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That Hideous Strength

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That Hideous Strength	comment	The third novel in The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis.That Hideous Strength is a genre shift. (It's subtitled "A Modern Fairy-Tale For Grown-Ups" for a reason). In the quiet college town of Edgestow, Jane Studdock finds herself haunted by strange dreams of a decapitated man and an undead mystic. Meanwhile, her husband Mark is strong-armed into joining the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments, a joint political-(quasi)scientific organization that is surreptitiously taking complete control of the town. The NICE is particularly interested in Bragdon Wood, where Merlin is rumored to be buried — not dead, just resting. With great reluctance, Jane falls in with the oddly inactive resistance led by Elwin Ransom — the only opposition to the NICE's (literally) diabolical plans.If you get the feeling that this one is a hackjob copy of 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, you actually have it backwards. This book came first: and right about the time of the atomic bomb. George Orwell actually wrote a snazzy review (titled "The Scientists Take Over") and sang the book's praises, with the caveat that he thought it was weakened by the book's supernatural premise, since of course good will beat evil if angels are involved. The book is also riddled with Christian allegory, although less overtly so than Perelandra was. Slightly. Perhaps it may be most generously summed up in the words of Lewis's friend and fellow Anglican apologist, Dorothy L. Sayers: "less good but still full of good stuff." On the other hand, another friend, J. R. R. Tolkien, dubbed it "That Hideous Book".
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That Hideous Strength / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
That Hideous Strength / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: The Director talks to the eldils using a language that causes a primordial, heart-felt longing in Jane for a day long past that she doesn't remember. She can't recall the sound of it, but a reader of the first two books should be able to figure out the language is Old Solar, the lingua franca of the Solar System that humanity corrupted and forgot millennia ago.
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That Hideous Strength / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
That Hideous Strength / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Horace Jules, the nominal director of N.I.C.E., is a venomous caricature of H. G. Wells.
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That Hideous Strength / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
That Hideous Strength / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: The N.I.C.E. police force is composed of mostly immigrants, including Captain O'Hara from Dublin. He is only seen a few times and doesn't engage in the brutality and torture that the other officers do while taking over Edgestow.
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That Hideous Strength / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
That Hideous Strength / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The central plot idea of a severed head being kept alive was based on an actual incident of German scientists trying to keep a dog's head alive in this way. The sheer cruelty of the idea so horrified Lewis that in the book it's done by none other than the representatives of evil embodied.
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That Hideous Strength / int_1a2636ee	type	Crucial Cross
That Hideous Strength / int_1a2636ee	comment	Crucial Cross: The event which convinces Mark to disobey the will of the ever-so-exclusive N.I.C.E. is their command to crush a crucifix beneath his feet. Mark was never a Christian, yet he cannot find it in himself to stomp on the image of one so vulnerable. His vain desire to be part of something exclusive and powerful like N.I.C.E. is overwhelmed by the sheer evil of destroying something so helpless and by that helplessness, the hideous nature of N.I.C.E. is exposed to Mark. It's also mentioned that Mark didn't place any particular importance on the cross or related subjects, but since he's being asked to stomp on one, there might actually be something special about it. (His tester is aware that it might happen, but continues because that's what the project required of its members, England being a nominally Christian nation.)
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That Hideous Strength / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
That Hideous Strength / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: N.I.C.E. enlists Mark to write propaganda pieces portraying the organization in a positive light. They appear to have editorial control over several large newspapers in England.
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That Hideous Strength / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
That Hideous Strength / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: Professor Frost was doing this way before Gendo Ikari made it cool. Even in a book, it's still scary.
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That Hideous Strength / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
That Hideous Strength / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: "Fairy" Hardcastle will not face the Head without a stiff drink.
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That Hideous Strength / int_216ca857	type	Not What I Signed on For
That Hideous Strength / int_216ca857	comment	Not What I Signed on For: Bill "The Blizzard" Hingest, an accomplished chemist, joined the N.I.C.E. because he believed it was actually about science, and resigned as soon as he found out it was really about social engineering and transhumanism.
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That Hideous Strength / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
That Hideous Strength / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Filostrato, one of the N.I.C.E.'s more (relatively) idealistic members, had this as his motivation for keeping Alcasan alive.
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That Hideous Strength / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
That Hideous Strength / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: The N.I.C.E. is not very nice at all.
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That Hideous Strength / int_268dbcfc	type	Good Is Old-Fashioned
That Hideous Strength / int_268dbcfc	comment	Good Is Old-Fashioned: According to the N.I.C.E., whose goal is to advance evil and diabolism under the guise of "scientific progress."
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That Hideous Strength / int_28a2cc0	type	Scale of Scientific Sins
That Hideous Strength / int_28a2cc0	comment	Scale of Scientific Sins: The N.I.C.E. is mostly about transhumanism, cheating death and usurping God.
