Danielle Hawkins: the dangers of pleasure

     In Perelandra, Ransom discovers a fruit and he thinks that "one draught of this on earth wars would be fought and nations betrayed" (37). He had a rather spiritual encounter when he first tasted it. I imagine that all hunger and thirst was lifted from him and bliss was achieved the instant he took a sip of it. Something with this sort of weight, is dangerous. The question I want to ask people is should this sort of object that could cause such a disarray be allowed to exist or be accessed to all? I find it crazy that an object could cause such an intense division. I think of in our own world how things such as oil cause divisions and war between people. This does not come close in comparison of the weight I think this fruit Ransom found. Do pleasures such as this exist in our world? If these sorts of items do exist, I do not think I would want to partake in them. If it would cause me to go to war with others it would not be worth it for me. I say this now but I also would not know unless I was in that situation. Now I don't think we should be denied of all pleasure. I think when things are had in moderation they can be a good thing. Once injustices enter the picture and people take pleasures and start withholding it from people, I think real problems occur. In the case that Ransom is referring to, it seem like that fruit has a power over people that causes a selfishness that would turn people against each other. I wonder what he did to stop himself from having more or not exploiting it. 

What inspired Lewis to put this fruit in his book?