Christianity the Mystery

In Christianity the mystery of evil entering into the world is uncovered in genesis when the serpent tempts eve. Temptation is the way in which evil gains its foothold in a perfect world. Likewise in the book Perelandra, written by C.S. Lewis evil gains a foothold through a temptation of the Green Lady. C.S. Lewis captures this temptation in the book. Like Christianity, evil began and only tempts the women first. The Green Lady is very vulnerable to the temptations of the Un-man and that is why he chooses the Green Lady rather than the King.

Innocence

One of the Green Lady's vulnerabilities is her innocence. The Un-man begins to tell stories of powerful women, and each of the stories were about women who stood forth alone and braved a terrible risk for a lover, her child or her people. The stories are illogical, but the Green lady innocence's causes her to be interested in this knowledge the Un-Man has. We see this vulnerable innocence in chapter 10 "as the endless speech proceeded, the Lady's questions grew always fewer; some meaning for the words Death and Sorrow-though what kind of meaning Ransom could not even guess- was apparently being created in her mind by mere repetition." The Green Lady hasn't until this point knew about the words Death and Sorrow. For Death and Sorrow did not exist. The Un-man used these words to capture her attention and she took the bait. These words were embedded in her mind and the only definition of the words was of what the Un-man said. This innocence of the Green lady became a vulnerable spot in her mind to the Un-Man.

Pride

One of the greatest temptations of man is pride and that is exactly what the Un-Man uses to entice the Green Lady with. In chapter 10 ransoms is awakened by the Un-man and the Green Lady dancing joyously around in these robe like objects made up beautiful bird feathers. These robes were being used to lure the Green Lady thoughts towards those of the Un-Man. The Un-Man does this to convince the Green Lady to disobey Maledil, in order that she might 'grow' as a woman, and to become as wise as some of the women he has expressed about. He then gives her a mirror so that she can admire and take pride in herself. uncovering the beauty of the Green Lady The un-man is smart in his thinking, and he tries to make the Green lady selfish and disobey Maledil by becoming 'free'. And being the first to taste fear was a type of pride that the un-man used towards tempting the Green Lady.

Sleep

One thing that is vulnerable to man is lack of sleep. As the Un-man tempts the Green Lady he is often not allowing her to rest and she is growing tired. Ransom describes several times that the Green lady had begun to become tired. When you are tired you do not make correct decisions and also begin to exaggerate a lot more than when you