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That Hideous Strength / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
That Hideous Strength / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: The human leaders of N.I.C.E. have all experienced tremendous trauma to their personalities and, in the worst cases, their basic free will, as a direct result of their long-term voluntary exposure to the powers of the dark eldila.
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That Hideous Strength / int_2bffe89	type	Listing the Forms of Degenerates
That Hideous Strength / int_2bffe89	comment	Listing the Forms of Degenerates: Done in-universe in a pro-NICE editorial in order to poison the well against anyone who tries to warn about the organization's tyrannical tendencies:
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That Hideous Strength / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
That Hideous Strength / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Ransom is extremely youthful in appearance despite pushing 50 and sporting a long, luxurious beard. Yet he also gives off an aura of wisdom befitting one much older. The former is from visiting Perelandra, the last truly paradisal world, and the latter is from his experiences making him truly humble — that is, having no illusions about his true nature as a creature of Maleldil.
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That Hideous Strength / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
That Hideous Strength / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: "Fairy" Hardcastle's inner circle minions are explicitly described as the sort of "fluffy, simpering" hyper-feminine stereotype. Like Miss Hardcastle, their lesbianism is implied rather than stated outright.
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That Hideous Strength / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
That Hideous Strength / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Ransom. After his adventures in the first two books, he graduates from The Hero to the Big Good, and the story focuses on two new characters, Jane and Mark Studdock.
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That Hideous Strength / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
That Hideous Strength / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: The N.I.C.E. are attempting to create an immortal human and, in the end, subjugate all of nature and all of humanity to a single immortal entity. They even explicitly refer to this as "creating God" in story. They don't get far, suffice it to say!
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That Hideous Strength / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
That Hideous Strength / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: A woman begins to laugh uncontrollably in fear and nervousness in response to Horace Jules' speech while he's under the influence of the Curse of Babel. She stops when Wither forces him to sit and clears his throat...only to begin again when Wither is under the same Curse of Babel, at which point she's joined by another woman!
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That Hideous Strength / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
That Hideous Strength / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Several different examples, in various ways. For a very long time, there was apparently a decree from God that the planetary angels were not to act within the Moon's orbit. Much of the Enemy's plan in That Hideous Strength revolved around the idea that mankind was cut off from direct celestial aid. Unfortunately for the Enemy, when he arranged for humans to leave the moon's orbit and interfere with Malacandra and Perelandra, the planetary angels were freed to interfere with Thulcandra in its turn. Ransom mentions that one advantage of fighting devils is that they hate their mortal minions as much as they do their foes, and happily "break their tools" when the mortals are of no further use to them.
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That Hideous Strength / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
That Hideous Strength / int_38047858	comment	Squishy Wizard: Merlin considers himself to be this; when told that he wasn't to use magic the same way that he did a millennium and a half ago, his assumption was that there would be a fight using spears and swords, and admitted that he wouldn't be good at that kind of fighting.
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That Hideous Strength / int_3a3e2875	type	Medicate the Medium
That Hideous Strength / int_3a3e2875	comment	Medicate the Medium: Discussed when Jane is first told that she has Psychic Powers by doctor Grace Ironwood: Jane replies that she doesn't believe in that kind of thing, and that she thinks her dreams belie a troubled subconscious. Along those lines of thought, she suggests she should go to a plain old psychiatrist, but Dr. Ironwood warns her that the psychiatrist might give her strong medications with severe side effects, and that those meds wouldn't get rid of her dreams in any case.
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That Hideous Strength / int_3f7b645d	type	The Insomniac
That Hideous Strength / int_3f7b645d	comment	The Insomniac: Wither has almost lost the ability to sleep; he takes a sleep aid when the need arises, but it rarely does, since he's more or less permanently in a trance.
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That Hideous Strength / int_45a177f1	type	Touched by Vorlons
That Hideous Strength / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Vorlons: Ransom appears to be divinely young as a result of his journey to the eternal paradise of Venus. On the evil side of things — Frost and Wither both have something really weird and unnatural about them. That bilocation thing, for instance...
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That Hideous Strength / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
That Hideous Strength / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Says the N.I.C.E.
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That Hideous Strength / int_46332d5a	type	Civilized Animal
That Hideous Strength / int_46332d5a	comment	Civilized Animal: Downplayed Trope; Mr. Bultitude is still an unclothed, mute bear, yet the grace of the Director has completely tamed him. He's totally obedient to the women of the manor and he's so calm they forget to tell a guest a bear's occupying the bathroom. There are even two different chapters from his perspective where we see that he processes and obeys laws imposed by humans while lacking the sentience to really understand them.
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That Hideous Strength / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
That Hideous Strength / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: A man from the fifth century is awakened from a temporal ripple and expected to spend the night in a 19th-century mansion. He has problems adjusting to table manners that don't involve eating with your hands, hospitality that combines incredible luxury with extreme apathy,note such as 'fine' bed linens, but being expected to dress himself, or a wonderful bath but no one waiting on him and most importantly, a world where Christendom emptied its faith and spread that emptiness around the globe.
