Comparing Einstein And Schrodinger's Out Of The Silent Planet
When Ransom initially meets Weston and Devine, Devine describes him as, “The great physicist. Has Einstein on toast and drinks a pint of Schrodinger’s blood for breakfast,” (Out of the Silent Planet 15). From this the audience can determine the Weston is an intelligent man through the comparisons to Einstein and Schrodinger. Weston’s opinions on humanity are rather Darwinist as he views Harry, a boy who worked for them that they were originally going to use for the presumed sacrifice on Malacandra, as, “… Incapable of serving humanity and only too likely to breed idiocy. He was the sort of boy who in a civilized community would be automatically handed over to a state laboratory for experimental purposes.” (Out of the Silent Planet 21).
As the story moves on it is shown through dialogue with Ransom that Weston holds to the idea that some sacrifices must be made for the advancement of the human race, …show more content…
Between the events of the first book and the second Weston has picked up humanism, having accepted something resembling spiritualism while still retaining his humanity first attitude from before (Out of the Silent Planet 77-82). Here however is when Weston makes a fatal mistake and admits into himself a hostile spirit or entity that completely over throws his control over his body and in his final moments he realizes this with a cry of terror, “Ransom, Ransom! For God’s sake don’t let them----” (Out of the Silent Planet 83). From there on Weston only makes two appearances. Once when The Un-Man, what Ransom calls the creature inhabiting Weston, decides to use him to psych out Ransom (Out of the Silent Planet 111). The final time it occurs is down in the caverns of Peralandra when the Un-Man, realizing that Ransom would not kill a fellow living being, tries to stop Ransom from killing the body in which it is living (Out of the Silent Planet
As the story moves on it is shown through dialogue with Ransom that Weston holds to the idea that some sacrifices must be made for the advancement of the human race, …show more content…
Between the events of the first book and the second Weston has picked up humanism, having accepted something resembling spiritualism while still retaining his humanity first attitude from before (Out of the Silent Planet 77-82). Here however is when Weston makes a fatal mistake and admits into himself a hostile spirit or entity that completely over throws his control over his body and in his final moments he realizes this with a cry of terror, “Ransom, Ransom! For God’s sake don’t let them----” (Out of the Silent Planet 83). From there on Weston only makes two appearances. Once when The Un-Man, what Ransom calls the creature inhabiting Weston, decides to use him to psych out Ransom (Out of the Silent Planet 111). The final time it occurs is down in the caverns of Peralandra when the Un-Man, realizing that Ransom would not kill a fellow living being, tries to stop Ransom from killing the body in which it is living (Out of the Silent Planet