![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these two books, we have been presented with striking pictures of true masculinity and femininity, deftly woven into the very fabric of the stories. Venus, the goddess of beauty and pleasure, is the epitome of all true womanhood, glorious sweetness and wild fruitfulness. Mars, the god of war and quintessential male, gives the first book its setting and donegality 1 In Perelandra, we see how the influence of Venus shapes the story. In Out of the Silent Planet, masculinity formed the background and atmosphere of the entire book. One simple reason is that true femininity and true masculinity have both been major themes throughout the entire Trilogy and they both come into greater focus in this final installment. Why is this? Is there any significance to the sudden increase in number of women to grace the pages of Lewis’s novels? Dimble, Camilla Denniston, Ivy Maggs, Grace Ironwood, Fairy Hardcastle-this list is just a few of the more prominent female characters we encounter. But we have a long list of female characters who appear in the final installment. There are none in the first book (excepting poor Harry’s mother) and only the Green Lady in the second. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy is the large number of female characters. Perhaps one of the most striking things about That Hideous Strength in comparison with the other two books of C. ![]()
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