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That Hideous Strength / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
That Hideous Strength / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: That Hideous Strength is a fictionalized version of Lewis' The Abolition Of Man, arguing against Philosophical Naturalism masquerading as Scientific Progress.
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That Hideous Strength / int_4ebc2ce5	type	Opposed Mentors
That Hideous Strength / int_4ebc2ce5	comment	Opposed Mentors: An evil example where the two chief villains disagree on the most efficient way to dehumanize their initiate/captive.
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That Hideous Strength / int_50c58a13	type	Exit, Pursued by a Bear
That Hideous Strength / int_50c58a13	comment	Exit, Pursued by a Bear: The one chapter from the perspective of the villainous Wither ends with him facing Mr. Bultitude, an actual bear, as he stands on his hindlegs and growls. Wither isn't seen again.
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That Hideous Strength / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
That Hideous Strength / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: A variation: it's implied that using Atlantean magic had a subtle negative effect on the user's health, though it wasn't specific what that was. The characters don't seem to know exactly what it was, themselves, though they can sense that Merlin has been somehow withered: his quietness is "like the quiet of a gutted building".
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That Hideous Strength / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
That Hideous Strength / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Merlin gets one after unleashing the curse of Babel: Qui Verbum Dei contempserunt, eis auferetur etiam verbum hominis.Lat. They that have despised the Word of God, from them shall the word of man also be taken away.
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That Hideous Strength / int_51ecf708	type	Self-Disposing Villain
That Hideous Strength / int_51ecf708	comment	Self-Disposing Villain: N.I.C.E.'s secret masters hold them in just as much contempt as they do all other human beings. Once Merlin has unleashed the might of the oyerÃ©su upon their base and ruined their plans for good, they, as Ransom aptly puts it, "break their tools," driving the humans under their close control to destroy one another, and then themselves for their own twisted amusement.
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That Hideous Strength / int_54bb2c63	comment	The Alleged Boss: Jules is nominally the director of N.I.C.E., but actually a pompous windbag, entirely clueless about what really goes on there, and only needed for the PR. Wither and Frost are actually in charge.
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That Hideous Strength / int_58cb5c33	type	Escaped Animal Rampage
That Hideous Strength / int_58cb5c33	comment	Escaped Animal Rampage: After Merlin frees the animals from the N.I.C.E. lab, they go on a rampage in the dining hall, trampling most of the N.I.C.E. employees.
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That Hideous Strength / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
That Hideous Strength / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Devine, after all the rotten things he got up to on Mars in the first book, seemingly made out okay in the end, even getting filthy rich enough off the planet's plundered mineral wealth to be created Lord Feverstone. He even manages to escape the Belbury Banquet disaster that obliterates most of N.I.C.E.. But his luck does ultimately run out, and he comes to a sticky end when Merlin destroys what's left of the organization by fully unleashing the otherworldy powers contained within himself.
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That Hideous Strength / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
That Hideous Strength / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Again, Miss "Fairy" Hardcastle, who takes particular joy in torturing female prisoners.
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That Hideous Strength / int_5f71cdb7	type	Cigarette Burns
That Hideous Strength / int_5f71cdb7	comment	Cigarette Burns: Miss Hardcastle uses them to torture Jane.
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That Hideous Strength / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
That Hideous Strength / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The tramp is a crazy homeless wandering tinsmith who gets kidnapped by the N.I.C.E. and mistaken for Merlin, and his utterly unafraid and uncurious behavior gives them no reason to suspect they have an impersonator on their hands. The N.I.C.E.'s most important plan is to team up with Merlin and use his magic to bolster their own power, so just by telling his captors nothing, not even through nonverbal cues, he manages to stall one of the most powerful conspiracies Great Britain ever faced, without even knowing anything about it!
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That Hideous Strength / int_60985aa7	comment	In with the In Crowd: Mark Studdock's motive for joining the NICE... and The Progressive Element at Bracton University... and Bracton University... and so on, and so on, all the way back to his childhood, when he dumped his best friend in order to be a member of a gang called The Grip. He stops just short of joining the elite at NICE, a handful of people in control of the entire world
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That Hideous Strength / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: One of the experiments at N.I.C.E. involves attempting to keep a severed human head alive indefinitely.
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That Hideous Strength / int_63557923	comment	Death World: In Professor Filostrato's telling, the Moon mountains are so sharp that you could impale a man on them and undiluted heat so intense a human body would instantly disintegrate into moondust. It was not always so; there was a race that "cleansed itself" and lives beneath its surface, and Frost hopes to follow their example.
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That Hideous Strength / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
That Hideous Strength / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Downplayed, but in a few places, the book mentions concepts that the reader wouldn't understand unless they'd taken a college-level history of philosophy course: When discussing the history of Wither's mental breakdown, i.e. how he became more and more detached from objective physical reality, Lewis name-drops some philosophers and philosophies of western Europe: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void." When Ransom is explaining to Merlin how he was taken captive to Mars, he uses the phrases "enginry" and "natural philosophy" where we might use "engineering" or "technology" and "science". The words "engine" and "engineering" share linguistic roots with "ingenuity", and what we today call science really was once considered a branch of philosophy.
