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What still makes mythology the most frequently visited source by literature today? Is it because they are timeless tales of deciphered wisdom about human? Or is it because they are still able to tell more about human and human nature than all the advancements technology and science brought to our modern age? Whatever the answer is, it is hard to say. However, it is certain that mythology can be perceived in more shapes in literature today than Proteus in Greek Mythology. This paper analyses C. S. Lewis’s mythological novel Till We Have Faces (1956) which rewrites Apuleius’s myth of Cupid and Psyche within a quintessential framework that amalgamates universality and totality of mythology and subjectivity and immediacy of modern novel. The purpose is to demonstrate that in Lewis’ quintessential narration, Orual’s subjective quest for self-identity is universalized by the prefiguring pattern of the Cupid and Psyche myth while the myth’s allegorical depth is turned into an actual experience over Orual’s mythological quest as she searches for self-completeness and divine presence. Consequently, in order to find the divine, she has to find her self, and in order to find her self, she has to primarily elude from all the external effects and find her own true voice, her own true face, and thus her own true self.

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