C.S. Lewis tells a tale to us about four children who, with their bravery and optimism, seek a far out land through a wardrobe called the Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis had always thought of Narnia in his allegory as a “parallel fictional universe.” Lewis differentiates supposal and allegory through his letters that he wrote to some of the fans that fell in love with the Chronicles of Narnia. A letter from a fifth grade class in Maryland asked if basically Lewis was portraying Aslan as Jesus in Narnia like how we see Jesus in the real world. That was not the case, as Lewis “supposes that there was land in Narnia and that the Son of God, as he became a man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would happen?” I think what Lewis …show more content…
was trying to explain is that you see things for what they are. A Lion is vicious and brave and in our world Jesus was just a man like everyone else and many people did not trust in the things he could do. One writer, Philinda Krieg, has a son named Lawrence who falls in love with Aslan and makes him the apple of his eye throughout the series and Lewis does not support this decision because as he mentions, Lawrence is just in awe of Aslan because he can’t help it and the things that Aslan does is quite similar to the things that Jesus has done. The only main difference would be the body of the Lion but if Lawrence thinks the Lion-body is more suitable than there is no need to negotiate. In the first book “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” Lewis takes four children out of a tragic time in history and sets them up to take on an adventure of a lifetime.
Lucy, the youngest is the kindest of all and has a very optimistic personality. Edmund can be cruel sometimes and feels as if he can’t be the alfa male in the family and lead, but with the help of his siblings and Aslan later on, he shows compassion. Susan, the eldest sister, shows that she is her own person and can fight any fight no matter the way she looks. Lastly, we have Peter, the brave and courageous one of the family who makes sure everyone is safe and taken care of. I think that Lewis chose these types of personalities for his books because it gives you a wide range and does not leave you in a tight boring spot. As the book goes on, Lucy becomes the leader, especially in finding Narnia in the first place and making her mark. The four rise up and defeat the white witch, who I think was a perfect antagonist for the series at it is drug on. In “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” Lucy and Edmund are sent off to their Uncle’s house for the summer. A new character is emerged, their wicked cousin, Eustace. He had a very snobby attitude and things had to go his way or no way at all. Eustace props himself directly in Narnia through an oil painting of a ship that Lucy and Edmund were admiring its moving blue waves for. They were set on an adventure of Aslan’s home land and the great islands where Caspian’s
father had vanished from. How I think these two books represent allegory is taking a fantasy and representing it through the Bible. Aslan for one, represents Jesus and his leadership through the community. Also, I think that Plato can be related because he vouched that we gained knowledge through our senses and what we know. For instance, when Lucy told her siblings about Narnia they did not believe her what so ever because it was hard to imagine which caused Lucy to feel like she had been imagining all along. Though when she went back at a second time to see through the wardrobe, her eyes were telling the truth. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” three prisoners had to remain staring at a wall that had a fire behind them and a walk way in front of them that people traveled on. As one prisoner was free he could tell that the shadows he saw her of his own and that the other prisoners were just like him. Everything is what is seems sometimes and I agree completely with Professor Livingston’s proposition of allegory.
Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist and the Disney film The Lion King directed by Allers and Minkoff,
“Even the distant farmsteads she could see served only to intensify a sense of isolation” (Door, 48).
After his conversion, C.S. Lewis' writings became less modernistic. Many of his most famous writings, such as Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Chronicles of Narnia series contain his Christian worldview (Stewart 1), which was completely opposite of the mode...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, has sold over 100 million copies and is translated into about 50 different languages, in about 17 years. Another popular book that was written by C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, has also sold over 100 million copies and has been translated into around 47 languages, since it was published in the 1950’s. These two amazing authors have written many other popular books, but the connection between The Hobbit and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is rare. The two novels were loved by so many people that they were made into movies and are part of a sequel. The discoveries that can be made about the two authors, novels, and the connections between the books are extraordinary.
The analogy breaks down messages that are revealed in the Bible in order for the average person to understand what it being said, similar to how Jesus used parables to explain his teachings to mass audiences. The people listening to Jesus’ sermons weren’t very educated and had little prior knowledge about who Jesus was. He had to make his sermons relatable to the audience, just as C.S. Lewis does with his readers. Within the novel, Lewis also only covers what he considered the “basic teaching of orthodox Christianity.” Many theologists either focused on details that were unimportant to a new believer, or they wrote in ways that were difficult for the average person to understand. Lewis did not see himself as educated enough to provide a detailed theological and historical explanation of the doctrines that he discusses, but because of the lack of simplicity in religious works of literature, he strove to educate people on the basic outline of Christian beliefs (Mueller). Lewis explained his purpose for writing Mere Christianity in an interesting way,
The symbolism between C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the fourth book in The Chronicles of Narnia, and the New Testament in the Bible, particularly the account of Jesus’ death is not merely coincidental because The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is, in fact, an allegory. An allegory is a story with morals in which characters, plots and settings are used as symbols. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis is rich with Christian symbolism even though the allegorical nature of it is the subject of much controversy. Nonetheless, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is an allegory. In this tale, four ordinary children find a wardrobe that leads them into Narnia, an extraordinary land parallel to our universe with talking animal and fantasy creatures. An evil witch has cast a spell of eternal winter over the land and has lured one of the children into betraying the others for enchanted Turkish Delights. Meanwhile, a magical lion, the nemesis of the witch, has arrived after a 100-year absence because of the betrayal of Edmund and ancient prophecies. Soon the children find themselves as involved in the battle as the other creatures and the lion must free Narnia from the clutches of the evil witch and atones for Edmund’s betrayal. The symbolism in the characters, plots, setting, miscellaneous things and themes prove Narnia is, indeed, allegorical
How many times can one be lied to or deceived in a short period of time? In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Clive Staples Lewis, he writes a story about four children and their adventures in Narnia. These four children are deceived to many times throughout the novel. The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, Lewis used the symbol of the Great White Stag, the archetype of the evil figure with the ultimate good heart, and the symbol of the Turkish Delight to convey to his readers’ deception in the novel.