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That Hideous Strength / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
That Hideous Strength / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: This is why Hingest is murdered after he resigns from the N.I.C.E.
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That Hideous Strength / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
That Hideous Strength / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Based on some of his private letters, Lewis might be suspected of this in the case of Miss Hardcastle.
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That Hideous Strength / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
That Hideous Strength / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: That Hideous Strength has no space travel and is about saving the world instead.
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That Hideous Strength / int_672b0bfd	type	Polly Wants a Microphone
That Hideous Strength / int_672b0bfd	comment	Polly Wants a Microphone: Discussed by Merlin when testing Ransom's credentials.
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That Hideous Strength / int_699a6c87	type	Masquerade Enforcer
That Hideous Strength / int_699a6c87	comment	Masquerade Enforcer: a subdued example in the form of the Dark Archon and his bent Eldila, (i.e. Satan and his Fallen Angels). While their ability to inflict direct physical damage is limited, they have the ability to whisper and tempt human beings, and on occasion possess willing humans. The Dark Archon has been so successful in secretly manipulating human civilization that it effectively controls the media and the government. As such, any attempt on the part of the heroes to expose the existence of the truth is immediately shot down:
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That Hideous Strength / int_6cb5fcec	type	Distracted by My Own Sexy
That Hideous Strength / int_6cb5fcec	comment	Distracted by My Own Sexy: Flirted with, particularly when the ladies of Logres are dressing up. Also Averted in an interesting way in the dress-up scene. The dressing room contains no mirrors, and none of the women can see why the dress they're wearing is so incredibly beautiful on them, though they can all see it on each other — which illustrates the point (on humility — think of others, not of yourself). Jane Studdock for example thinks her dress is too fussy, though blue is her color. But the others like it on her so she wears it — and promptly forgets all about it in the interest of choosing dresses for the others.
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That Hideous Strength / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
That Hideous Strength / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: What else should happen when Venus gets involved? When the escaped animals that were used for vivisection rendezvous at St. Anne's and proceed to do ... what animals inevitably do when presented with the opportunity
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That Hideous Strength / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
That Hideous Strength / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: The Dark Archon and his bent eldila are so powerful that the heroes, and their Oyarsa allies, have to operate in secret.
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That Hideous Strength / int_72426bbd	type	Self-Duplication
That Hideous Strength / int_72426bbd	comment	Self-Duplication: Wither always seems to be wandering around just the right places on campus to make everyone nervous. It's apparently a dark power he gained from his secret masters. Mark eventually punches one to find it's an insubstantial phantom that disappears when he touches it.
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That Hideous Strength / int_74e24e75	type	Cold Sleep, Cold Future
That Hideous Strength / int_74e24e75	comment	Cold Sleep, Cold Future: Merlin's experience of the modern world, which has replaced many of the close personal connections familiar to him with machines that serve similar functions, where the nations of the earth are internally and externally divided, and the magic of his time is almost impossible to perform anymore.
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That Hideous Strength / int_756dbd0b	type	Hard on Soft Science
That Hideous Strength / int_756dbd0b	comment	Hard on Soft Science: "There are no sciences like sociology," says Hingest. And the "scientific" programs of the N.I.C.E. are depicted throughout as just a front for totalitarian scientism. Then again, the protagonist is a Cunning Linguist.
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That Hideous Strength / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
That Hideous Strength / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: A question that really shouldn't have been all that armor-piercing functioned as one of these: Wither planned to consult The Head about a particular conundrum, but after telling Frost this, Frost asked him how he could do that when he was supposed to entertain an extremely important guest who was visiting that evening. Wither was absolutely shocked at the realization he'd forgotten about the guest. The fact that he'd forgotten something that important was something like a sign of approaching insanity for Wither, whose normal behaviors and speech patterns weren't exactly sane to begin with.
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That Hideous Strength / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
That Hideous Strength / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Miss Hardcastle is said to have once been a fascist. The fascists were virulently homophobic even for their time, and were very gung-ho about traditional gender roles. It's possible that Miss Hardcastle simply didn't realize she was a lesbian then, but Lewis never addresses the point either way. Also possible she doesn't really believe in any ideology and joins any group she thinks likely to gain power.
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That Hideous Strength / int_8145958b	type	Seemingly Profound Fool
That Hideous Strength / int_8145958b	comment	Seemingly Profound Fool: The tramp. He gets mistaken for Merlin by the N.I.C.E. and is either too simple or too smart to correct their mistake.
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That Hideous Strength / int_8296f61d	type	King in the Mountain
That Hideous Strength / int_8296f61d	comment	King in the Mountain: Merlin, resting under Bragdon Wood. Additionally, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, King Arthur, and, at the end of this book, Ransom himself are living eternal lives on Perelandra, awaiting the final salvation of the silent planet.
