The Great Divorce

In The Great Divorce, the narrator suddenly, and inexplicably, finds himself in a grim and joyless city (the "grey town", representative of hell). He eventually finds a bus for those who desire an excursion to some other place (and which eventually turns out to be the foothills of heaven). He enters the bus and converses with his fellow passengers as they travel. When the bus reaches its destination, the "people" on the bus — including the narrator — gradually realize that they are ghosts. Although

Critique of The Great Divorce The Great Divorce is a wonderful work of literature written by C.S. Lewis about a mans trip on a bus to heaven and an understanding of eternity written form a first person perspective. It starts out with this man getting on a bus with several other people on it; to his surprise the bus begins to fly. After a while in flight the bus begins to descend, and the trees that were once figures far below him begin to get closer and closer until finally he lands on a completely

it?” I whispered to my guide. “Not at all,” said he. “It 's someone ye 'll never have heard of. Her name on earth was Sarah Smith and she lived at Golders Green.” “She seems to be...well, a person of particular importance?” “Aye. She is one of the great ones. Ye have heard that fame in this country and fame on Earth are two quite different things.” “And who are these gigantic people...look! They 're like emeralds...who are dancing and throwing flowers before here?” “Haven 't ye read your Milton? A

impacted is C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Lewis’s book is greatly indebted to Dante’s work, as both try to teach the reader how to achieve salvation. Furthermore, Lewis and Dante’s protagonists discover the path to salvation through choices, and learning what causes one’s refusal of God. Both authors explore the path to righteousness and enquire about life’s most difficult questions. Therefore, the dialogue between Dante’s Divine Comedy and C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce is witnessed through the conception

The Great Divorce was clearly intended to contradict the idea that a person cannot have both Heaven and Hell, an idea expressed in the revolutionary text of William Blake: “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. In fact, the Great Divorce was centered around this theme and the fact that a choice must be made between the two states of existence. Lewis tells us through his dream that although our fate is predestined, we still have freedom of choice. He explains that this is because of the fact that we can

Great Brittan has one of the highest divorce ratings in the world but the people who are heading to divorce court may not be who you would suspect. The demographic with one of the highest divorce rating is the “silver splitters” men’s age groups up to 50 and women up to 45. And the other notable group is the younger generation marriages often divorcing in the first ten years of marriage. The number 1 reason for divorcing is “unreasonable behavior”. The government is also doing little to help support

The conception of Heaven and Hell is meant to provide a means of justice in the afterlife, C.S. Lewis has a different view than the traditional idea on what that may look like. In “The Great Divorce”, Lewis defends that God is just by writing about a just version of Heaven and Hell. First, I summarize a general image of the traditional Christian idea of Heaven and Hell and explain the issues that come with it. Next, I offer C.S. Lewis’s counter position on Heaven and Hell. Lastly, I assess Lewis’s

In the book The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis there are many ghosts that represent our passion, intellect, sin and lust. C.S. Lewis has put the characters in a way of telling a story of the ghosts going back and forth between Heaven and hell and that their personal desires get in the way to them having a relationship with Christ. The big ghost is one of the first ghosts that we are introduced to first, he feels as if he is less sinful than the person who was the murderer. He is separated from God because

In The Great Divorce, Lewis uses the conversation with the murderer and the innocent bystander to illustrate that those who end up in hell are those who desire justice over mercy. In the story, the “decent chap” believes that his life on earth merited him heaven, and he is confused as to why the murderer got into heaven. He believed that he could earn his way into heaven through his works: through justice. This ghost saw the offer of salvation through repentance as charity. Since he believed salvation

In the Screwtape Letters, Screwtape used three rhetorical strategies against the patient; logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos is an argument, the reasoning the author uses, and or logical evidence. Ethos is how an author builds credibility and trustworthiness, the character and their ethics. Pathos is the words or passages that an author uses to show and trigger emotions. Each of these were used to manipulate the patients morals and values in life. Screwtape made sure that he was going to do bad things