The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

It's taken American state decades virtually to finally develop associateother C.S. Lewis book and browse it. In highschool I read Lewis book, That Hideous Strength and utterly incomprehensible Lewis message. One decade later I read Lewis Mere Christianity and totally understood what Lewis was saying. With The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a part of C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia series, the gospel message is clearly created evident in an allegorical/mystical style. Lewis used the Narnia series to elucidate Christs love for humans to children, who are the series principal readers.

This 1st novel during a} series of seven books is presently a serious film currently finishing a productive run on theatre screens across the U.S. I even have nevertheless to ascertain the movie, a filmmaker production, however I perceive that it holds very faithful Lewis storyline. I expect to see the movie before it leaves theatres later this month; it'll become out there on optical disk this April.

Back to the story! The theme of The Lion centers around four children, the Pevensie siblings, who get trapped in a land of magic. coming into Narnia through a wardrobe [a tall cupboard that holds clothes] set during a home wherever they're boarding the kids enter a land where it's invariably winter, however ne'er Christmas. below the spell of the White Witch, Narnia is forever within the grip of evil. The land is occupied by talking animals [beavers, for one], spirits, goblins, sprites, but no humans. that's till Australopithecus afarensis Pevensie shows up followed by her brother Edmund and, later, Susan and Peter.

Quite clearly the White Witch a/k/a the Queen of Narnia is most interested in humans so she resorts to any or all styles of magic and trickery to lure them in. Edmund, the foremost plastic of the siblings, is quickly captivated by the White Witch and so sets intent on betray the others.

while not freely giving the storyline, the theme of Narnia clearly reflects the captivity of this gift world below Satan, however its past and future saving through Christ Christ. within the kind of a lion, Aslan, Lewis brings a savior to Narnia who eventually releases the land from its winter grip and vanquishes the White Witch.

For those unfamiliar the gospel message, The Lion, the Witch and therefore the Wardrobe is also arduous to follow. However, Lewis wrote the book in 1950 straight off once the horrors of Word War II and with the Nazi air battle for London recent within the minds of British citizenry. Lewis could are responding to a robust non secular hunger of his time when he wrote the series as Narnia with success points seekers to Aslan, very much like the Bible points browseers to Christ Christ.

I'm undecided if i will be able to read the remaining six books during this series, but i'm undoubtedly curious about exploring many different writings of Lewis.

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams were contemporaries who were an area of a bunch of writers and intellectuals called The Inklings who met throughout the Thirties and Forties at a pothouse in Oxford. Tolkien, like Lewis, used Christian allegory in several of his writings including, The Lord of the Rings, another series of books that was recently free as a serious motion picture.

Clearly, the revived interest in C.S. Lewis works could be a positive step particularly for a generation of youngsters not aware of the gospel message. Disney, for his or her part, is curious about developing the remaining six books of the series into individual movies. So, expect Narniamania as some have known as it to continue intense for several years to come.