Perelandra (book)

Perelandra is the second novel in the Space Trilogy by the British writer C.S. Lewis. The story was originally published as Perelandra (1943), and later also as Voyage to Venus (1953); It was first published in Dutch as voyage to Venus (1961) and also in 2006 as Perelandra. The book is preceded by the novels first and trilogy concludes with Thulcandra . ==Story[ Edit] == Ransom gets from the Oyarsa of novels first instructed to to travel to Perelandra (Venus). Ransom will in a white, on ice are brought to the young planet-like box. The writer has the task to close the coffin and a year later to get back on his adventures, whereupon Ransom to return the Ransoms writer and Humphrey tells.

Ransom comes on Perelandra into the ocean and he having a lot of trouble on a floating island comes ashore. The planet exists, it appears to him, entirely of water with floating islands-but there is, as it turns out later, one fixed island. After several days on the Islands (in which he learns to walk on the wavy ground), he meets the Green wife, the ' Eva ' of the first human couple of Perelandra. At the same time a space ship lands his rival Weston, whose soul has been sold to the Oyarsa of Earth-Satan. Ransom is frightened to the conclusion that he sent to Perelandra to prevent a new fall . In different conversations and monologues in Weston's body tries to seduce the woman to huizende Satan on the one hand, disobedience, and Ransom on the other hand, to faith and fortitude. The Green Woman shall contain among other things for the question why it is forbidden for her to spend the night on the Mainland. Ransom wants at all costs avoid the Satan deceives the Green Woman. ==Wallpaper[ Edit] == Perelandra is bovennatuurlijker and thus less scientific than the first book in the trilogy, to see novels first, among other things, is to space ships. Where Ransom in the first book still in a rocket manufactured by scientists made his trip to Mars, he travels in the second part in a Crystal coffin propelled into space by angels. In The Notion Club Papers of j. r. r. Tolkien, in which the book is discussed briefly, calls one of the club members this implausible. That Lewis did is probably due to the larger theological perspective in which the story takes place. This makes Perelandra more poetry (poetic) than science fiction (scientific) to name a few. [1]

C.S. Lewis already had a picture of a planet with floating islands on an Ocean before he wrote the story Perelandra . As with the Chronicles of Narnia came his story on following a picture, in which he could give the main character a suitable place. [2]  The moral in the story came into being so as a by-product of his imagination. [3]  the book begins in a special way: from the I-perspective Lewis writes about a meeting with Ransom.From this same perspective he was in Novels with the last chapter ended. This shows the whole story a retelling of what Ransom has been through and I-has told to the person. This form is not unusual in themedieval literature (among other Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland made here already using), but Lewis ' form here is more akin to Victorian use, such as H. Rider Haggard in She-A History of Adventure(1887). Lewis ' I-person is not quite compare to the I-person Haggard, but much stronger than with the Medieval I-persons such as Chaucer. [4]

The story is, to a large extent, from a variant of the biblical story in Genesis 3, in which the devil tempts Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit . The fixed Island, which is used for the forbidden fruit, as parallel forms a contrast to the floating islands. According to Lewis, that is not meant as a symbol of stability opposite instability, but more like the ' want to keep control in the hand ' versus the distance themselves thereof.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With Perelandra has Lewis probably build on A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), a book about the ten books counting poem Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton, Lewis released a year before that. The story has similarities with the Worm Ouroboros (1922) by Eric Rucker Eddison novels first, in the same way as similar to A Voyage to Arcturus. Both works exhibit Mediëvistieke and Victorian features.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lobdel95_6-0" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The hierarchy in Perelandra is just something else as in Novels, but still shows the agreements with the Biblical ' rank order ':<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]


 * The Old One - God
 * Maleldil (the Young the King)- Jesus
 * Eldila - Angels
 * The Green Woman or Lady (and her husband)- Eva ( Adam and)
 * Animals

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Humphrey, with whom Lewis at the beginning of the book waiting for Ransom, is the nickname of Robert Havard, who along with Tolkien and Lewis was a member of the Inklings.