Out of the Silent Planet Questions and Answers
by C. S. Lewis

The central idea of Out of the Silent Planet revolves around how human beings can make life more livable in a setting where it is difficult to live. The beliefs in Malacandra are diametrically...

Elwin Ransom, the main protagonist in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, serves as a sort of stand-in for Lewis himself. A relatively ordinary man, Ransom is a linguistics professor who uses his...

Out of the Silent Planet was written by C. S. Lewis as a Christian allegory. Ransom, like Lewis himself, was a philologist who taught at Cambridge University. He functions as an "everyman"...

Out of the Silent Planet is the first of what is known as The Space Trilogy or The Cosmic Trilogy. Dr. Weston and Dick Devine are travelers to the planet Malacandra. Though Dr. Weston is...

In C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet, the Hrossa is one of three native species on the planet of Malacandra (the other two are Seroni and Pfifltriggi) with the reasoning abilities of humans....

Postscript The Postscript of Out of the Silent Planet is an interesting literary device. In it, the protagonist, Ransom, corresponds with the fictionalized and actual author of the story, "Lewis,"...

Early in Out of the Silent Planet, Ransom—the protagonist—happens upon a house known as "The Rise" during his backpacking vacation. Once he enters the house, he is left alone in a room for a while....

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis is the the first book in a trilogy sometimes called the Space Trilogy or Cosmic Trilogy, consisting of Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous...

The symbolism of the Christian Trinity is a running parallel throughout the novel, though because the action has been displaced to Mars where the people have not "fallen" the protagonist, Ransom,...