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STUDY GUIDE of THE GREAT DIVORCE. By C.S. Lewis. Introduction. The Great Divorce arose out of Lewis’ interest in the nature of spiritual choices. The idea for allowing damned spirits a “holiday” in Heaven was suggested to him by his reading of the seventeenth century Anglican divine Jeremy Taylor, who introduced him to the ancient ...
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Apr 2, 2018 · In writing The Great Divorce, Lewis chose metaphor because of its ability to capture the imagination, and then used dialogue, symbolism, and allusion to the Psalms to get across his overarching themes: the importance of choice and the prideful nature of the human condition. Lewis, in describing these two themes, is able to separate the ...
The Great Divorce. SEEMED to be standing in a bus queue by the side of a long, mean street. Evening was just closing in and it was raining. I had been wandering for hours in similar mean streets, always in the rain and always in evening twilight. Time seemed to have paused on that dismal moment when only a few shops have lit up and it is not ...
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Unlike Blake, who expresses a dualistic belief that good and evil feed off each other in a symbiotic relationship, Lewis suggests that the separation of good and evil will be eternal in the afterlife, and that humans must sacrifice their sinful natures in order to enter God’s presence.
This study guide for C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce offers summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
The Great Divorce is a novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1945, based on a theological dream vision of his in which he reflects on the Christian conceptions of Heaven and Hell. The working title was Who Goes Home? but the final name was changed at the publisher's insistence.
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Nov 24, 2023 · The Great Divorce is Lewis’ exploration of heaven and hell and the individual human experience of each, and it is perhaps one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read this year.
