She begins to learn from Ransom, but shortly after they meet Weston arrives on the scene. She walks completely with God and has free will, although she does not know it. Ransom soon meets the Eve of that world, who is named Tinidril and is also called The Green Lady. Ransom is brought to Perelandra by a mighty spirit, and arch-angel, that he met on Mars but is not told what he is expected to do there. The story is a fascinating study of how free will and temptation work. Lewis begins by describing the paradise that exists and then tells how evil tries to corrupt this new world. Essentially the story is a re-telling of what happened in the first chapters of Genesis in the Garden of Eden. In this story as told by Lewis Perelandra is a paradise, an unfallen world that knows no evil. However, the story takes place on Venus (called Perelandra in this novel) not Mars. The protagonist is the same, Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology, and one of the same villains (Weston, the physicist) reappears. It continues the story that began in Out of the Silent Planet. Many reviewers consider this the best of the three books, and some say that it is one of the top three books written by Lewis. This podcast covers Perelandra, the second book in the Space Trilogy by C.
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