Thoughts on Perelandra

Thoughts on Perelandra

12/10/2016

One scene that I really enjoyed reading was the scene when Ransom first arrives in Perelandra and eats the yellow fruit. The first thing that I love about this scene is that the taste of the fruit is unlike anything that our world could understand because it is outside what we know as reality. While on earth we only see what is before us and we do not often really consider that true reality is not just what we see and experience---we do not consider that it is far beyond what we may comprehend in daily life.

The second thing that I love about this scene is that for some reason Ransom does not feel as if he should taste the fruit again, even though he really wants to. This really resonated with me because I have had this same sense before; sometimes when I experience something very beautiful I want to leave it as just that individual experience so that it somehow doesn’t change or become less beautiful the second time around. I love this too because I feel like it supports the idea that it is okay to experience something beautiful just once. Our society often takes what is beautiful and tries to squeeze as much of that beauty out as possible. We don’t like letting go of wonderful things, but I think this scene expresses the idea that it can be very good and even better to let go at times.