5/28/2023 0 Comments That hideous strength book![]() Mark doesn’t begin to chafe at his circumstances until much later, when it appears his wife is a hinderance to his career as a high ranking official of the NICE (National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments). In chapter one, we see her chafe at what her life, marriage, and career had become. ![]() Jane wants to be her own woman–married, of course, but equal to and independent of her husband. Mark wants to be an insider, an opinion-maker or influential voice within Bracton College. The story develops slowly to give us time to understand our central characters, Mark and Jane Studdock, both educated, progressively minded people. That framework is explored in the first two books and brought to bear in the third. ![]() ![]() In fact, one of us noted you could strip this story of its fantasy gods and planetary symbolism and it would remain intact, lacking only a magical framework for the weird stuff. I have since listened to Out of the Silent Planet and understand the gist of Perelandra, but while they expand and explain That Hideous Strength, they each have somewhat self-contained stories. ![]() One of my friends recommended it as a suitable stand-alone, and we read it together as a group. Lewis’s space trilogy, the first two books being Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. That Hideous Strength is the third of C.S. ![]()
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