Space Trilogy 2: Shannon Rose

For this Journal, I would like to highlight a certain parallel that I got when reading along The Space Trilogy when noticing the character traits of Dr. Ransom. As the protagonist, this hero is not quite the typical hero with the red cape and brave hart personal qualities. The nature of Ransom's heroeship is amazingly average, as they say. In That Hideous Strength, Ransom's education and general persona is reavealed in the following quote: “His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.” 
This epidemic could be compared to the nature of characters in the Holy Bible. For example, the Apostle Paul, who is regarded by Biblical scholars as a major theological authority. According to accounts of history, Paul was a notorious for persecuting Christians. He was a Pharisee. Like, when the Christians were being executed by means of stoning, he was the one telling the executioner to continue. People hated him. Throughout the Bible, God uses average people to get across an eternal message. This can be related back to the series. Ransom is a slightly unheroic, but Lewis uses him to portray a message based on those from the Bible.