Essay On Edmund In The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

Edmund is the most methodical in his deceptions. Both he and his brother seem oddly adept at trickery, but Edmund fooled his brother and his father. First he forges a letter to turn Gloucester against Edgar. Then he convinces Edgar to leave, which will only make the legitimate son look guilty. He tells him that he has read the stars and that Edgar should flee. While Edmund does not believe astrology works, he is very intelligent and knows that he can use it to his advantage. He uses this to maintain his visage of innocence. Continuing the charade, he convinces his father to

The power that makes Edmund corrupt is trust. He uses the trust to manipulate and control his father for the benefit of himself. He frames his brother by composing a false letter to his father implicating a plot to kill Gloucester, that when “our father would sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue forever.” (1, 2, 55-56) Gloucester replies with “this villain of mine comes under the prediction of mine: there’s son against father” (1, 2, 112-117) This shows that Gloucester had great faith and trust in his son Edgar. To better his plan he goes to Edgar and convinces him to run away. The thought that he would frame his own brother for the chance to gain power shows his corruption, and that he will do anything to have more power. Edmund writes another letter, except this implicates his father in a plot with France to kill The Duke of Cornwall. He does this so that “the younger rises [and] the old doth fall” (3, 4, 25) and he will become the Earl. Edmund is so corrupted and blinded by his quest for power that he is willing to jeopardize his father’s

She immediately senses Edmund’s jealousy and utilizes it to entrap the other three children. She offers Edmund anything he wants, he asks for Turkish delights, which she in turn delivers. She then tells him that he could be king and his siblings will be his servants, which is extremely appealing to Edmund. Edmund agrees to deliver his siblings and thus betrays them for worldly desires. “Edmund’s greed gets the better of his judgment; Proverbs 23: 1-3 cautions, when you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive” (Ditchfield 51).

Edmund never thought he would leave his family. However, the “gold fever” struck, and the adventurer in him wanted to leave so he could provide a better life for his family. On May 9th,

The siblings did many things for each other throughout the novel, but one of the most noble was when Peter, Susan, and Lucy travelled all the way across Narnia to capture back their brother who was under a spell that made him betray his siblings and being held captive by the White Witch. They all had such close bonds to each other that Peter, Susan, and Lucy were immediately able to forgive Edmund for betraying them, and they started fighting the Witch again. “Edmund shook hands with each of the others and said to each of them in turn, ‘I’m sorry,’ and everyone said, ‘That’s all right.’ And then everyone wanted very hard to say something that would make it quite clear that they were all friends again”(139) Another time they did dangerous things to be with each other was when Edmund broke the Witch's wand to save the Army and save his friends. “‘It was all Edmund’s doing, Aslan,’ Peter was saying. ‘We’d have been beaten if it hadn't been for him. The Witch was turning our soldiers to stone right and left...And when he reached her he had the sense to bring his sword smashing down on her wand instead of trying to go for her directly getting made a statue himself for his pains.’” (178-179) If Edmund hadn’t of broken the Witch’s wand, she would have gone on and quite possibly

In the end of the novel, Edmund showed the traits of a brave and altruistic hero through his actions. Edmund used to be a bratty evil child, but since the middle of the novel, he has begun to become a very heroic person. Given his history, some would say that he could never change, but his experiences with the White Witch allowed him to come to his senses about what side he should be on, and what side he shouldn’t be on. All the anger that was building up inside of him towards the Witch, he let out on the battlefield by destroying her wand and putting an end to the reign of the White Witch. Edmund is now a hero because he no longer is only thinking about himself, he has now gained the trait of altruism and is thinking about the needs of others,

When Edmund first goes to Narnia, he meets the White Witch. She tells Edmund that if he brings back his three siblings than she will make him a prince. When he returns to the Witch without his siblings, she is furious and makes him her slave and forces him to walk to the Stone Table, where she anticipates Aslan will be. Just as the Witch is sharpening her knife to kill Edmund, the other animals rush over to save him and sequentially lose

Edmund is a very controversial character in the novel. Some readers may understand that he is a boy running on desire , while others may just view him as the antagonist of the story . Regardless , Edmund shows many traits of guilt.  One of the traits that Edmund showed of guilt is when he realized all of the suffering that he has put his family through.  “ The only way to comfort himself new was to try to believe that the whole was a dream and that he might wake up at any moment. And as they went on , hour

In the movie, when Edmund first entered into the house of the white witch, she asked him two questions. “Tell me, Edmund… are your sisters deaf?” and “And your brother. Is he…unintelligent?” After she got “No” for both the questions, she was quite furious and yelled “Then how DARE you come alone! … Edmund, I ask so little of you.” From this conversation, it is clear to see the cruelty of the White Witch and she is so looking forward to catch some Narnians. This is one of the similarities that the film shares with the novel.

Trust plays an important role here as it is a reliance on the character such as Edmund has betrayed his siblings by joining the Witch. The children notices that Edmund suddenly went missing when Mr. Beaver was telling them on how the Witch turn Mr.Tumnus into stone and display it at the courtyard and how Aslan the great lion who can save them from the Wicth . The children are distraught and want to form a search party, but Mr. Beaver tells them that this is unnecessary. Since Edmund joined the White Witch, explains Mr. Beaver there was a look in his eye that branded him a

Unlike King Lear, Edmund has no power at the beginning of the play. Being Gloucester’s youngest and illegitimate son he is not accepted by society or his father. Gloucester says in front of Edgar, “His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge / I have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am brazed to it” (1.1.8-9).  Edgar, Edmund’s older brother will inherit their father's wealth, land, and title. Knowing this Edmund’s hunger for power has probably grown through the years, giving him the motivation to act the way he did. In 1.2 Edmund tells the audience that he’s going to con

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.

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

Edmund’s frustration at the treatment of illegitimate children was present from the start of the play, as he exclaimed: “Why ‘bastard’?/ [..] When my mind as generous and my shape as true / As honest madam’s issue?” (I ii 6-7). He considered himself an

     The play, “King Lear” by William Shakespeare, starts with noblemen Kent and Gloucester having a conversation and the audience finds out that Gloucester has two sons. Edgar who is his heir, and Edmund his unimportant son. This info. leads to the mini-plot. Then, Lear enters to say that he is going to end his life’s tasks and problems. He then points to the map, he tells the people there that he will split his land into three parts. They are going to be given to his three daughters. The two oldest, Goneril and Regan, tell their father that their love for him goes beyond expectations. The youngest one, Cordelia, tells him that she loves him, but only as she should love her father. He is then