107 - That Hideous Strength, Pt. 1: Mark, Jane, and the NICE

Watch the video:https://youtu.be/6nouFFhsDKs Preface through Chapter 6: Mark Studdock is recruited into the NICE, Jane begins to dream, and their marriage frays as Belbury's soft totalitarianism starts to look like ordinary careerism. That Hideous Strength opens not with monsters, but with two people being pulled apart. In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) tracks the early chapters where Mark, Jane, and the NICE show how progress, expertise, and institutional belonging begin to reshape what each can still see as real. Topics include the NICE's recruitment logic, the fracture between Mark and Jane, and how Lewis stages the first steps toward Belbury before the novel's more overt spiritual warfare arrives. Related: • That Hideous Strength, Pt. 3: Logres Against Belbury (Mythic Mind, ep. 109): https://youtu.be/PrNMmmozb2U • BBC That Hideous Strength: What the Audio Drama Left Out (Mythic Mind, ep. 82): https://youtu.be/zKDYnt8ziII • Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8 • Out of the Silent Planet: Cosmic Hierarchy and Human Bentness (Mythic Mind, ep. 99): https://youtu.be/0mLWBTYRhy0 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship:https://mythicmindfellowship.c... Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows #MythicMind #CSLewis #ThatHideousStrength #SpaceTrilogy #Belbury #NICE #Theology #PhilosophyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.