Out of the Silent Planet

Out of the Silent Planet A Take on Philosophy In Out of the Silent Planet we see the bent, the broken, and the bold and how each of them holds a standard on the value of life. The character Weston was a physicist, obsessed with the idea of living forever. Later in the book Oyarsa (a sort of spirit entity) says that Weston has been “bent by the Bent One”. Bent is the Malecandrian word for bad or evil, meaning that in the sense of an allegory Weston had been corrupted by Satan. Satan being “the Bent One”. Weston got together with his colleague Devine to travel to Malecandra, which is Mars, and try to avoid the end of Earth by jumping to another planet. In a way he was trying to outrun destruction and death instead of facing it on his own. Weston had previously been to Malecandra with Devine when we find the beginning of the story. Ransom, the main character, had been walking when he found a woman in distress waiting for her son to come…

Out of the Silent Planet:C.S Lewis Lewis as written a multitude of books , and expanding in to many genres including: Spiritual, fiction and science fiction. Out 0f the Silent Planet"(OSP), a since fiction, is the first book in Lewis' Space trilogy. Not only dose OSP have as munch allure as H G.. Wells' books, but it also contains strong moral allegories. Prejudice, Love and God's rule in your life, are just some of the many teachings hidden in "Out of the silent planet". Lewis' least know…

Religious Symbolism in Out of the Silent Planet Christian religion is relevant through characters and setting by symbolism in C.S. Lewis' book, Out of the Silent Planet. “[Thus w]hat we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent" (Nelson). Because Lewis became a Christian after being an atheist, he conceals a lot of his religious references in his writing pieces, such as Out of the Silent Planet. When…

Ransom, from his science fiction novel, Out of The Silent Planet. He proves to be virtuous throughout the story by retrieving a young man whom he did not know, by hunting an alien beast with an alien tribe, and by visiting the alien ‘leader’. Ransom’s first virtuous act was retrieving a worried mother’s son from his work. While on his walking…

of the novel. “Out of the Silent Planet.” By C.S. Lewis. 2. Where is the story set? 1/3 of the story is in London, the other portion is on the red planet of Malacadra. 3. When is the story set? It does not say, therefore I had to estimate so I would say the 1900s. 4. Place it in its’ historical context. The historical context is in its belief, belief that there are other planets out there, and that nothing is impossible. Because, Ransom at first, did not believe that there was another planet…

Virtue and Choice Is avoiding evil sufficient to make one virtuous, or must virtue be an active choice? Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis is an out of this world perception of adventures and risk-taking choices crafted by the protagonist Dr. Ransom, a kidnapped, but inquisitive college professor. Fighting to escape from his captors, Dr. Ransom finds himself in a flipped representation of his world, which deniably becomes his new home. Desperately seeking a way to return back to earth,…

That Hideous Strength In the books “Out of the Silent Planet” and “Perelandra by C.S. Lewis he uses kind of the same way of thinking. We see it also in the continuation of his trilogy, in the novel “That Hideous Strength” also written by C.S. Lewis. He uses the same writing style, one that at first I couldn’t understand. I had to go back and reread some parts to comprehend what he was saying and kind of figure out the deeper meaning of things. Throughout the book, Lewis uses a different kind of…

Out of the Silent Planet is a Science Fiction novel written by C.S. Lewis. This genre of writing holds mostly different characteristics as Lewis’ Narnia books. Differences such as direct mentioning of religion and the overall tone the novel gives. Some of the characteristics are similar such as the narrating style. A major difference in Out of the Silent Planet compared to the Narnia novels is the direct religious references. In Narnia because it is not a religious allegory there are few direct…

Out of the silent Planet is the first novel in Lewis’ overlooked space trilogy, it is a small book yet has a lot of information in it. In the opening work, we’re introduces to Dr. Ransom who falls into the clutches of two nefarious scientists, Weston and Devine. These men have constructed a space vessel, and intend to travel to the planet Malacandra, to hand Ransom over to the aliens who live there. After they land Ransom flees his human captors, but crosses paths with the same aliens he…

only to find the unsatisfying, disgusting, horrid worms that dig through the underground for eternity, The child stuffs the worms into their yellow, slimy, rotten mouth and smacks their lips together, with yellow teeth flying everywhere, guts squirting from torn, bloody creatures that suffer a sickly, awful death. The buildings. The dead, silent buildings. The brutal torture that the survivors suffered in those death traps. The echos of every screech that came from those buildings. All that…