- What lenses of literary criticism would you find most useful in drawing out the meaning of these chapters?
- Ch.4 - What archetypes/myths is he referencing as if he might be enacting them with the dragon? (47) Circe, Alcina? (54) What is different about the girl? Why does she laugh?
- Ch.5 - Why can't he look at her or even stand sometimes? What are the "reasons" they know and cannot tell to each other? (63) Describe the dichotomies between their perspectives. What exactly has she learned at the end of the chapter that has made her so much older? (68-70) What exactly is repelling Ransom?
- Ch.6 - Why start this way? More dichotomies. Piebald? No eldilia?
Journal 34 - Ch. 7
- What does she mean by saying, "You and I are not old enough to speak together it seems" (86)?
- What new light do you gain about why folks from other worlds respond to Weston, and lately Ransom, with laughter?
- What evidence of Maslow's law do you see in Weston? Has he hit the "self actualization" stage?
- What has happened to Weston? What role do you see him being in the story? Do you see any mythical/biblical archetypes?
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