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More times than not, when referring to a high fantasy novel, many then believe there to be allegorical elements found within the novel because of an underlying conditioning for further analysis and inquiry into texts. However within, J.R. Tolkien’s high-fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, specifically in the foreword to his first novel, The…

Death and destruction are what follows N.I.C.E. in C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, from the death and brutality caused by Mr. Bultitude, a bear, and a tiger that mauled many of the guests in attendance at a dinner hosted by N.I.C.E.. Those lucky enough to survive and walk out with minor injuries, find each other…

Within HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl and C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength has a common theme of being “duty” because of both the series. In the miniseries Chernobyl, the focus centers around the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of the 1980s. One portion of the show focuses on the need of three volunteers, who are essentially…

In the readings of That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man, both authored by C.S. Lewis, there is a relation between the two because of them both having a focus on the idea that if one larger entity falls, everything else within falls too. In The Abolition of Man, within its section titled “The…

The readings in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis and those in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff relate to one another because of there being the theme of using humans for their resources. In ‘That Hideous Strength’ when speaking with the Dennistons, Jane is told to “give yourself to us” when referring…

The readings of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis and The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, have a direct connection to the opening of That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis because of their unifying theme that the only thing man has to fear, is man itself. This is a prominent theme in the second…

My name is Isabel Ramos (Rah-mos) and I am from a small town called Vandergrift which is roughly 40 minutes northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am doing a dual degree program here at Bucknell in environmental engineering and engineering management, so I will be graduating in 2027. Growing up, I had countless movie nights with…