The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Where Christianity Comes to Life through a Fantasy Tale Have you ever dreamed of a world so much different than ours? One that is full of magic and danger and creatures beyond your wildest imagination? Discovering a whole new world found at the back of a wardrobe? Maybe if one understood how an author used his own life to write this novel, it would make more sense. As a result of expanding on some of his own life experiences, Clives Staples Lewis composed a best-selling novel in 1950 that is to be enjoyed by many generations to come. His service in World War I, views on Christianity, and memories from his early childhood all heavily influenced C.S. Lewis to write his allegorical novel, The Lion, the Witch, …show more content…
Lewis's childhood home and experiences. Born in the suburbs of Belfast, Ireland, his family lived in their country home in which they called “Little Lea” (“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”). This was very similar in appearance to the country home in which Lewis described in his novel. His home had long corridors, and secret nooks. Lucy, one of the children in the novel, describes the home as "a far larger house than she had ever been in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy" (Lewis 4-5). In the attic of Lewis's home, he and his brother Warren would spend days making up stories about imaginary and magical worlds. In the novel, when Lucy first discovered Narnia through the wardrobe, her siblings thought she was just being childish and making up stories. Lewis used his imagination from when he was a boy and gave it to Lucy in the novel. In the attic in his childhood home was a black oak wardrobe, which was hand-carved by Lewis's grandfather ("The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"). Lewis and his brother would sit in the wardrobe in the dark and tell stories. This is where his creative quality came into play. The wardrobe played a major symbolic role in the novel because that is where all the magic took
The Strongest Force Against Hate;An analysis of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford's book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet tells the story of a boy named Henry. The reader is shown two different perspectives of Henry, Henry in the 1960s and Henry in the 1940s. 1940s Henry experiences love and strife when he meets Keiko, his first lover. Keiko experiences hate and discrimination due to the prejudice towards Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fiction in which one of the main characters, the sturdy lion Aslan, has the most power and authority. There are tons of images of Aslan from the book and the movie that relate to Jesus in Bible. The most outstanding images are the death of Aslan on top of the stone table which represents the crucifixion of Jesus, Aslan’s rebirth which is similar to the Resurrection of Jesus, and Aslan’s offering the stone statues life just as the figure of God made everything. Shortly, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe includes a number of biblical images that are the details from the Bible which were reflected by the book and the movie.
WWII likewise affected Lewis. Stone describes where the ideas of Narnia came from. During the war children shook refuge in
Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, to his parents, Albert and Florentine Lewis. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Clive had one older brother, Warren, and became best friends as they grew older. Clive was four years old when he told everyone to call him Jackie. Following suit to his younger brother, Warren also changed his name, and chose Warnie. Jackie and his family moved to a house called Little Lea in the countryside. Jackie’s many activities included riding his bike, exploring Little Lea, and reading and writing stories. Jackie wrote his first book when he was seven years old, and titled it Boxen. His favorite books to read were about Viking legends, medieval knights, and myths. When Lewis was nine years old, Flora,
C.S Lewis is a very popular author who has written the Narnia books and also many other. These books are loved by many and also very much appreciated by others. He is able to suck a reader into the book they pick up and leave them wanting more. The settings, the dialogue, and the characters in the novel are very well developed. He has written many books, and does this in every book of his. The Narnia books are very fun to read and will leave the reader amazed. The characters portrayed in the novel are given very life like personalities when spoken about. He will explain everything on the character up to the last scratch on them.
In the story, four English children move into a large old country house in the aftermath of evacuation after a war. The youngest of the four children pays visits to Narnia thrice through the magic of wardrobe from a spare room. On her third visit, all the four children are together, and this verifies her fantastic claims and includes the chapters 12-17.in Narnia, the siblings fulfill an old prophecy, and they are soon adventuring for saving their lives and Narnia. In the novel version of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis uses development, morality and symbolism. This paper discusses the differences in morals between the novel and movie version of the chronicles of Narnia. Lewis uses morality as a means of rallying the reader behind a character and inspiring them to continue supporting them through the
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first of several novels in the C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. These books tell stories of another universe that is called Narnia. Here there are many unearthly things from talking animals and evil witches. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the story of four young siblings who discover this new world by entering a wardrobe. Little did they know, they were destined to become the new royalty of Narnia but only after going through many battles. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis analyzes the character Lucy, the theme of good versus evil, and the parallels of Narnia to other literature and Lewis’s life.
“Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance, and respect all the creatures from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope,” said Mufasa, a supporting character in the film depiction of Walt Disney’s: The Lion King (1994). The Lion King is a timeless archetypal work that time after time has given youth hope and has shown them that courage is not always innate, but can be learned from just living life with a little “hakuna matata”. The Lion King, through the use of classic archetype, vivid surrealism, and iconic symbolism, shows a coming to age story that shows children that life is an adventure worth the trouble.
Some of the largest questions that are present in Christianity are centered around how God reaches out to human beings. Throughout Christianity’s history, this question has been answered and reanswered many times with different results each time. One person who thoroughly answered this question in chapters eight, nine, and ten of his biography, The Confession, was Augustine of Hippo. Throughout this biography, he goes through the struggles, successes, and ultimately the way that God reached out to him throughout his own conversion to Christianity. Augustine explains that God reaches out to humans by the examples of others and changes in their own personal lives.
Rhetoric refers to the study of the ways speakers and writers utilizes words in influencing the audience. Therefore, a rhetorical analysis refers to the essay where a non-fiction work is broken down into parts and it is used in the creation of a specific effect. A rhetorical analysis must assess the goals of the rhetorician, the tools used and the effectiveness of those tools. In writing a rhetorical analysis, one does not argue on the tools used but instead discusses the ways the rhetorician makes an argument and whether he or she uses a successful approach. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fiction novel for children which was written by C.S. Lewis and was published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is regarded as one of the renowned and first published novels of The Chronicles of Narnia and it is held in libraries. Most parts of the novel are set in Narnia, which is believed to be a land with talking animals and mythical creatures ruling into the deep winter. This paper seeks to compare the novel and movie adaptation of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis emphasizes the three points of philosophy, themes, and symbolism throughout his writing. Lewis was a strong Christian man, and wanted to make children see and understand all the stories of the Bible. Therefore, he put Christian elements through his books, but with fantasy characters as well. Especially in this story, Lewis conveys the differences between good and evil. Aslan is represented as Christ just as the White Witch represents the sense of evil. Lewis wrote several books in this Narnia series, but The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe became the most famous and recognized of his novels.
However, the cost of excluding these individuals from employment also causes an economic burden, as it is simultaneously a great loss of human capital, and a drain on government-provided welfare (Huxley 289), when these people could be making money themselves. Lower income also prevents people from participating in leisure activities, which is an important part of socialization. As a result, psychiatric patients tend to report a lower number of social contacts, which is harmful to mental health (Huxley 290). Out of those who do manage to obtain employment, the majority expect to experience stigma in the workplace (Stuart 523), such as tensions between coworkers, as well as resentment over special accommodations (Levy 202). At the same time,
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is a fascinating, adventurous journey about 4 siblings traveling through a magical wardrobe to a land called Narnia. As they explore the land, they learn of its destiny and free it from the evil white witch, with the help of a majestic lion.
When having to reflect upon the movies I have seen and trying and pinpoint a few that have made a spiritual impact on me without me even noticing, was very difficult. So, I took to Google and realized that one of my favorite series, The Chronicles of Narnia, is almost based on Christianity itself. One movie, in particular, probably the most well known is The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. The movie is found to have Christian themes. The writer of the novels the films are based on has religious views in almost all the books. This film adaption of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is filled with hidden religious content. For instance, Aslan is seen to be Jesus Christ, Jadis is Satan, and the plot of the movie follows the resurrection
Narnia's first characteristic of note is the portal through which it is reached the wardrobe. By connecting the secondary world with the first, real' one, rather than simply beginning the story within Narnia, Lewis is able to introduce thoughts about truth and