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That Hideous Strength / int_830f2f0e	type	Police State
That Hideous Strength / int_830f2f0e	comment	Police State: The college town, as ruled over by The N.I.C.E., qualifies: numerous police were everywhere, protecting construction workers who were shooing people out of their own homes and tearing everything down.
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That Hideous Strength / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
That Hideous Strength / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: MacPhee, a die-hard atheist scientist, remains implacably skeptical throughout all the supernatural events of That Hideous Strength, even though he's on the side of the supernaturalists. If anything, he represents the value and virtue of rational thought.
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That Hideous Strength / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
That Hideous Strength / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: When Mark's superiors at N.I.C.E. mention "the Head", he assumes they're just talking about the person in charge. He finds out later that it's an actual decapitated human head, and the ringleaders are taking orders from it.
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That Hideous Strength / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
That Hideous Strength / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Mr Bultitude, the bear of Logres, gets captured by two Belbury henchmen and kills Wither in the finale.
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That Hideous Strength / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
That Hideous Strength / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: The Head of the Institute is a literal severed head, animated by a dark eldil rather than its original occupant. There are also signs that it affects Frost, who experiences it as periods of doing things without knowing why; and there's one scene where Mark comes into Wither's office and finds that Wither's body is occupied by something quite unlike his normal personality. Inverted with Merlin, who becomes the vessel for five oyerÃ©su — angelic possession. Even though he knows that channelling their power will destroy him.
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That Hideous Strength / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
That Hideous Strength / int_90c018ac	comment	Also Justified in that that's the entire reason Merlin is there in the first place. The holy angels needed a magician to act through in order to deal with Belbury, but magic has been strictly forbidden for centuries. So God set aside Merlin, who had practiced magic back when it was still permissible, to be a vessel for his servants.
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That Hideous Strength / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
That Hideous Strength / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Director very deliberately invokes this trope and even discusses it with a main character, fully expecting the demons to kill their Mad Scientist minions as soon as they're no longer useful. He's exactly right, too.
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That Hideous Strength / int_952eba7e	type	To Win Without Fighting
That Hideous Strength / int_952eba7e	comment	To Win Without Fighting: St. Anne's plans to win not by force, but relying on the eldila. While MacPhee wants to use human might to defeat the N.I.C.E., Ransom and the others know that isn't an option. They succeeded, with Merlin and the OyerÃ©su disrupting the Institute's plans.
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That Hideous Strength / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
That Hideous Strength / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Inverted — Frost and Wither have lost so much of their humanity that they don't have emotions left to react to the total collapse of their plans, and instead lapse into something close to a demon-controlled fugue state.
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That Hideous Strength / int_95d5fa51	type	Torture for Fun and Information
That Hideous Strength / int_95d5fa51	comment	Torture for Fun and Information: "Fairy" Hardcastle openly admits she gets off on torturing people (especially women), and questions how anyone could succeed in the Secret Police if they didn't get a kick out of it.
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That Hideous Strength / int_97d575f9	type	Guardian Entity
That Hideous Strength / int_97d575f9	comment	Guardian Entity: Subtle, but implied throughout for the heroes to be none other than Maleldil Himself covertly being with them. It's most visible when Jane (who ends up with the heroes more or less only because they take her in to protect her from the villains who want to exploit her Dream Spying ability), by herself in the garden, thinks about how she doesn't fit in with the supernaturalistic side because "â€˜Religionâ€™ was [...] something steaming up from specially gifted souls towards a receptive Heaven" (and she isn't thus gifted). She wishes she could be like the others on her side who instead of this mental picture of religion have a notion of God and the assurance of divine help, but... She gets really distressed about it, and this gets worse and worse until "for one moment she had a ridiculous and scorching vision of a world in which God Himself would never understand, never take her with full seriousness." God, who is implied to be in some subtle form personally present, and definitely listening — and strenously in disagreement with this hopeless image and having none of it — steps in before she reaches the Despair Event Horizon. Instead of leaving her alone with the image of an indifferent God who'd never truly understand her, He lets her have a quick glimpse of what He's actually like; and obliges to her wish for Divine Intervention by gifting her a religious experience — moreover one that in form echoes more or less exactly the form she'd described it in her thoughts as to how that assured divine help she'd wish existed instead of religion would look like. Mark, the good side's prodigal, too, when he mentally desperately screams out from his NICE jail cell to someone, anyone for help, gets assistance in the form of the ability to No-Sell their attempts at mental torture and driving him to madness.
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That Hideous Strength / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
That Hideous Strength / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: Ransom's company start to feel planets crumbling and galaxies spiraling into the dust when they feel the presence of the Oyarsa of Saturn, Lurga. He's so ancient that even the other gods and angels feel young compared to him.
