Professor Weston - Weston's End

Weston's End

Weston’s animated corpse continues to make a considerable nuisance of itself, tempting the Lady of Perelandra (the new Eve) into corruption, while Ransom tries to undo the damage the Un-man (Ransom’s name for Weston’s animated body) is making. Eventually Ransom, realizing that he will not verbally be able to defeat the Un-man—and motivated by Maleldil—physically attacks the Un-man and both are badly wounded during the ensuing fight.

Weston's consciousness appears to occasionally resurface, but it is impossible to distinguish whether anything he says after this point is Weston or the Devil working through him. Indeed, Ransom (and, presumably by extension, Lewis) comes to the conclusion that:

‘…it made little difference. There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle held over the gas ring. The question whether Satan, or one whom Satan has digested, is acting on any given occasion, has in the long run no clear significance.’

Weston’s body is eventually destroyed beyond repair by Ransom in the tunnels beneath Perelandra’s crust and rolled into a pit of subterranean fire.

Ransom, having carved a monument to the great physicist into the wall on the outside of the caverns, leaves the innards of Perelandra behind him, and makes his way up the Fixed Land, to meet the angels, and the rest of his adventure.