Shadowlands | Summary
Act I
Shadowlands opens with a monologue by C. S. ‘‘Jack’’ Lewis. He addresses the audience as if they were attending a lecture. He talks about how much he knows about pain, love, and suffering, and why God lets tragedies happen to people. Lewis argues that God does not want us to be happy, but rather, he wants us to be worthy of love. He believes that suffering is God’s love in action.
In an Oxford dining hall, Lewis sits with his elder brother, Major Warner ‘‘Warnie’’ Lewis, and several colleagues from the university. They discuss how women are different....
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