Chronicles Of Narnia Analysis

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In Chronicles of Narnia, children are the main protagonists, the key executors of adventures in all seven books. According to J.R.R. Tolkien, he sees fairy-story as the embodiment of Nature in human or humanoid forms as the attribution of mysterious importance to the natural world. The dictionary meaning for the word ‘fairy’ - “a small imaginary being of human form that has magical powers” (Compact Oxford Reference Dictionary), “An imaginary being of small and graceful human form” (The New International Webster’s Student Dictionary Of The English Language), according to Tolkien, is a hyperbolic error, for fairies are not ‘small’ that is ‘miniature stature’ or ‘magical’ or it is ‘supernatural’ for it is man who is of ‘miniature stature’ and of supernatural-being than fairies, Jacobs describes the land of fairies. Faery itself: a place, a world, that sometimes overlaps with Britain but is …show more content…

Lewis throughout Chronicles of Narnia compares ‘order’ with ‘chaos’ in order to bring out or establish ‘order’ as an end result whereby the purification occurs not due to individual initiative and enterprise, but due to the submission to the wisdom. Literatures of self-transcendence uses various metaphors, images, symbols and signs, where meaning-making becomes its major activity. The meaning should be detected for the creation, or building- up of a culture of justice and peace. Chronicles of Narnia is reviewed under the following classifications as Children’s Literature, Fantasy Literature, Anti-Feminist Literature, Religious Allegory and