This highlights the “mental switch” that Lewis is after: he thinks that the current way of looking at the universe, the so-called “New Astronomy” has resulted in a disenchanted way of viewing the world. He begins to realize the universe-space-is much different than he’d been told. īut then Ransom undergoes a drastic change in perspective as he looks out into the marvelous scene before him. As Ransom asks Weston at the beginning of chapter four, “You mean we’re-in space.” And then: “Ransom uttered the word with difficulty as a frightened child speaks of ghosts or a frightened man of cancer”. And the source of this fear is that fact that he is in space. On his way to Malacandra, miles from Earth, Ransom begins to realize the seriousness of his situation, and the result is terror. Weston and Dick Devine-drug and kidnap Ransom and stow him on a space ship on its way to the planet Malacandra (or Mars). He stumbles upon an acquaintance one night when he is looking for food and shelter, and that acquaintance and his friend-Dr. We are introduced to the main character, Elwin Ransom, a university professor and philologist, who is on a walking holiday in England. In season 6 episode 2, Paul and Courtney discuss Lewis’s first book in the Ransom Trilogy, a book titled Out of the Silent Planet.
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