Weston sets out to convince Tinidril (Eve's counter-part) to disobey this command and to stay overnight and sleep there. It contains one large fixed land, but though Tinindril and Tor visit it by day, Maleldil forbids their staying overnight and sleeping on the fixed land. Water largely covers Perelandra, with many islands which float on the waters and undulate with the waves. In the meantime, he converted to a spiritualist dedicated to the "Life Force"), and later shows signs of demon possession or control. We saw Weston before in Out of the Silent Planet, where, as an atheist, he sought to conquer Malacandra (Mars), but failed. None of it has yet been spoiled by the Fall.Īrchon (Satan) comes as a man from earth, Weston, to tempt Tinindril. In this book, Lewis gets to explore the question - what would have happened if Eve had not given in to the temptation posed by Satan in the Garden of Eden? In the story, the planet Perelandra (Venus) stands as a newly created planet by Maleldil (Jesus Christ - the Creator as the second person of the Trinity), who placed a woman (Tinindril - the Queen) and a man (Tor - the King) there in a fantastical Garden of Eden setting, where they are naked without shame. I previously posted on his first book in that trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet. Lewis, which he completed in 1943, as the second book in his Space Trilogy.
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