Beauty of Nature and Solitude in The Space Trilogy:
Lewis uses the presense of natural beauty within the isolated nature of the planets (in the setting in Out of the Silent Planet from Lewis's Space Trilogy) to explain how solitude in a natural landscape can bring about solitude in the form of a mental state rather than a solely physical state; where we can find peace within ourselves after connecting with beauty in nature, separate from negative feelings of loneliness. As Ransom travels through Space, where virtually "all was silence," he compares his old perspective of Space as "the black, cold vacuity, the utter deadness, which was supposed to separate the worlds," to what he sees as truth now from his new perspective in the spaceship. Though they are alone in space, he sees the setting as a place that "he could not call it 'dead'; he felt life pouring into him from it every moment." I like this idea of life in space, because I feel there is a sense of community in nature that can transcend place. When I look at the moon, I know that it is the same moon that friends and family far from me are looking at too. Though we may be physically alone, our connection to nature with the shared experience of the celestial moon can bring us together mentally and spiritually.
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