Analysis Of The Great Divorce By C. S Lewis
C.s Lewis is one of the greatest Christian and British Authors thought history. Part of University of Oxford’s Inklings, which also consisted of C.s Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and two other members. This group would read each other parts of the manuscripts of their books. One of the books C.s Lewis read to this group was “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”, J.R.R Tolkien did not like this book, he did not think it would do well, but he was wrong. Two of C.s Lewis greatest works, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and “The Great Divorce” are allegory used to describe realities thought fiction.
The Great Divorce by C.s Lewis is one of his greatest works, it is deep on complex, and what readers first think, is not the truth. In His book C.S Lewis describes the purpose of writing it, it …show more content…
Heaven is peaceful and there are ghosts that live there. One of the ghost that lives there has a salamander on his shoulder, which is to represent Sin. An angel comes and talks to this man, saying that he must take this off his shoulder lest he is thrown into hell. But the man repeats, “No, if you kill him, you kill me”, showing his attachment to the sin. Over time the angle does take the salamander off the shoulder, and the man does not die. He is in great pain, for removal of any sin we hold dear is painful and hard, but he lives. The man turns from a phantom body to a real human body, thus showing the sanctification process. Thus fulfilling Lewis Quotes in his Prologue to the book. “if we insist on keeping hell( or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even ht smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. I belives, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned( even plucking out his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond
The Great Divorce by C.s Lewis is one of his greatest works, it is deep on complex, and what readers first think, is not the truth. In His book C.S Lewis describes the purpose of writing it, it …show more content…
Heaven is peaceful and there are ghosts that live there. One of the ghost that lives there has a salamander on his shoulder, which is to represent Sin. An angel comes and talks to this man, saying that he must take this off his shoulder lest he is thrown into hell. But the man repeats, “No, if you kill him, you kill me”, showing his attachment to the sin. Over time the angle does take the salamander off the shoulder, and the man does not die. He is in great pain, for removal of any sin we hold dear is painful and hard, but he lives. The man turns from a phantom body to a real human body, thus showing the sanctification process. Thus fulfilling Lewis Quotes in his Prologue to the book. “if we insist on keeping hell( or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even ht smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. I belives, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned( even plucking out his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond