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Carla Arnell’s main focus in her review of Till we have Faces, is how she concludes that Orual is justice, not only in her life, but also in the lives of the citizens of Glome. She see’s Orual as seeking to make things right and begins the work of trying to organize and distribute the justice more fairly throughout her city. It is not until towards the end of Orual’s life that she discovers that her quest for justice is only an illusion, based on her ill placed sense of faith and trust in the things of this world. As she is divinely made aware of the truth of her endeavor, she is changed forever and finally able to take comfort in her finally understanding of the transcendent God and a vision of justice rooted in the transcendence.
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