Just to warn you, dear reader, from the beginning, this post will be more geared toward asking questions rather than offering my thoughts. Having said that, I did find Perelanda to be filled with beautiful imagery, marvellous characters, and fantastic ideas. If the work was not meant to be such an obvious analogue to the Fall of Man on Earth, its hinting toward the Adam and Eve account would have been heavy handed, to say the least. However, Lewis successfully walked the fine line he set out for himself, and pulled it off smartly.
Now on to the questions. Obviously, I do not expect an answer to these questions, considering the unfortunate complication that the author is no longer living. I cannot see why that should nonetheless stop me from asking them.
What did Lewis believe was the purpose of the Fall? Did he consider it necessary? What would he have suggested would have happened if it had not occurred? Did he reject the idea that the two first humans could not have born children without the Fall occurring? Where did he believe the adversary came from? What did he think of Eve and her choice? What about Adam and his? Did he think that the resurrection simply restores the soul and body to the state like unto those that our first parents possessed before the Fall?
I'm sure that he has answers to some of these recorded in other works in a fair amount of detail. Now it's my job to go find them.
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