From famous children’s novels rise famous villains, the name of whom almost everyone knows, and anyone could tell you their story, their evil deeds, and the name of the hero who was ultimately clever enough to lead them to their downfall. C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series is no exception, and although it is home for countless different villains, one seems to rise above the rest, and her name is mentioned in whispers throughout the entire series after her appearance in the first book. The White Queen is first spoken of in the first book of the series, The Magician’s Nephew when lost adventurers Polly and Diggory find her in her home world of Charn, where she is known as Jadis. She ultimately follows them into Narnia, where she begins to establish her reputation in the supposed thousand years between the first book and the second. In the most famous of the Narnia books, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the White Queen is the most vile of all beings ever known in Narnia, she has cast the ‘Hundred-Year Winter’ over Narnia, and she is known for her manipulative presence, and her ability to turn living beings to stone. In the first two books of the series, Jadis, the White Queen, consistently uses her powers of her stature and fear along with manipulation to coerce and frighten the beings over which she rules; these tactics earn her the reputation of villainy.
The first book of the Narnia series is The Magician’s Nephew, the book functions as a sort of prologue to the other books, giving context for some of the most famous characters and also how Narnia itself was created. At the start of the book, two young children, Polly and Digory become friends through being neighbors with each other. Digory has just recently moved into the house he...
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...and powerful sorceress, but it is her non-magical ‘powers’ that help her the most in her ascension to power. Over and over again in both books, the author, C.S. Lewis shows the White Queen using her immense stature, her ability to instill fear, and her naturally manipulative traits to build an army and an empire in Narnia.
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1Lewis, C. S.. The Chronicles of Narnia: the Magician's Nephew.. New York: Harper Collins,
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2Lewis, C. S., and Pauline Baynes. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The
Wardrobe. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. Print.
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The Hobbit This hobbit was a hobbit, and his name was Baggins. Baggins had lived in the neighborhood of ”The Hill” some time, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most or them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected. You could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbors’ respect, but he gained- well, you will see what he gained in the end.
C.S Lewis is the author of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Warrdrobe. Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. He was born Clive Staples Lewis to Flora August Hamilton Lewis and Albert J. Lewis. Lewis’s mother passed away when he was on ten years old. After his mother died he went on to get his pre-college education at boarding schools and he also received help from a tutor. Lewis served in World War I with the English Army, but unfortunately was sent home when he was wounded. Lewis was a graduate of Oxford University with a focus on classic philosophy and literature. As a child, he was disappointed with the Christian faith, but when he became older he found himself embracing Christianity. During World War II, he gave popular radio broadcasts on Christianity and they won many converts. Lewis’ speeches were collected in Mere Christianity. In the year of 1954, C.S. Lewis joined the staff of Cambridge University as a literature professor. He met an English teacher by the name of Joy Gresham and in 1956 they married each other and became a happily married family. The two were joyful during their marriage; unfortunately in 1960, the wife became ill with cancer died. Lewis began publishing his works in the mid- 1920s. Lewis started to publish The Chronicles of Narnia during the 1950s. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first in the seven book series to be released. This was the story of four siblings who discovered a wardrobe with a magical land in the back of it (“Clives…”). In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis describes Aslan, Edmund, and Lucy.
Queen Jadis is a seven-foot tall woman of extreme power and domination. The two friends quickly realize how all she wants is to cast a spell to kill all living things in order to rule over her sister, and because of this, they try to travel back to their world as quickly as possible. In the process, Queen Jadis holds onto Polly’s hair and ends up back on earth with them. After being home for not a long amount of time, Uncle Andrew becomes scared of Jadis and turns into her servant. The kids soon realize they have to get her back to Churn before she ruins anything in their world, so they head back to the attic with the Queen, Uncle Andrew, a cab horse, a cab driver and the two children. As they return to the Wood between the Worlds, they jump into what they believe is the pool for Churn but turns out being another world, Narnia. They are welcomed by a singing lion, Aslan. Aslan welcomes the newcomers but becomes upset with them for bringing Queen Jadis into his world. When Jadis realizes how upset Aslan is, she runs away. For he calls her a “force of evil”, and in order for Aslan to forgive them, they have to bring him back a magical apple so he can create a shield to where Queen Jadis can never come to Narnia again. As the
The White Witch is the most evil person in Narnia. “The White Witch is pure evil and tries to kill everyone who stands in her way of being queen of Narnia” (Persson 6). Here the reader is witnessing a figure that is truly evil and just wants to rule Narnia; so it can be hers, and so she
...hey are made to try his experiment for teleportation. The children travel to different worlds and are followed back by a witch who, after destroying her own world, wants to rule theirs. The children work together to stop the witch and send her back to her original world. Unfortunately, the place they expect to go is not where they end up, which results in the witch escaping in to the newly created world of Narnia. On the bright side, Diggory nourishes his mother back to health and plants a tree which will later be used to build a wardrobe that becomes a doorway to Narnia. Because The Magician’s Nephew is written late in the series, the reader, who already knows about Narnia, learns how Narnia came into being and how the human race became involved there.
