C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: Compared to The Bible C.S. Lewis wrote The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe because he wanted to write a children’s book “as a gift for his godchild” (Palmer). It began for him with a series of pictures that came into his mind. “Lewis stated, ‘Everything began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion” (Kennedy). A fairy tale was forming in his mind and “‘At first there wasn't anything Christian about
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
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe have symbolic similarities to events described in the Bible. In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe we discover a world of fantasy filled with the never-ending battle between good and evil. The children in the story, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy lived in London during the war and were sent to live with a professor because of the air-raids. The children quickly find a wardrobe, which is actually a passageway
Introduction 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
is proof that many authors expressed the same beliefs and perhaps influenced future writers to come. C.S. Lewis’ past experiences and authors such as George MacDonald, Beatrix Potter, Greek Mythology, and the Bible have significantly influenced C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe through the use of anthropomorphisms, mythical creatures, and allegories making it one of the greatest children stories of all time. On November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Clives Staples Lewis began
Magicians Nephew and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe both hold Christian allegory, revealing a variety of religious prophecies such as Christ creating earth, Jesus dies for humanity’s sins, and temptation in the world. In both novels, Aslan represents the figure of Christ. The Magicians Nephew has Christian parallels, reflecting particular aspects of The Book of Genesis, such as the creation of earth and Aslan creating Narnia. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aslan is a Christ-like
throughout The Chronicles of Narnia. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, there is a character named Aslan. Aslan is a lion whose purpose in the novel is
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is about four children discovering an alternate universe and attempting to defeat evil (the White Witch) with the help of the Christ-like figure, Aslan. The time of the book is set during World War II in England. The four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy go to live in a professor’s house in order to escape war-time. The children soon discover Narnia, an alternate universe with talking creatures and a time-zone much
type of mythology is clearly integrated in chapter twelve of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Peter rescues his sisters who are the damsels in distress from the evil wolf correspondingly as saving the defenceless women is a common theme in arthurian tales. Courage when the knight is outmatched is also a theme of british mythology: Peter, the knight in this case, “did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt
A Closer Look at the Parallels between the Christian Bible and the book The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe When famed author C.S. Lewis is asked if his novel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is intended to be an allegory to the story of Jesus’ resurrection he denies that he ever considered it one however he cannot deny the many parallels to the story in Christian faith. Regardless of the origin of the tale in Doctor Lewis’ creative process