Life Experience on Malacandra: The Important Role of Shaping the View of Fear and Death
Birth, growth, illness, and death are the four compulsory stages of life. Death is the most mysterious, and it has always attracted and frightened people among those phases of life. Emotions and the attitudes concerning death can be described as a directly proportional relationship in people’s life. These sentiments include fear, belongingness, and burdensomeness. People are scared about death because nobody in the world knows when will it come and what will be happened after it. They have different opinions on death and these can be changed after exploring different life experiences. Some of them try to escape death by various ways because of fear, while …show more content…
After finding out the real purpose of being kidnapped to Malacandra, Dr. Ransom starts his adventure to find Oyarsa. Oyarsa is the greatest eldila on Malacandra, which is acted as a ruler. During the conversation of Dr. Ransom and Oyarsa, he knows more about the culture and the viewpoint of death. Oyarsa believes death will definitely come to everyone, but no one can predict the time. Although the hrossa face death as a wonderful transformation, the three dead hrossa is killed by Weston and Devine. They do not accept the death by killing or any violent actions. Oyarsa shows his anger by questioning “Why have you killed my hnau?” (Lewis, 83) This shows that their attitude toward death should be peaceful and natural. Apart from that, Dr. Ransom changes his own view of fear and death by collecting various analysis from others. Oyarsa uses a third person perspective to explain the whole adventure that Dr. Ransom has gone through, and this provides a clear image for him. During the journey, Dr. Ransom is scared at first because he thinks everywhere is filled with unknown and danger, so the feeling of fear has been raised and the idea of suicide has brought up too. As he is used to Malacandra and makes friends with the hross, he feels more comfortable and fear has reduced. Also, he learns different perspectives of fear and death. Combining different cultures, people can build up their own attitudes as “Nothing could be more disgusting than the one impression; nothing more delightful than the other. It all depended on the point of view” (Lewis, 34). Every object in the world is a polyhedron, it all depends on a person’s standpoint. Throughout the conversation, Dr. Ransom learns to think inversely by looking from other angle, which his attitude towards death has also changed from being frightened to
Birth, growth, illness, and death are the four compulsory stages of life. Death is the most mysterious, and it has always attracted and frightened people among those phases of life. Emotions and the attitudes concerning death can be described as a directly proportional relationship in people’s life. These sentiments include fear, belongingness, and burdensomeness. People are scared about death because nobody in the world knows when will it come and what will be happened after it. They have different opinions on death and these can be changed after exploring different life experiences. Some of them try to escape death by various ways because of fear, while …show more content…
After finding out the real purpose of being kidnapped to Malacandra, Dr. Ransom starts his adventure to find Oyarsa. Oyarsa is the greatest eldila on Malacandra, which is acted as a ruler. During the conversation of Dr. Ransom and Oyarsa, he knows more about the culture and the viewpoint of death. Oyarsa believes death will definitely come to everyone, but no one can predict the time. Although the hrossa face death as a wonderful transformation, the three dead hrossa is killed by Weston and Devine. They do not accept the death by killing or any violent actions. Oyarsa shows his anger by questioning “Why have you killed my hnau?” (Lewis, 83) This shows that their attitude toward death should be peaceful and natural. Apart from that, Dr. Ransom changes his own view of fear and death by collecting various analysis from others. Oyarsa uses a third person perspective to explain the whole adventure that Dr. Ransom has gone through, and this provides a clear image for him. During the journey, Dr. Ransom is scared at first because he thinks everywhere is filled with unknown and danger, so the feeling of fear has been raised and the idea of suicide has brought up too. As he is used to Malacandra and makes friends with the hross, he feels more comfortable and fear has reduced. Also, he learns different perspectives of fear and death. Combining different cultures, people can build up their own attitudes as “Nothing could be more disgusting than the one impression; nothing more delightful than the other. It all depended on the point of view” (Lewis, 34). Every object in the world is a polyhedron, it all depends on a person’s standpoint. Throughout the conversation, Dr. Ransom learns to think inversely by looking from other angle, which his attitude towards death has also changed from being frightened to