A huge, overarching point that Lewis makes in Out of the Silent Planet is the very extent to which Ransom and other human beings are driven by fear. Each of the creatures he spends a significant amount of time with eventually reveal to him in one way or another that fear cripples humans more than he was previously conscious of. It is addressed in a more indirect way in conversations Ransom has with the hrossa and the sorns, but when he finally reaches Oyarsa after being summoned, Oyarsa puts plainly what Lewis has hinted at for the duration of the narrative:
“You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended”(142).
This is the hope that Lewis continually offers in his narratives’ theology. What brokenness has ravaged can be redeemed, and the process of redemption might be painful, but it will work.
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