As I recalled Orual's actions to what got her sister in trouble it reminded me of Digory's actions that nearly got him in trouble as well. In The Magician's Newphew, Digory decides to ring a bell which then brings back to life an evil witch full of destruction. It was Diogry's curiosity that ends up causing him to do something that he should have never done.
Similarly to Digory, it is also the curiosity of Orual that gets her in trouble. Because she is so curious of whom her sister is with at night and has several different assumptions, her curiosity eventually takes over and she selfishly talks her sister into doing something that she too never should have done.
I see curiosity as a good and a bad thing. It is something that sits within everyone's soul. I see it as a good thing in the way that it sparks adventure. Without curiosity the adventure in life could be very dim because one would never have any thoughts of what something could be. That is why I see the good in curiosity.
However, as both characters revealed, curiosity can also be bad. Sometimes it is necessary and causes one to become anxious. Their anxiety can then take them down a darker path, one that involves selfishness in which they lose the vision of their project.
Curiosity can be both bad and good depending on just how one is able to use it. How will you?
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