![]() ![]() So he dooms his own instruction: it is only capable of warning us about dangers which are so ridiculous that they never could have tempted us in the first place. Yet Lewis is not reveling in the comedic promise of overblown evil, he's trying to be instructive. His villains are like Snidely Whiplash: they are comically evil, evil not due to some internal motivation, but because the narrative requires it. ![]() Unlike Milton, he cannot create a tempting devil, a sympathetic devil, and so Lewis' devils are not dangerous, because no one would ever fall for them. He cannot understand the reasons or motivations for why someone would do something he considers 'evil'. Lewis is simply unable to put himself in another's shoes, which is very problematic for a writer or a theologian. However, it's not his faith that is the problem-it certainly wasn't a problem for Donne or Milton. Suffers from the same problems as Lewis' other books, both his children's fantasy and his pokes at theology: Lewis' worldview is not sophisticated, and his sense of psychology has a large blind spot. ![]()
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