Essay on The World of Narnia: Allegory or Fairy Tale

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 his life. At the young age of ten, his mother died of cancer and he later attended a boarding school in England

Chronicles of Narnia. The book series is regarded as a classic of children’s literature and is Lewis’s best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages. The books were written around 1950 and have been adapted through several mediums, including film. In particular, the film creation of the first of the seven books, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, made in 2005, presents a problematic dynamic of gender, genre, and religion. The Chronicles of Narnia book series is

nature of Tolkien’s writings as, in a way, of the fairy-tale genre. Of the fairy tale genre, it’s most important that despite through the sorrows of story a happy ending is matched. The “happy endings” of Tolkien’s works would have been bathed in an earnest hope and attempt to capture what the Christian believes to await them in heaven. “Giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief. It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher

C.S. Lewis’ Christian Fairy Tale A society’s myths and legends are much more than stories. They represent the values, fears, hopes, and desires at the core of that culture. Due to the significance and complexity of moral and societal expectations, these lessons of life are taught to children in the form of symbolic stories, for example, fairy tales. In his book “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” C.S. Lewis uses symbols and metaphor to encompass the incredibly complex concepts of Christian ideology

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

exist in a fantasy work for several purposes; magic is used as a mode of enticement to peak the reader's interest and signifier of the genre, it is used to advance the plot, and, magic is also used as a device in which the author can explore real-world concepts and contemporary concerns in a way that is both immediate, yet removed from reality. The incorporation of traditional mythology is also frequent in fantasy works as they are a source of inspiration that also draws the reader’s attention without

Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia       C. S. Lewis, a well-known author and apologist, is best known by people of all ages for his seven volume series entitled The Chronicles of Narnia. As Lewis wrote about the land of Narnia, an imaginary world visited by children of this world, he had two obvious purposes: to entertain the readers and to suggest analogies of the Christian faith. Although some feel that his stories are violent, Lewis is successful at

readers have argued over whether the book is a fantasy, a fairy tale, a fable, a romance, an epic, or a novel. Classifying the book is one way of explaining its strengths and weaknesses and understanding the immense appeal it has held for many decades. The Hobbit seems to be about much more than its surface narrative, but Tolkien was adamant that it was not an allegory and said he much preferred history, whether real or invented, to allegory. The book is not a novel in the tradition of the great realistic

who are lost, but also good for the artist to be more recognized for their ability and not just their beliefs. What the Christian artists who want to stay in the Christian hip- hop world are trying to do is to be separated from the world. Which is good in some ways because, we are called to be different from the world, but we, as Christians, still need to be relevant to be able to engage the culture to share the word of Christ. Rookmaaker touches on this by stating, “To be a Christian is to be different-

“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better” (Rowling 's Harvard Speech Doesn 't Entrance Al.) People in the 20th century raged about this book series. Some people grew a great love interest towards this book and adored the characters. Others grew hatred toward the book and were certain it was prompting wizardry. J.K. Rowling’s series started a dynamic controversy that elevated as she produced more and more