In Glome, they are suffering from drought, plague and fever. Ungit's pastor decided that they had to find a cursed person. He also said that "barbarians were seen again", so they must offer "curses" to the devastated people. When the king heard this, he was afraid of his life, but he offered one of three daughters without problems. Then the priest told him that he was "uncursed", but because of her "cursed", his youngest girl, psychedelic will be offered.
The first part of the book was written from the point of view of Psyche's sister Orual as a result of the gods. The story takes place in the imaginary kingdom of Glome, the original city state sometimes touched by the Greek Greek word of civilization. In the second part of the book, the narrator experiences a change in thinking (Lewis will use the word of conversion), that her first accusation was contaminated by her own failure and disadvantages, and God deeply I understood that it existed in human life.
Luis described Cupid and Psyche's love story in detail. The story until having a face will occur in the imaginary former Christian country, Gromme. People there are worshiping a strong pagan goddess Ungit, "Greek is called Aphrodite" (TWHF 1). The world of Glome is carefully balanced with elements of myths and fictional historical facts. A wonderful atmosphere was created by the myth of the power of Ungit. She is an "incredible" person who fears people. As Rui reminds us, it's incredibly wonderful. On the evening of the second queen's Psyche birthday, the family better understood the existence of Ungit. Every kind of ceremony is to ease the wrath of God that could bring unhappy things to them.
It began with Orual's frustration as an old lady suffering from the injustices of the gods. She is ugly, but after her mother died, her father, the King of Glome, remarried, she got a beautiful sister Istra, she likes her own daughter, and she Psyche known for her Greek version in the novel. Because the soul is so beautiful, the people of Glome began to be sacrificed for her goddess. The Queen 's goddess, a powerful figure of the kingdom, told the king that the various plague kingdoms were the result of Ungit, so Psyche was sent to the invisible "mountain god" as a human sacrifice. Orche is planning to save Psyche, but he is sick and can not stop anything