Point of View

The novel is written from the third person point of view. This third person narrator has exclusive access to the main character Dr. Charles Ransom’s psyche. This means that the novel employs a third person limited narration, in that the narrator inhabits Ransom’s consciousness throughout. The ways in which the narrator describes Ransom’s surroundings and experiences thus originate from Ransom’s distinct manner of seeing and perceiving the world.

This close connection between the third person narrator and the main character enacts Ransom’s conviction that the natural world, its landscapes and evolutions, are reflections of his often inarticulable emotions. The reader might refer to passages from Chapter 21, “Journey to the Sea,” for examples of this dynamic. After Ransom and his traveling companions encounter the blown up bridge, the narrator says that “During their journey to the south he had felt an...