One of the main themes in both the Perelandra and Paradise Lost books is innocence. In a story, innocence remains intact and is never lost for all eternity. The other story takes a different turn and the innocence is lost forever. Both stories are based on a decision that affects the fate of entire races. Innocence is a state that begins only with the initial creation of a being; consequently, it can be lost only once, never to be regained by man, or it can remain in place, never to be lost. According to Webster's New World College Dictionary, innocence is "freedom from sin or moral error" (737). However, if the Bible teaches that all men are sinners (see Romans 3:23), how could anyone be innocent? C.S. Lewis, John Milton, and the Bible all teach that man was created in a perfect state of existence - something unfathomable considering man's current state. Milton describes Adam and Eve as “living creatures new to the sight and strange” (Milton, 287). This statement implies that Adam and Eve were created pure and aware of sin. In Perelandra, the Green Lady, who...