#1245: Inertia and Lewis
Okay, so I really should be working right now, but I'm not feeling the kick in the bum of my conscience yet so... I'm not going to.
I've been thinking about C.S. Lewis (as per usual) and how, when TLTW&TH was recently made into a movie, the director said something along the lines of "I don't see it as a Christian allegory ... it's just a good adventure story" or something lke that.
Too bad for him that the author disagrees, or would have were he still alive. You all know I read a lot of Lewis's stuff. And he quite frequently speaks of TLTW&TH when referring to the writing process, as originally it was simply a number of images that occured to him. At this point, he says, there was nothing Christian about them... but then the story came together, and the implication is that this is when the Christian allegory came in.
When Lewis is so harsh on those who write for the sake of writing and not to glorify God, so intent that a man is Christian first and author second, so vehement that literature must be reflective thereof - it is ridiculous to suggest that he was simply writing a good adventure story. Especially when taken in context of the rest of the Narnia series and circumstances (the children allegorical of different types of faith, Aslan as creator, as saviour, and finally the Narnia heaven) and even Lewis's other fiction (The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, his space trilogy etc) - how can one think the Christian allegory was not deliberate?
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