Characters
Who is Weston and Devine?
Malacandra refers to this planet.
What is Mars?
Ransom learns this language to speak with the Hrossa.
What is Old Solar?
This species on Malacandra says this: "What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it."
This is the reason Thulcandra has no contact with other worlds.
What is Earth is fallen or "bent"?
These are angel-like beings that serve as guardians and messengers on Malacandra.
Who are the eldila?
Perelandra refers to this planet.
Ransom believes he is going to Malacandra to be sacrificed to this species.
What are the seroni (sorns)?
"It is ... into the great waves and through them and beyond. Now that you know Fear, you see that it must be you who shall taste it on behalf of your race. You know the King will not. You do not wish him to. But there is no cause for fear in this little thing: rather for joy. What is fearful in it?"
Who is the Un-man, Weston in Perelandra, talking with the Green Lady?
In Perelandra, the Fixed Land is a symbol of this.
What is temptation?
She is the Eve of Perelandra.
Who is the Green Lady (or the Queen)?
This is the name for "Earth" in the Ransom Trilogy.
What is Thulcandra?
Ransom's mission to Perelandra echoes this biblical story.
What is temptation in the Garden of Eden?
‘For the first question, Oyarsa, I have come here because I was brought. Of the others, one cares for nothing but the suns’ blood, because in our world he can exchange it for many pleasures and powers. But the other means evil to you."
Who is Ransom?
In Out of the Silent Planet, the hnraka represents this.
He is the King of Perelandra.
Who is Tor?
These are the three sentient beings found on Malacandra.
Who are the hrossa, the seroni (sorns), and the pfifiltriggi?
The hrossa have this attitude toward death.
What is peaceful acceptance?
"Shall I go and rest and play," she asked, "while all this lies on our hands? Not till I am certain that there is no great deed to be done by me for the King and for the children of our children."
Who is the Green Lady in Perelandra after listening to Weston?
In Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis criticizes this through the character of Weston.
What is colonialism and/or materialism?
He rules all the planets and commands Ransom to travel to Perelandra.
Who is Maleldil?
In Perelandra, the Green Lady is forbidden to sleep here as a test of her obedience.
What is the Fixed Land?
This vegetation covers Perelandra, and Ransom finds great delight in them.
What are bubble trees (and giant fruits)?
What species on Malacandra says this: "Start from where we are, Small One. The swiftest thing that touches our senses is light. We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge—the last thing we know before things become too swift for us. But the body of an eldil is a movement swift as light; you may say its body is made of light, but not of that which is light for the eldil."
What is a sorn?
In Perelandra, the waves serve as a symbol of this.
What is Maleldil's (God's) will or Divine Providence?