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"C. S. Lewis always resisted making any simple equation that Aslan is Jesus Christ. In his first novel, The Pilgrim's Regress, he came closest to allegory but he spent the remainder of his prolific career retreating from anything so explicit. He discussed the specific case of Narnia on several occasions in his letters. For example, on May 29, 1954, he wrote to some fifth-graders:
"You are mistaken when you think that everything in the books 'represents' something in this world. Things do that in The Pilgrim's Progress but I'm not writing in that way. I did not say to myself 'Let us represent Jesus as He really is in our world by a Lion in Narnia': I said 'Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the Son of God, as He became a Man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would have happened.' If you think about it, you will see that it is quite a different thing. (Hooper 425)
"Although allegory is disavowed, Aslan is clearly a character redolent of divinity and with godlike connotations. This is explicitly reinforced by Lewis when, less than a month after writing to the fifth-graders, on June 19, he replied, when the idea of a cartoon version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was suggested to him: "I am sure you understand that Aslan is a divine figure, and anything remotely approaching the comic (above all anything in the Disney line) would be to me simple blasphemy" (438). It is obvious that C. S. Lewis took the character of Aslan very seriously and intended that he should be suggestive of the Christian Son of God."
~ "The whole art and joy of words": Aslan's speech in the Chronicles of Narnia
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I love this song. She sounds so much like Ed, but yet so girly at the same time. It's hilarious, really.
I'm probably breaking a whole bunch of copyright laws by doing this, but eh. Buy the book if you like it.
( Excerpt from Prince Caspian, by C. S. Lewis. )
If you're going to read the books, make sure you read them in the right order. They're numbered differently, based on which edition you buy or which publisher or whatever. The Magician's Nephew chronologically comes first, but The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was meant to be read first, and that tends to confuse people. Here's the right order:
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- The Horse and His Boy
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Magician's Nephew
- The Last Battle
My favorites are The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Last Battle, because I love the Pevensies and King Tirian: the Pevensies because I like Lucy and I wish I had an older brother like Peter and Edmund really impresses me in the later books; and King Tirian because he's just cool. Also because I like Aslan's parts best in those books.
And now I have more homework and studying to do. >_>
~DigiFaith
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