But Edmund has other ideas, and leaves his siblings to warn the Witch that, by entering Narnia with his siblings, he is putting her rule at risk. Beaver, they learn of Aslan, the great lion who is to save them from the reign of the White Witch. When all the children finally end up in Narnia together, and meet Mr. In case you don’t know the drill, the jolly-happy youngsters discover a magical world in an old wardrobe they find in a room of the large manner house they go to stay in. Our tears mark our humanity and we enjoy being swept up in the manipulation. We enjoy crying as we see the mother wave goodbye to her children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, as they are driven away by a steam train to be evacuated to the country. But, as I said in my recent review of War Horse, not all sentimentality is bad, and sometimes we need a bit of emotional manipulation. All very cinematic, all very family friendly, all very sentimental, all very Disney. They realise they have forgotten their father’s photo (he is away fighting), so there is a mad dash back to grab it from the house. An air raid is occurring in World War II Britain, and the Pevensie family are running to get into their bomb shelter. The film starts with a scene that wasn’t in the original story. And the first big-screen Narnia adaptation, 2005’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is a near-masterpiece – a colourful, wondrous and brilliantly enjoyable experience, and a very faithful retelling of one of my favourite childhood books.
But I am fully able to enjoy the books and watch the films without getting too bothered. This is not to say that I do not know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, loyalty and betrayal and many of the other moral lessons that form the basis of Lewis’s first Narnia novel (although second novel in reading order). I do not believe in a God of any kind, nor do I worry about securing my place in heaven after I am dead.
The biblical allegories, the parallels that swap Jesus for a lion, pieces of silver for Turkish delight, and the general themes of hierarchy, monarchy, betrayal and suffering are, to some non-religious minds, problematic aspects when seen in the context of children’s literature.
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Lewis’s popular fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia.
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