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https://www.mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2023.htm
Start Date
8-5-2023 7:30 PM
End Date
8-5-2023 8:20 PM
Description
C.S. Lewis depicts “inferno” not only as the otherworldly vision of Hell, but also as how you would choose your life in the present. In Beyond the Shadowlands, Wayne Martindale discussed, in separate chapters, how Jadis and Orual chose Hell. This presentation will add to his research a comparison of the two queens’ choice of “living in the self” and refusal to abandon themselves. In The Great Divorce and The Silver Chair, a protagonist moves out of the present world into a dimension of Inferno or Elysium, while Jadis in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Orual in Till We Have Faces persist in their belief in the self. In The Problem of Pain, Lewis translated “living in the self” as “an appendage of the self,“ which can be vindicated by the word habitually used by both Jadis and Orual: “mine.” An analysis of their repetition of “mine” will lead to a response to the question of whether the two queens wished to come out of Hell.
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C.S. Lewis’s Inferno: Did the Two Queens Wish to Leave Hell?
C.S. Lewis depicts “inferno” not only as the otherworldly vision of Hell, but also as how you would choose your life in the present. In Beyond the Shadowlands, Wayne Martindale discussed, in separate chapters, how Jadis and Orual chose Hell. This presentation will add to his research a comparison of the two queens’ choice of “living in the self” and refusal to abandon themselves. In The Great Divorce and The Silver Chair, a protagonist moves out of the present world into a dimension of Inferno or Elysium, while Jadis in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Orual in Till We Have Faces persist in their belief in the self. In The Problem of Pain, Lewis translated “living in the self” as “an appendage of the self,“ which can be vindicated by the word habitually used by both Jadis and Orual: “mine.” An analysis of their repetition of “mine” will lead to a response to the question of whether the two queens wished to come out of Hell.
Comments
SESSION VII
6:30 PM—7:20 Eastern
5:30 PM—6:20 Central
4:30 PM—5:20 Mountain
3:30 PM—4:20 Pacific
10:30 PM—11:20 GMT