Turning back and going South along the road, he meets Mr. Drudge, who left the pale men to travel with John, stays with Savage. They serve as models for Marxism and Fascists, and John leaves with an ominous warning from Savage that he will destroy the three pale men. He goes farther north to discover a valley filled with caves and inhabited by trolls and ruled over by a near-giant named Savage. These men do not help John as they talk of seeing through things they had not even seen. Humanist who are served by a creature named Drudge. He says thanks but he’ll take the long way around.Īs he goes North, he meets three pale men personified as Mr. She then leads him all the way to the Grand Canyon.Īs he tries to figure out how to cross, the church, personified as Mother Kirk, comes by and explains to him the reason for the canyon (which is the Sin of Adam) and that she is the only one who can get him across. The giant tries to convince him that that’s all he is, but Reason, personified as a gallant woman knight, comes to the rescue to slay the Spirit of the Age. So when he looks at John, everyone including John can see his insides i.e. The spirit is drawn as a giant whose gaze makes everything transparent. Eventually, the Spirit of the Age captures John. He thinks he found the island through aesthetic experience, but damaged by these characters and seeing his error he abandons the cities. In the cities of Thrill and Eschropolis (meaning an ugly city in Greek), he meets personifications of romantic love, the modern literary movement and Freudianism. He invites John to join him on his travels to Claptrap but John decides to continue his search for the Island. Enlightenment which is a personification of 19th century rationalism. At first, he thinks this yearning is Lust, personified as brown girls, but when he unmasks the mistake, he decides to flee his homeland and perceived oppressor, the Landlord, in search of the far-off island. He discovers and has visions of an island that fills indescribable yearning. The story centers around the main character, John, who as a boy grows up in Puritania under the stern, allusive, and seemingly tyrannical Landlord. Lewis was gifted with lightning fast writing and rarely wrote second drafts so he published The Pilgrim’s Regress in May 1933. ĭuring the same time he wrote The Allegory of Love which wouldn't be published for several more years. A year later, Lewis wrote The Pilgrim’s Regress in August 1932 while visiting the home of his longtime friend Arthur Greeves in Northern Ireland. This night served a key moment for Lewis and led to his conversion from Theism to Christianity. In September 1931, Lewis, Tolkien and Dyson had the famous Night of Addison’s Walk where they walked around Magdalen College discussing myth and how Christianity is the true myth.
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