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| The second person, the Christ figure. |
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| What is the Silent Planet? |
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| Earth/Thulcandra, it is silent planet because the oyarsa became bent. |
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| An angelic ruler of a planet. |
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| An Oyarsa who ruled earth/Thulcandra and then became evil. |
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| What is Weston’s “only defense”? (p. 29) Note his reasoning throughout the whole paragraph. |
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| That “small claims must give away to great.” An individual has no rights in contrast to the right of making history. |
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| What does Ransom find it more difficult to disbelieve? (p. 33) |
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| What “nightmare” is falling off Ransom? What changes about his view of Space? (p. 34) |
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| The cold, dead, starkly lonely view he held of space. He now views it as the womb of the worlds. |
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| What is a “kind of madness”? (p. 56) |
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| Why is Weston on Malacandra? (pp. 134-36) |
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| Because he considers it the right of Life for those who are more powerful to stomp out the life of those who are weaker if it furthers that greater power. Man subduing everything else. |
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| What prophecy does Oyarsa give Ransom? (p. 142) |
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| That the siege of Thulcandra is coming to an end. |
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| What sorts of danger will come from Weston and his forces? (pp. 151-52) |
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| A cosmic and eternal one. |
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| What planet does Ransom see rising beyond the Asteroids? What’s significant about this planet? (p. 158) |
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| Jupiter it is greatest plant and very central although Ransom is never told why. |
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| Why is Ransom sent to Perelandra? (pp. 20-21) |
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| Because the battle is progressing and the Bent One is making an attempt of Perelandra. Ransom is being sent to combat it although he is not positive how. |
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| What idea is Weston obsessed with? (p. 70) |
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| That humanity must extend its reach and influence in any way it can. |
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| What specific reason does Ransom realize he’s been sent to Perelandra for? (p. 70) |
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| To stop Weston, save the Green Lady. |
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| According to Weston, what is the goal towards which the whole cosmic process is moving? (p. 79) |
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| Pure spirit. Total disengagement from the physical into a vortex of self-thinking, self-originating activity. |
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| What is the Un-man’s basic technique, which he does “with extreme beauty and pathos”? (p. 107) |
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| He tells stories about women who take risks, are reviled, but end up vindicated. |
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| What is Ransom’s most serious injury? (p. 160) |
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| His heel is bitten b the Un-Man and will not stop bleeding. |
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| Whom does Ransom meet on the mountain? (pp. 167-68) |
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| Malacandra and Perelandra, the Oyarsa of Mars and Venus. |
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| Who are Tor and Tinidril? (p. 177) |
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| The names of the King and Queen. |
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| What does Tor prophesy about Maleldil and Thulcandra? (p. 182) |
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| That Maleldil will go to war with Thulcandra ad the disguises of evil will be stripped away And that Thulcandra will be cleansed, and then things will truly begin. |
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| What is the Great Dance? (p. 183) |
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| The movement of nations and planets, of life and death, of time passing. The living and existing in and before Maleldil. |
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