Out of the Silent Planet was written
by C. S. Lewis as a Christian allegory. Ransom, like Lewis himself, was a philologist
who taught at Cambridge University. He functions as an "everyman" character, morally
located between the pure evil of Weston and Devine and the pure good of the eldila.
Ransom, like the Christian, is a fallen character who belongs to Thulcandra, but who can
nonetheless percieve and understand Oyarsa.
In his
profession as a philologist, Ransom is a translator. That enables him to make the words
and ideas of Thulcandra comprehensible to those of Malacandra and vice versa. His nature
is neither purely fallen nor unfallen, but like post-Adamic humanity, "simul iustus et
peccator" (both righteous and sinner), both part of a world fallen into original sin and
yet made in the image of God and redeemed by Jesus.
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