On Malacandra, Ransom at first reacts with fear towards the Malacandran species, but is eventually able to overcome this and becomes curious about the language and culture of the hrossa, the first species on Malacandra that he meets. Ransom’s sacrifice proves to be unnecessary to the kind ruler of Malacandra, in line with Lewis’s ideas about rejecting older forms of pagan sacrifice in favor of the grace Lewis finds in the Christian faith. He is captured by Weston and Devine, then used as “ransom” for the entire human race so that Weston and Devine can continue their exploitative explorations of the planet Mars (called Malacandra by the sentient inhabitants). The protagonist of the novel, Ransom is a philologist don (linguistics professor) at Cambridge taking a gap year to walk through the English countryside.
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