Till We Have Faces was published in 1956. This novel contains many of the ideas about love and their perversions. Clearly, several of the characters in the novel personify the various types of love and their perversions, and Lewis must have had these representations in mind when he finally collected all his ideas about love all together. An examination of Till We Have Faces is a way to better understand one of the many themes. In the novel, Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis presents the story of three sisters-Redival, Orual, and Psyche-princesses in the kingdom of Glome. One of the themes is Orual’s attempt to make the gods speak up and vindicate themselves. Another is the “the quest for self-knowledge”. While these themes are definitely in the novel, I believe the central theme has to do with love; reactions to love, examples of love, and perversions of love. While the emphasis of the novel is on Orual because she tells the story, much can be learned from examining Redival, Psyche, and the Fox. Redival serves as an example of a person who perverts romantic love into a religion of sorts. Redival the embodiment of perverted love, supercilious and full of lust. Because of her selfishness and desire for pleasure, she has no room in her life for affection for her sisters or others around her. Tarin, one of the guards in the castle, says, “She was lonely Oh yes, yes, very lonely She used to say, ‘First of all Orual loved me much; then the Fox came and he loved me little, then the baby came and she loved me not at all.’” So part of Redival’s problem could be blamed on Orual’s lack of response to her need for love. Orual is the most complex character in the novel. She is so physically ugly that the reader cannot help but feel sympathy for Orual-Orual gives the impression that she really loves Psyche, when she says that Psyche is “the beginning of all my joys” However, when Psyche is chosen by the priest to become the offe