C. S. Lewis

Fairytales help children overcome their anxiety. The tales bring forth the inner fears of children in an almost tangibility, giving them form in the witches, the wolves, the ogres and any situation that stands in the way of the heroes or heroines. The psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, author of The Uses of Enchantment, declares that because the dark aspects of life are unavoidable and fairytales can present a confrontation to the inner fears of children (8). For instance, the story “Three Feathers”…

C.S. Lewis writes, in his essay titles We Have No "Right To Happiness," on pages 747 to 750, about an encounter he had with his neighbor named Clare and the thoughts he had afterward. Lewis describes a situation in which two people divorced their partners in order to marry each other, "Mr. A" and "Mrs. B." After entertaining different definitions of a human right and applying them to the event, Lewis concluded that the right his neighbor truly meant to describe was the right to, as he called it,…

believe things just because their teacher told them that is the truth. In chapter 5 of Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis talks about believing based on authority and how this belief relates to the everyday world and the faith. Lewis states that “ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority” (62). When learning, often times the actual object cannot be seen or felt. Lewis used the example that he had never been to New York so in his eyes, New York may not exist. However, he…

Out of the Silent Planet is a Science Fiction novel written by C.S. Lewis. This genre of writing holds mostly different characteristics as Lewis’ Narnia books. Differences such as direct mentioning of religion and the overall tone the novel gives. Some of the characteristics are similar such as the narrating style. A major difference in Out of the Silent Planet compared to the Narnia novels is the direct religious references. In Narnia because it is not a religious allegory there are few direct…

Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud This is a synopsis of the address “The Question of God : C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud” by Armand Nicholi, M.D., Jr., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as a founding board member of the Family Research Council and the editor and co-author of The Harvard Guide to Psychiatry (3rd Edition, 1999). Dr. Nicholi has taught a course on Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis at Harvard for more…

drawn out by the two often contradict each other. In Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, Orual 's reasoning stands against the gods ' in what she believes to be an injustice. During the duration of the novel the two assessments are developed and contrasted, and in the end one is clearly a more accurate representation of justice. C.S. Lewis shows his beliefs concerning human 's judgement of what justice is through Orual 's relationship with it in his novel Till We Have Faces. Although…

Revered as the culmination of all his work, C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces is the recipient of scholars’ praise and the author’s favoritism. Scholars praise Lewis for his ability to transform a narrow classical myth into a universally applicable story. While this universality owes itself to the fictitious nature of the novel, it is also rooted in the theme of love. In order to fully elucidate the concept of love as he understood it, Lewis published The Four Loves. He first distinguishes between…

The book Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis is based on myths. To be able to determine how this text is a myth, one must look at a specific element in particular. The element of myth that is brought up numerous times in the book is the struggle with the quest of the meaning of life. This element occurs when a character has trouble understanding what is the meaning of life and goes on a journey to figure it out. They have a hard time choosing if they should believe in a higher power (god). The…

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis contains Themes and symbolic events that occur several times during the novel. Many of them revolving around Love and Relationships. A story of a princess, named Orual, who writes a complaint towards the Gods. She feels an immense responsibility to be both the fatherly and motherly role model to her youngest step-sister, Psyche. While, she must struggle with her father, King Trom, and living with misfortune in the kingdom, she has conflicted feelings of love…

Lewis was a writer and was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, United Kingdom. He died January 14, 1898 in Guilford, United Kingdom. Some poems that Lewis wrote are Jabberwocky,The Hunting of the Snark, and The Walrus and the Carpenter. Some people that influenced Lewis Carroll are Alice Liddell and Hans Christian Andersen. Lewis wrote¨ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland¨ and ¨Through the Looking-Glass.¨ He went to school at Christ Church (Oxford) Rugby School, Richmond School, Yorkshire. At…