in these pieces of literature it’s more like discovery and how the characters in these pieces find themselves as they thought they were and in new ways. It’s about facing difficulty and challenge to see what lies ahead on the other side of the wall we call adversity. Looking at the movie Pleasantville the theme of self occurs constantly. In the beginning, in their normal world, Bud and his sister are both just trying to fit into whatever crowd they can.

She goes on a quest to find a perfect wife for her brother that can see him for what he truly is: “His sister insisted that his bride be able to see him. She promised that the first girls who proved that they could see him would become his wife” (Nolan 40). She represents the wise woman because she sees the unseen. She sees her brother and heals the girl who marries him. She is a godmother figure in the story because she takes Oochigeaskw and helps her get rid of her scars and bruises much like what Cinderella’s godmother did to her before she met the prince: “She stripped her of her high bark dress and ungainly moccasins and bathed her and massaged her body with oils so that all the scars and burns disappeared.”

The Truth of Compassion Love does not consist of pure joy, but rather, it comes with pain to those who love; to love is to sacrifice. In C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, a version of Cupid and Psyche from the point of view of Psyche’s affectionate sister,Orual,the true meaning of love is brought about. Orual adores the young Psyche and cares for her like a mother. However, when the faultless Psyche is sacrificed to the Shadow Brute, son of the goddess, Ungit (Aphrodite), Orual is dumbfounded and ruined. She could to naught to stop the terrible event from taking place.

This story also contains retaliation from the gods after someone claims to be better than them. This is shown when queen Cassiopeia claims to be more beautiful than Necrosis. Another archetype shown in this story is help from the gods. Perseus receives special items to aid him o his quest from Hermes and Athena. The theme of this story is that you can not change fate.

In a lot of ways the stories are similar to each other, but there are even more ways how they are different. One of those ways are like how the cruel relatives get punished. In both stories the villains deserve a little bit of karma throughout both books. In Ashputtle one way the relatives were punished by: “and the doves pecked out both the remaining eye.” (Straub 858) I feel that the step sister had Karma from what they did to Ashputtle for all those years. They were just jealous and cruel to her before and after she got married to the prince. So the doves pecked out both of the sister’s eyes, which the doves were suppose to represent her mother how passed away and always look out for her. So Ashputtles mother wants the best for her and she didn’t ruin her evil stepsisters to ruin day of getting married to the prince. But in Cupid and Psyche it was a little bit different. Venus did a lot of awful things to Psyche and made her parents give her up on a mountain. She also got her son to try to get her to marry someone that looked like a monster, but overall Venus’s plan backfired:”My dear son,’ said Venus “Punish that beauty.” (Benson 844) Venus got a little bit of karma when she wanted her son to make Psyche fall in love with a monster instead he stuck himself with the arrow on accident and fell in love with her. Which is bad for Venus because her son is in love with the person she despises the most Psyche. In both of the situations karmas were lots

. The Umuofia clan has an elaborate religious system largely based on their natural environment. Surrounded by dense, dark woods, the forest is both respected and feared as a chief god, the Evil Forest. The earth goddess is also revered and feared; as farmers, the Umuofia rely completely on the produce of the land and are subject to drought and flooding. The earth goddess is seen as in control of the weather and productivity of the land, so much of the clan’s social structure is set around not displeasing the earth goddess. Fear of offending the earth goddess motivates the punishment for many crimes, such as Okonkwo’s seven-year exile for killing a clansman. Achebe’s descriptions of the isolation of the Umuofia people and their complete dependence

1st wing - Daughter of the King, the most beautiful out of his 3 daughters. Venus, goddess of beauty, was jealous of her beauty Venus sent her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a old, ugly man. Cupid fell in love with Psyche instead.

In each of Psyche’s trials, she despaired to take her own life, until she was aided by a different deity. While in Hades, Psyche was given the vessel, but warned not to open it before giving it to Venus. Despite this, overwhelmed by curiosity, Psyche opened the vessel and was cast immediately into a ‘dense cloud of somnolence’ (Book VI: 21-22). Cupid found his wife sleeping, and woke her with a kiss, and gently scolds her for her curiosity, before calling upon the Breezes to carry her up to Heaven to gift the vessel to his mother. This moment is depicted in a fresco in a pendentive on the ceiling of the Loggia di Psiche, in the Villa Farnesina in Rome. Painted around 1517, the fresco, entitled Psyche Carried to Heaven by the Breezes, is part of a whole chamber by Raphael depicting the story of the two lovers, much like the Sala di Amore e Psiche in Mantua. The Loggia was planned as an imitation of a Roman villa for the Renaissance time, and is described by Pope-Hennessy as ‘rigorously classical’ (1970, pg. 169). The fresco depicts Psyche, holding the vessel containing the beauty of Proserpine in her left hand, lifted to Heaven by three Breezes (Aurae). Raphael supposedly reserved the pendentives of the ceiling for ‘scenes that took place in Heaven [or] could be transferred there’ (pg. 169). As a result, the narrative of the story on the ceiling is not complete. There was also some damage to the frescoes, and so many have been retouched over the years. In antiquity, the Aurae are the daughters of the four gods of the winds. Typically depicted as beautiful adult women, they were often mistaken for ghosts due to their ethereal appearance. It is interesting that Raphael chose to depict them in a more child-like form, closer to the Christian depiction of a cherub, much like the Master of the Die’s depiction of Cupid in his engraving, though it is possible that Raphael did this to combat the reduced free space in the pendentive. As an inverted triangle, it would have impossible to fit four full-sized figures in such a small space. By presenting the Aurae as child-sized, Raphael was able to not only include more subjects in the piece, but also present Psyche as the dominant figure in the composition. Pope-Hennessy