The beginning of the book The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis was difficult to understand and hard to figure out‚ but as you read on‚ you come to find out that this book is about heaven and hell and the people that go there. The narrator who is the main character in the book tells the story on what he sees from his eyes. The author describes hell as a dark cold town with alleys that people live in and no one to be seen on the streets‚ and heaven as this place that looks beautiful with green grass‚ mountains
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Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis’ argument for a Universal Law comes from ancient antiquity where it was referred to as the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature was something so inherent and so primal that it seemed all were bound to in some way. Now there is all sorts of law that we are bound to yet the only true law that we can break is the Natural Law. We can not as C. S. Lewis points out defy gravity or further defy Newtonian physics‚ but we can choose to not follow the standard. For example‚ if someone
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The Wicked Ways of the White Witch: How Evil is Evident in Jadis‚ the “Queen” of Narnia It was once said that “evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree” (“Ethiopian”). In C. S. Lewis’ The Lion‚ the Witch‚ and the Wardrobe‚ evil enters the fictitious world of Narnia and quickly diffuses throughout the land. This evil permeates every aspect of its society and has its inhabitants living in fear of the source: Jadis‚ “Queen” of Narnia‚ better known as the White Witch. She is
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theologists‚ but C.S. Lewis made his own claim as to what he believes love really is. Lewis believed that love was not as simple as many theologians have put it. He believed that love was split into four different types‚ and that to understand love is to know these four types. Storge‚ Phileo‚ Eros‚ and Agape are the four types of loves Lewis speaks about. To be able to break down the subtle love between characters in his fictional novels‚ we must first have a firm grasp as to what Lewis really means when
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C.S. Lewis’ descriptions of heaven and hell in the book The Great Divorce are mainly metaphorical‚ as he wants to illustrate the fundamental differences between the two places that we have all grown up knowing about. To do this he uses the typical illustrations such as light and dark‚ sunrise and sunset‚ and mountains and valleys‚ or deep ravines. However‚ I think many things that are spoken about in the book are very similar to the actual places. Several differences are the people‚ the weather and
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The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis’s first book of the Chronicles of Narnia introduces the reader to the land of Narnia. Written in the 1950’s Lewis’s inspiration to write a children story stemmed from the arrival of three children evacuated to the Lewis country home during the bombing of London by the Nazi. Within unfolding story C.S. Lewis provides childlike insights into philosophies of faith‚ compassion‚ temptation‚ redemption and
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‘‘Religion and Rocketry’’ was more effective than Out of the Silent Planet for C.S. Lewis to express his thoughts about life on other planets and how they relate to us. There are many ways to express a thought or opinion. An author can choose to communicate his opinion through a non-fictional source‚ like C.S. Lewis did in ‘‘Religion and Rocketry’’‚ or through a fictional source. C.S. Lewis communicated the same idea he did in ‘‘Religion and Rocketry’’ through a completely fictional story called
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Mere Christianity Mere Christianity a book written by C.S. Lewis‚ one of the greatest writers of his time‚ is a life-changing introduction to the Christian faith ever written. This book is based on C.S. Lewis’s broadcast radio talks in the BBC around the time of the war years. In book one and book two of Mere Christianity Lewis explains the right and wrong of human nature as well as what Christians believe. Lewis’s work is so inspirational because these talks were not solely intended for the Christian
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Out of the Silent Planet “All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.” -Plato In C. S. Lewis’ book Out of the Silent Planet‚ the protagonist‚ Ransom‚ was kidnapped while on a leisurely journey and was taken to Malacandra (which was later identified as Mars). The two who kidnapped him were‚ according to the native Malacandrians‚ bent hnau (a hnau being a rational being) by the name of Weston and Devine. These two thought that Oyarsa‚ the ruler of Malacandra
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About happiness Nowadays‚ people usually like to say “I’m not happy” in every single day. No matter what has happened or actually there is nothing wrong with them. It already becomes young people’s tap. Whenever you ask them whether they are happy‚ their answer is negative. What is the cause of people’s lack of happiness? Is that because they can not eat enough or don’t have clothes to dress? The answer is an absolute no. People’s living standard has never reached such a high level‚ and now people
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