C.S. Lewis was the 20th century’s most popular proponent of faith based on reason. As a child, he created an imaginary world where personified animals came to life, and later, he wrote the book, Chronicles of Narnia. How did he transform from a boy fascinated with anthropomorphic animals into a man of immense faith? His transformation to the Christian religion happened as his fame began to flourish. People wrote him, asking him about his claims about the truth of Christianity (Belmonte, Kevin). As I attended the drama of Freud’s Last Session, I was engrossed into the plot of the play and was constantly thinking about how it pertained to the objectives of the World Literature class. I not only connected the content of the play to its context, but I also reached out to apply the context to a discussion on a broader scale. I then discovered why the context of literature is imperative for true understanding of the w...
Have you ever wanted to free yourself from the terrors and troublesome times of modern society and escape to a magical place? Clive Staples Lewis, or C.S. Lewis as he is better known, created such a place, in his extremely popular children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia. In these books, Lewis has an underlying message about Christianity. He represents four key aspects of Christianity in this series: Christ and God, evil in the world, and faith.
Fiction has always been used as a way to relay different types of messages throughout time. In many cases authors use fiction to make political commentary, use stories to bring out the major flaws that society has, as well as a way to spread different types of beliefs or ideals. C.S. Lewis’s used his work, “The Chronicles of Narnia”, to reiterate the messages of the Bible to those who might have gotten lost during their lifetime. Though his whole series was full of connections the book that have the most prevalent connections are The Magician’s Nephew and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In both there are places that are very similar to and very different books in the Bible. Taking into context when Lewis wrote this series is extremely important to see what some of his motivations might have been. These stories were started soon after World War II had ended. These stories were a way to teach the next generation some of the morals that the Bible was teaching. By creating these fantastical stories Lewis was able to make connections to help bridge the learning gap between the two generations. Also by using children as a target audience Lewis was able to remind adults as well, instead of being ignored because of the recent war. Lewis was able to address these lessons and morals in a way that both taught the children the way of the Bible, as well as to put a new spin on old tales so that adults were able to come back to religion, after losing some faith during the brutal war.
It is amazing how a seemingly educated woman that has won Oscar awards for her documentaries, could possibly be so far off base in her review of the Disney movie “The Lion King”. Margaret Lazarus has taken a movie made for the entertainment of children and turned it into something that is racist, sexist and stereotypes gender roles. She uses many personal arguments to review the movie but offers few solutions. The author is well organized but she lacks alternate points of view and does not use adequate sources. Lazarus utilizes the statement at the end of her review that “the Disney Magic entranced her children, but they and millions of other children were given hidden messages that could only do them and us harm” (118). She makes her point by saying that “the Disney Magic reinforces and reproduces bigoted and stereotyped views of minorities and women in our society” (Lazarus 117). She makes comparisons such as elephant graveyards are like ghettos (Lazarus 118). Other lines of reasoning Lazarus gives us are about Whoopie Goldberg using inner city dialect, the villain Scar being gay, and only those born to privilege can bring about change (118).
The Chronicles of Narnia are veritably the most popular writings of C.S. Lewis. They are known as children’s fantasy literature, and have found favor in older students and adults alike, even many Christian theologians enjoy these stories from Lewis; for there are many spiritual truths that one can gleam from them, if familiar with the Bible. However, having said this, it is noteworthy to say that Lewis did not scribe these Chronicles for allegorical didactics of the Christian faith, but wrote them in such a well-knit fashion that young readers might understand Christian doctrine through captivating fantasy and thus gain an appreciation for it. With this in mind, and in the interest of this assignment, the purpose of this paper is an attempt to analyze one of the many doctrines of the Christian faith from The Lion, The Witch, And, The Wardrobe (LWW), namely, temptation and how Lewis illustrates it through an individual character, Edmund.
C.S. Lewis uses a secondary world, Narnia, to convey complex, thought-provoking messages to readers of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. This paper examines the way a selection of Narnia's key characteristics prompt debates over logic and faith, comment on the nature of spiritual and metaphysical journeys, allow readers to broaden their conception of their own capabilities, encourage new reflection on the story of Christ and help to clarify conceptions of good and evil.
In the Narnia series there are many books. The Magician’s Nephew is the first book to start off the series, after comes The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Polly was one of the main characters in “The Magician’s Nephew” and Lucy is one of the main characters in “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. These two characters have some stuff common and also have their differences.
Some things were different between Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast the Graphic Novel and Beauty and the Beast, the movie like, in the movie the main character was named Belle, in both the books the main character was named Beauty. In the movie there were talking household items like a clock and a candelabra, in both of the books there were no talking inanimate objects. In both the books Beauty was honored in the town for her beauty and youth, in the movie Belle was called a “funny girl” and people always thought of her as strange because she reads. In the books Beauty has two sisters but in the movie Belle has none. In the movie Belle’s father is kept in the beast’s castle until Belle comes to rescue him, but in the books Beauty’s