#446: Becoming a Thing in Marriage

C.S. Lewis's *That Hideous Strength*, Vol. I

TLDR: Shakespeare saves Lewis’s vision of marriage.

“Matrimony” is the first word of C.S. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength. Jane Studdock has been married to her husband Mark for all of six months, and already they are alienated from each other. Mark is occupied with his work, while Jane lacks the “mutual society, help, and comfort” that marriage was…