Mark’s contemplating over his decisions and his reunion with Jane causes him to question himself and his life morals, therefore, relating to Oikophilia and the message of loving one’s “home” and not turning against it. In C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength, Chapter 17 begins with Mark pondering why he made the choices that he did, as he compared them to Jane’s choices. This is shown when Lewis writes, “In fact, he was going to see Jane in what he now felt to be her proper world. But not his. For he now thought that with all his life-long eagerness to reach an inner circle he had chosen the wrong circle. Jane was where she belonged. He was going to be admitted only out of kindness, because Jane had been a fool enough to marry him. He did not resent it, but he felt shy. He was himself as his new inner circle must see him- as one more little vulgarian, just like the Steeles and the Cossers, dull, inconspicuous, frightened, calculating, cold. He wondered vaguely why he was like that” (Lewis 358). In this passage, Mark questions what he has become and why he chose to be a part of the “wrong” inner circle, while Jane had found the right circle for herself. He essentially hid things from his wife and denied the danger of the NICE to himself, which inevitably led to complications and his questioning of it all. Jane and her decisions for himself represent the flaws in Mark’s decisions and how he went against what he knew as “home” in order to satisfy his desires of rising to the top. This relates to a point in Roger Scruton’s How To Think Seriously About The Planet, as he discusses Oikophilia, which is the love of one’s home. Scruton mentions this when he writes, “Oikophilia originates in our need for nurture and safety, but it spreads out across our surroundings in more mysterious and less self-serving ways. It is a call to responsibility, and a rebuke to exploit. It tells us to love, and not to use; to respect and not to exploit. It invites us to look at things in our ‘homescape’ as we look on persons, not as only means, but as ends in themselves” (Scruton 253). Scruton discusses how Oikophilia means to love your home and the things that are important to you instead of “using” and “exploiting” them. In That Hideous Strength, Mark goes against his “home”, which is his marriage with Jane and his morals to do good things, and instead secretly joins NICE and begins to become a part of the “wrong”, corrupt inner circle. Although Mark may have been in denial about what NICE really was, he still kept things from Jane and decided to become a part of a destructive and dangerous group. Overall, Mark lost sight of what was important and turned against his “home”, which in the end, caused him to regret his decisions.