A man will guess where his morals come from. What is right and what is wrong‚ what is good and what is bad. Some may say these are acquired‚ but then why would every civilization to ever come about have similar morales? “For example‚ some people wrote to me saying‚ ‘Isn’t what you call the Moral Law simply our herd instinct and hasn’t it been developed just like all our other instincts?’ (Lewis 19) The book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis goes into great depth into what morals are. The book covers
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In Narnia‚ the children grow up in what appears to be a sheltered world. The four children in the real world are isolated and away from the reality‚ which is a world of war and devastation. This would explain why C.S. Lewis made the world of Narnia a world of perpetual winter. Since the children were so oblivious of what their world actually was‚ their perception was frozen and they were unable to see what was truly going on. As the novel progresses‚ the four realize that there is a war‚ and as they
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Unstable Ground “Friendship is unnecessary‚ like philosophy‚ like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”-C.S Lewis. In the preceding quote by C.S Lewis; Mr Lewis explains what friendship does for a person. To paraphrase it in an understandable way‚ he seems to have said; Friendship is not necessary to survive‚ it only enhances life and makes life more interesting. This is my personal viewpoint exactly! Throughout life many
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In C.S Lewis’s celebrated book Mere Christianity he writes the following: “I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ’I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher‚ but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg or else
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Humanity is in danger of dying. According to C.S. Lewis‚ this humanity is not simply the existence as a biological species‚ but is instead founded upon the capacity to understand the objective values of the world. So‚ as the traditional values of the world are shunned‚ as they die‚ humanity will die as well. In Lewis’s book‚ The Abolition of Man‚ the permeation of moral relativism into the minds of the youth is the threat to humanity. In order to defend the importance of the doctrine of objective
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In the grand scheme of humanity‚ much of its existence has been spent pondering just how much control a God could even have in a world that has given so much trouble and torment to the inhabitants of a tumultuous planet. Humans have been without a doubt the most dominant species to exist on the planet‚ establishing domain over every facet of life that has come across our paths. It is almost this very reasoning that has left humanity wondering about this higher being called God‚ chiefly because
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Content Summary The book‚ The Great Divorce‚ was written in 1945 by C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book‚ Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In many ways‚ it is a refutation of Blake’s book; there is no marriage of heaven and hell. The book begins in a sad‚ dark‚ desolate place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. Eventually‚ he stumbles upon a bus station‚ along with many other
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“The heart is deceitful above all things”. The White Witch confirmed that quote without a doubt. Although she was a fictional character‚ along with everyone else in the book she did commit atrocious acts the still happen today. The lion‚ the Witch‚ and the wardrobe is a very intriguing novel written by C.S. Lewis. Now C.S. Lewis was an army veteran he also was very good friends with J.R.R. Tolkien they hold each other’s writings accountable that’s part of the reason this book is so mindboggling.
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Each individual has his or her own criticism of literature‚ judging the book by the cover defines each reader unliterary or literary. As we read literature do we as a reader go in so much depth‚ that we look at each angle of the book and acknowledge the beauty of art by the authors. The book by C.S Lewis‚ An Experiment in Criticism is based on the critics of literature that involves the type of readers by the type of readings. Lewis is an author who is recognized for his contribution to children
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From Lamb to Lion A chrysalis into a butterfly‚ water into wine‚ a lamb into a lion. These are all examples of transformation. A tool that not only C.S. Lewis used but even biblical authors did as well in their own writings. The importance of transformation is very prevalent in a Christian’s life because it not only shows a change in a form or a figure but the meaning behind the transformation is just as important. External transformation is a powerful visual device that can really emphasize the
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