To boot, his use of allegory on Perelandra was just hideous. If you're going to make an allegory, you don't have a character explain the allegory while it's in progress!
To boot, his use of allegory on Perelandra was just hideous. If you're going to make an allegory, you don't have a character explain the allegory while it's in progress!
> asserting that it is not only by our own strength or insight [but by the intervention of a purportedly-benevolent supernatural being that totally isn't (barely-trying-to-be-)secrect-ly evil, we promise!] can the evil things we see around us be overcome.
The fact that it's a blatantly obvious lie is precisely why that aspect is bad. And the fact that it's crucial to the books is precisely the problem.
(On the other hand, if that's literally all you took away from reading it, then you missed all of the parts which Orwell found engaging and which he ran with in _1984_.)
All this has happened before and all this will happen again.