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That Hideous Strength / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
That Hideous Strength / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: An in-universe example with Merlin, in that he has fifth-century morals and expectations, exasperating the modern-day protagonists. For instance, upon hearing that a husband of one of the ladies is in prison for a theft (one he'd actually committed), Merlin seemed to have ideas about riding off to attack the county jail to free him. Merlin even suggests overthrowing the king of the U.K., at one point!
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That Hideous Strength / int_a64a325c	type	Chic and Awe
That Hideous Strength / int_a64a325c	comment	Chic and Awe: Implied in Jane Studdock's pending reunion with Mark at the very end. More accurately describes her first meeting with the Director (Ransom)
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That Hideous Strength / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
That Hideous Strength / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: The N.I.C.E. have their own police force. They managed to seize control of a college town with only a handful of people realizing it.
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That Hideous Strength / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
That Hideous Strength / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Merlin is appalled by his wakers' hospitality, even though he acknowledges that their technological advancements are very comfortable, because they replace servants who would honor him with devices that just sit there. In this and several other ways, he comes off as barbaric, both to the reader and to other characters. In this and countless other ways, his mindset is very different from that of the 20th century characters. Justified, of course, in that Merlin is a superficially-Romanized Celt from hundreds of years prior. Also Justified in that that's the entire reason Merlin is there in the first place. The holy angels needed a magician to act through in order to deal with Belbury, but magic has been strictly forbidden for centuries. So God set aside Merlin, who had practiced magic back when it was still permissible, to be a vessel for his servants.
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That Hideous Strength / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
That Hideous Strength / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Mark is entirely taken with the Progressive Element and goes in with them almost immediately. Jane has a bad feeling about them. Zig-zagged with the tramp: he seems to be one step closer to being an animal than most human beings, having lived in the great outdoors most of his life. His intelligence is described as "animal cunning", and this type of intelligence makes him act so neutrally that it allows him to utterly baffle one of the most powerful and knowledgeable conspiracies on the planet, making him a shockingly effective Spanner in the Works that utterly thwarts one of the N.I.C.E.'s most important schemes. On top of this, his eventual budding friendship with Mark even add to Mark's ability to No-Sell the N.I.C.E.'s brainwashing. But on the other hand, he's also listed under Cloudcuckoolander and Crazy Homeless People for a reason...
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That Hideous Strength / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
That Hideous Strength / int_abd29ad8	comment	Mark, the good side's prodigal, too, when he mentally desperately screams out from his NICE jail cell to someone, anyone for help, gets assistance in the form of the ability to No-Sell their attempts at mental torture and driving him to madness.
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That Hideous Strength / int_ac5054d4	type	Wound That Will Not Heal
That Hideous Strength / int_ac5054d4	comment	Wound That Will Not Heal: Ransom got one on his heel in Perelandra during his fight with the Un-Man. It stays with him throughout That Hideous Strength and gives him constant pain, since it can only be healed on the world where it was inflicted and he cannot return there until his task is done
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That Hideous Strength / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
That Hideous Strength / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Wither gets one when he realises he's forgotten Jules is arriving for the inaugural dinner. It's an unwelcome complication in itself, but what worries him more is the thought that his memory is beginning to fail.
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That Hideous Strength / int_ad4f656	type	Transhuman Aliens
That Hideous Strength / int_ad4f656	comment	Transhuman Aliens: We learn that the Moon became as desolate as it is because the Lunarians tried to destroy their bodies and become pure minds. There never was a greater disaster. Now they're locked in a great civil war with the other, "dark side" of the moon, attempting to exterminate the last holdouts of biological life.
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That Hideous Strength / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
That Hideous Strength / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: The higher standing members of the N.I.C.E. communicate with higher-dimensional lifeforms by specially preparing severed human heads for the "macrobes" (as their scientists call them) to possess and speak with. What the N.I.C.E. is too blind to realize is that these macrobes are literally demons from Hell.
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That Hideous Strength / int_b3deb1c6	type	Sexbot
That Hideous Strength / int_b3deb1c6	comment	Sexbot: Apparently a golem variation of this is the only way the cursed inhabitants of the moon ever get it off:
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That Hideous Strength / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
That Hideous Strength / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Horace Jules, the deluded and easily manipulated Director of N.I.C.E., serves as one to H. G. Wells. While C. S. Lewis was a fan of Wells' science fiction, he felt Wells "hocked his talent for a pot of message" and disliked his later books which were basically one Author Tract after another.
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That Hideous Strength / int_b61c6d0c	type	Top God
That Hideous Strength / int_b61c6d0c	comment	Top God: Jupiter-Oyarsa is the most divine and powerful of the eldila by a country mile. The narrator calls him the King of Kings and admits that he understands why men made an idol of him and called him the true God. Despite this, Jupiter-Oyarsa is not pleased to have men kneel and worship him, for Jupiter himself is a servant to Maleldil the Young, a being far greater than the world-shattering eldila and the idols made of them.
