The Witch And The Wardrobe By C. S. Lewis Essay

¨No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.¨ - Lyman Beecher. C. S. Lewis was a very controversial writer during the 1900s. He got famous because most of his books had themes relating to Christianity. Growing up, Lewis was always good at telling stories and making up tales about make-believe creatures; which led him to write many good books, including The Chronicles of Narnia, one of his most controversial book series.

Growing up, Lewis was always good at telling stories and making up tales about make-believe creatures. When he was 10 years old, his mother died of cancer which impacted his life a lot. He stayed by himself most of the time and rejected Christianity because he thought there was

This book is about how four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, were sent off to England because of air raids that were happening in London. The house that they were staying at was owned by an old professor who kept to himself. While staying in the house, the siblings would explore everywhere and eventually she came upon a room with an old wardrobe in it. She went inside the wardrobe and it led to a different world called Narnia, where animals talked and there were make believe creatures like fauns and giants. However, Edmund also went into the wardrobe. The first person he met when he went into the wardrobe was the White Witch. The White Witch was evil and ended up compelling Edmund to be on her side. The story then goes on and Peter, Susan, and Lucy have to save Edmund from the Witch. This is when Aslan, who is the apparent savior of Narnia, comes in and sacrifices himself in order to save Edmund. Alsan rises from the dead later in the story and protects Narnia from the White Witch. ¨The seven Chronicles of Narnia, beginning with The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe, were on a level of high fantasy, depicting a struggle between good and evil through powerful but not obvious religious symbols¨ (¨Lewis, C. S.¨ 3). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is part of an eight book series called the Chronicles of

Lewis gained fame for having Christian related themes in his books. In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, there are many themes similar to Christianity. In the book, there is a ¨savior¨ who is a lion that shares many of the same characteristics with Jesus. ¨Aslan is an archetype of the dying god who bears characteristics similar to Jesus Christ and highlights them specific to the Christian faith.¨ (Zoe 32). In the third book of the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, there is also controversy. Prince Caspian resembles Marxist Criticism which was a time when Karl Marx thought that eventually, the lower classes would revolt against the upper class. Marx thought that the upper class used repressive ideologies to keep the lower class from rising against them. Marxist criticism in this book is resembled by the old Narnians revolting against the upper class. While all the books in the Chronicles of Narnia were popular, the only book to get an award was The Last Battle, which won the 1956 Carnegie medal. All the Chronicles of Narnia books were very popular with young children because they had easy storytelling, talking animals, and magic. ¨The Narnia books have been both praised and criticized for intermingling mythologies, including not only classical fauns and talking animals but also father Christmas and a Christ like lion named