Help on C.S Lewis research paper?

Question

For English, I have to write a research paper. My author is C.S Lewis. I wanted to write about the influence of his religious conversion on his works. But I can't only write about that. I have only read The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape Letters and the beginning of The Great Divorce... What else can I write for my research paper? Perhaps, something having to do with religion? And what else can I do so that my research paper can be good?

Answer 1

Well, he also wrote books for children, here's what I found on some website;



"C. S. Lewis gained international renown for an impressive array of beloved works both popular and scholarly: literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy literature, and numerous books on theology. Among his most celebrated achievements are Out of the Silent Planet, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, and Surprised by Joy."



I actually read narnia, brilliant books.



Check out this website http://www.adherents.com/people/pl/CS_Lewis.html for his religious biography. Hope it helped!

Answer 2

How about the symbolism in his popular Narnia books? There was also a PBS special on the contrasting Lewis and Freud. That was interesting.

Mere Christianity is also an AMAZING read. This is one of my favorite quotes ever:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.

Answer 3

This web site gives you many research articles.