In his novel The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald has cleverly crafted an underground society populated by a distorted and "ludicrously grotesque" race. Within the body of his tale, he reveals that these people are descended from humans, and did in fact, once upon a time, live upon the surface themselves. Only eons of living separated from fresh air and sunlight have caused them to evolve into the misshapen creatures we meet in this story (MacDonald, 2-4). MacDonald calls the beings goblins, and while they certainly may fit that definition from a 19th century point of view, they are far more akin to the dwarves that we have come to know from classic stories like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and popular games like "Dungeons & Dragons," as well as countless movies, cartoons and video games. Still, it is clear that MacDonald had a considerable knowledge of folklore and mythology and that he drew upon that background to help evoke and manifest a convincing culture of underground dwellers, or little folk.
Throughout the novel Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie explicitly illuminates gender stereotypes and paternal and maternal qualities of the Victorian era. In the early 20th century, patriarchal society strictly defined men and women’s roles in the community. Traditionally, men were expected to attain manhood in the eyes of other men in society, find a spouse, achieve success and respect, provide for their wife and family, work through hardships, live adventurously, and financially succeed. A woman’s main role in life was her responsibilities to her family- primarily seen as wives, mothers, and caretakers, with her place being in a domestic setting. Through Peter Pan, Mr. and Mrs. Darling, Wendy, and Peter Pan each adhere to the classic gender stereotypes and paternal and maternal characteristics of the early 20th century in their own unique way.
The Princess and the Frog. Dir Ron Clements and John Musker. Perf. Anika Noni Rose, Bruno
The Dark Tower – Stephen King The Dark Tower is a series of stories that follow the main character, Roland "The Last Gunslinger", as he travels across a harsh desert on a mission to find the "man in black". His mission is to make it safely to the Tower in order to save himself and the very existence of the universe. The entire series revolves around the tower and how essential it is. The tower is a central point where different planes of existence merge and if Roland doesn't make it there before it gets destroyed then everything else will be destroyed along with it.
Lewis, C. S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. Print.
The moon has been worshipped as a female deity since the beginning of time. Not only is the moon a feminine principle, it is also a symbol of transformation due to its own monthly cycle of change. With this in mind, it is clear upon a close reading of The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald that the grandmother figure is a personification of the moon, and as such is a catalyzing agent for Irene's maturation and transformation through the course of the novel. Taking this a step further, the elder Irene contains the threefold aspect of the Moon Goddess. She is Artemis, Selene, and Hecate; the crescent moon, the full moon, and the dark moon; maiden, mother, and crone (Rush, 149).
Nowadays, children books are full field with morals and lesson to teach children how to behave and react in real life situations. A classic subject that teaches children is the rivalry between good and bad, where good defeats bad after a battle. An example of a children novel that explores in different ways the good versus the bad is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written by C.S Lewis. The author of this novel uses literary elements to demonstrate the idea of good and evil, an example of which would be characterisation. Aslan and the White Witch embody the characteristics of the good and the evil, two of which are their physical and psychological descriptions and their actions in the novel.
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.
understand, so he took Digory over to the group. Digory was brought there to tell everyone how the evil queen got into the land of Narnia. He did, and he was forgiven. After this event, Polly and the horse owner came to the group. The owner is somehow recognized by the lion, but nobody knows how.
The Narnia Chronicles have already established themselves as timeless works of literature. They appeal to both the atheists and the God-fearing, to both the uneducated and to scholars; to children and adults. An understanding of the Biblical allegory in these books is not essential to their appreciation. A critical analysis of these works, however, does allow the reader to more fully appreciate Lewis' unique gift to simplify complex narratives and craft beautiful children's fantasies. This, in turn, allows the reader to gain both a deeper understanding of Lewis as a skilled creative writer, and a deeper satisfaction of his art. To be able to appreciate C.S. Lewis as such an artisan can only add to one's enjoyment of his works.