Analysis Of Cruelty In The Narnia Series By C. S. Lewis

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Who am I talking about? The white witch. C.S Lewis shows what real cruelty is in his books, The Narnia Series. These few paragraphs will tell of her cruelty, deceitfulness, and how she has many spies, not letting anyone speak privately. In simpler words, we will talk about her evilness and gault.

The witch, Jadis, is antagonist and is clearly deleterious. She told the animals to find humans and bring them to her. Since Mr. Tumnus said she is a witch, how do we know what she does to them? There might be some horrid things in that part of the case; and if they do not bring them to her or become friends with them, she incarcerated them by cutting off their tails and beards, or even worse, turn them to stone, never to be seen or heard again,

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