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That Hideous Strength / int_bf7ca818	type	Transhumans in Space
That Hideous Strength / int_bf7ca818	comment	Transhumans in Space: N.I.C.E. hopes to bring the vision of the first book's villain to life by creating an interplanetary empire. Unlike him, they have also set their sight on eliminating the flaws of organic matter and hope to replace humanity with a select few minds that have been stripped of their flesh, allowing them to eventually create a totally hygienic and controlled universe.
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That Hideous Strength / int_bff6c493	comment	Crazy Homeless People: In a convoluted series of events that could've driven him crazy if he weren't already, a homeless man who barely speaks English (and often isn't comprehensible when he does) called "the tramp" is mistaken for Merlin, mooches off of the baffled N.I.C.E while not being afraid or even curious about them, until the real Merlin shows up and casts a mind-control spell on the tramp, finally forcing him to impersonate Merlin as part of the real Merlin's plans to destroy the N.I.C.E. For his part, the tramp himself was unaware of all of this, and just wanted to eat and drink as much as possible. It's difficult to say whether C.S. Lewis wanted this Played for Laughs, Played for Drama, or both.
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That Hideous Strength / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: The National Institute of Coordinated Experiments definitely qualifies for both Stalinist By Any Other Name and Fascist By Any Other Name. On the one hand, Lord Feverstone talks about "liquidation of the backwards races" being part of their overall plans. On the other hand, they want to take a Great Leap Forward and bring about the New Human Being; and any time any of them talks about their aims, goals, or politics; it's a verbatim quote of historical Stalinist doctrines and philosophy. So are their methods: befitting both they take control of the newspapers, and have a brutal institutional police that is both rather reich-ish and rather Soviet. They pair their philosophy with a scientific veneer like the Nazis; but pathologise dissenters as mentally ill or undeveloped and think they have discovered the science of history like the Stalinists. Their head director, Horace Jules, is good at giving speeches, but rather incompetent overall—sound familiar?. For contrast, their head of security, "Fairy" Hardcastle, is a gender flipped version of Beria (written decades before him in a lucky guess). They even have some literally diabolical Mad Science going on, giving them the rare feat of having shades of Stupid Jetpack Hitler and Ghostapo at the same time!
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That Hideous Strength / int_c2cd384	comment	It's most visible when Jane (who ends up with the heroes more or less only because they take her in to protect her from the villains who want to exploit her Dream Spying ability), by herself in the garden, thinks about how she doesn't fit in with the supernaturalistic side because "â€˜Religionâ€™ was [...] something steaming up from specially gifted souls towards a receptive Heaven" (and she isn't thus gifted). She wishes she could be like the others on her side who instead of this mental picture of religion have a notion of God and the assurance of divine help, but... She gets really distressed about it, and this gets worse and worse until "for one moment she had a ridiculous and scorching vision of a world in which God Himself would never understand, never take her with full seriousness." God, who is implied to be in some subtle form personally present, and definitely listening — and strenously in disagreement with this hopeless image and having none of it — steps in before she reaches the Despair Event Horizon. Instead of leaving her alone with the image of an indifferent God who'd never truly understand her, He lets her have a quick glimpse of what He's actually like; and obliges to her wish for Divine Intervention by gifting her a religious experience — moreover one that in form echoes more or less exactly the form she'd described it in her thoughts as to how that assured divine help she'd wish existed instead of religion would look like.
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That Hideous Strength / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: NÃºmenor gets mentioned several times, based apparently on some discussions that Lewis had with Tolkien (Lewis apparently never saw a manuscript, since he invariably spells it "Numinor").
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That Hideous Strength / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Miss Hardcastle is usually seen chewing an unlit cigar. It's rare for her actually to light one, and when she does it's a very bad sign.
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That Hideous Strength / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: The tramp that Belbury picked up thinking he was Merlin survives the story through a mixture of Refuge in Audacity and being so weird that his oddity is mistaken for mysticism. He rarely speaks to his handlers, and when left alone with Mark conspiratorially rambles about toasted cheese, thinking it's some kind of spy code, while helping himself to the free food while it lasts.
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That Hideous Strength / int_ccb2a89c	comment	Melancholy Moon: Before Mark learns the terrible secret of the N.I.C.E., the Moon seems larger in the sky than he's ever seen it before. Its presence is fitting, since N.I.C.E. hopes to cleanse the Earth of flesh until it's as pure as the planet's distant neighbor.
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That Hideous Strength / int_d23a9bb8	comment	Possession Burnout: When Merlin acts as the vessel for the oyerÃ©su, he does it knowing that it will destroy him — the human body just can't take that level of angelic power.
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That Hideous Strength / int_d8ec79d5	comment	Benevolent Alien Invasion: The eldila, peaceful aliens who live in the vacuum of space, have covertly infiltrated Earth to undo the corruption caused by the Bent One. There's even a rumor the master of the eldila, Maleldil the Young, has personally intervened in the matter.
