Turkish Delight As A Symbol Of Sin In Lucy's '

Just as Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge and felt unsatisfied, Edmund continued to eat but always wanted more. He became obsessed with his desire for Turkish Delight, just as sin can start to control. She found him an easy prey. “ Her flattery appeals to his pride and her magical Turkish Delight to his gluttony.” (Downing 93). But it wasn't the Turkish Delight, a symbol of sin and temptation that made edmund so bad it's the sudden loyalty to the White Witch and the betrayal to his siblings.While the Turkish Delight could represent gluttony, it can also represent just sinning in general. She promised to make him king. This fuels Edmund because he has never been able to stand up his old brother Peter and if he is king Peter will forced to listen to everything he says. Lewis foreshadows Edmunds characters future intentions in the beginning of the novel. When we first meet him whilst he’s at boarding school, right away you can see he's a bully.
“ At first, Edmund is only selfished and ill-tempered. But when he deliberately lies, refusing to confirm Lucy’s story and admit that there really is a magic world inside the wardrobe, he does great harm to his own soul. Here is falsehood, pride, and spite all bound up together, a sign that Edmunds downward drift has turned into a descent. Lewis wrote that rebellion of the will” usually leads to “ fogging of the intelligence,” and Edmunds lie will lead to whole series of wrong-headed and …show more content…
It symbolizes a 'holy' place. The prophecy claimed that the White Witch would be destroyed when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve sat on four thrones at Cair Paravel. “‘To be sure, to be sure,’ said the faun. ‘How stupid of me! But i’ve never seen a Son of Adam or a Daughters of Eve before.I am delighted…’” (Lewis 11) Lucy and Susan being the Daughters of Eve and Edmund and Peter being the Sons of Adam. It is close to the Emperor-of-the-Sea, a symbol for