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That Hideous Strength / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A downplayed example: Ivy Maggs couldn't handle the discussions about opening a decapitated man's head (that was being kept alive artificially) and experimenting with the My Brain Is Big trope, so she declared she'd had enough and left the room. She didn't abandon the good guys; she just walked away from that conversation. When the Curse of Babel was beginning to take effect near the book's climax, one of the sociology department side-characters, Cosser, jumped up and ran from the room. Many other characters did the same shortly afterwards, and they end up survivors of the fiasco. Though we aren't told whether the curse affected them as well.
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That Hideous Strength / int_de36f5c6	comment	When the Curse of Babel was beginning to take effect near the book's climax, one of the sociology department side-characters, Cosser, jumped up and ran from the room. Many other characters did the same shortly afterwards, and they end up survivors of the fiasco. Though we aren't told whether the curse affected them as well.
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That Hideous Strength / int_de80e030	type	Social Climber
That Hideous Strength / int_de80e030	comment	Social Climber: Mark started doing this while still in school, abandoning his genuine but tragically unpopular friend to be In with the In Crowd, unaware that the In Crowd are basically working for Satan.
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That Hideous Strength / int_df1baa1f	comment	Love Is in the Air: "Venus at St. Annes'", the last chapter of That Hideous Strength. The goddess of love's influence over humans and animals gets them in a mating-mood, and this is treated as good and proper for the animals and for the married humans.
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That Hideous Strength / int_e03070b7	type	Dystopia Justifies the Means
That Hideous Strength / int_e03070b7	comment	Dystopia Justifies the Means: The N.I.C.E.'s eventual aim is Transhumanism, with mankind replaced with a new and "superior" form of life.
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That Hideous Strength / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
That Hideous Strength / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Subverted. Feverstone tries to cash out during the Belbury disaster, then finds he's folded 'em half a dozen hands too late.
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That Hideous Strength / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: "Fairy" Hardcastle. She's definitely butch, but her lesbianism is implied rather than stated outright. Comes across like a more discreet version of the Girls Behind Bars butch jailer stereotype.
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That Hideous Strength / int_e75be4b3	type	MacGuffin Super-Person
That Hideous Strength / int_e75be4b3	comment	MacGuffin Super-Person: The entire reason N.I.C.E. wants Bragdon Wood is to find Merlin, who they know is entombed there. They want him for his magical knowledge, but this particular MacGuffin Person turns out to have will of his own and, upon waking, goes to join the heroes. Jane is sought after by both sides for her Dreaming of Things to Come and Dream Spying abilities.
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That Hideous Strength / int_e7bffa82	comment	Sarcastic Devotee: MacPhee, the only member of Ransom's True Companions who doesn't share his Christian faith.
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That Hideous Strength / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Merlin, although ultimately on the side of good, doesn't really fit within the modern framework of good and evil. One of the better examples of Deliberate Values Dissonance. This is actually a plot point in the story; one of the reasons that the protagonists wish to locate Merlin is because he lived in a time when practicing magic was acceptable. This allows them the luxury of having magic abilities on their side despite such things normally being forbidden in the modern era as witchcraft. Merlin is basically an ethical loophole.
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That Hideous Strength / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: The N.I.C.E. turns out to be like this; when Hingest decides they have nothing to do with science and everything to do with fascism and transhumanism and tries to leave, they send thugs to assassinate him. They try to pin the murder on Studdock, too, when he in turn tries to leave them.
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That Hideous Strength / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Aged vocabulary throughout the novels aside, Ransom describing the transition of the human body from earthly pleasures to heavenly pleasures (during the events of Perelandra) as 'Transsexual' in particular is even more awkward now than it was back then.
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That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Crazy Homeless People / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Crucial Cross / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Curse of Babel / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Deity of Human Origin / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Demonic Possession / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Designer Babies / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Determined Defeatist / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Escaped Animal Rampage / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Evil Reactionary / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Four Eyes, Zero Soul / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	God's Hands Are Tied / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Hysterical Woman / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Inelegant Blubbering / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Interplanetary Voyage / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Interspecies Friendship / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	King in the Mountain / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Losing Your Head / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Lunarians / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	MacGuffin Super-Person / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Masquerade Enforcer / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Medicate the Medium / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Moving the Goalposts / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	My Brain is Big / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	No Sex Allowed / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Officer O'Hara / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Oracular Head / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Oral Fixation / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Peace & Love Incorporated / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Pose of Silence / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Possessing a Dead Body / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Propaganda Machine / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Psycho Lesbian / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Resignations Not Accepted / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Room 101 / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Sadist / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Scale of Scientific Sins / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Secret Police / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Seemingly Profound Fool / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Sexbot / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Social Climber / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom / int_90304058
ThatHideousStrength	seeAlso	That Hideous Strength
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	The Baroness / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	The Magic Comes Back / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	The Magic Goes Away / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Torture for Fun and Information / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Tower of Babel / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Transhuman Aliens / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Transhumans in Space / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_90304058
That Hideous Strength	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_90304058

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