“No matter how far wrong you've gone you can always turn around” (Callahan). Anyone who has made mistakes can redeem themselves if they accept their mistakes. To do this they must see their wrongs, learn from them, and turn around towards the right direction. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, written by C.S Lewis, we are shown the adventure of 4 siblings, Lucy, Peter, Susan, and Edmund, as they travel through a magic wardrobe that transports them to the magical land of Narnia. There they learn about the curse of eternal winter that has been cast upon Narnia by the evil White Witch. Throughout their journey, they meet many friends and joined forces with the great lion, Aslan, but with new friends came new enemies and challenges. The
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As a result, Edmund is constantly at odds with his siblings, mostly Peter, even more so whenever they prove him wrong or does something that he doesn’t agree with. Under those circumstances his relationship with his siblings continues to weaken and weaken. Due to his lack of maturity, Edmund struggles to learn to accept his wrongs and not let his pride and spite get in the way of his decisions. To start off, we are given passages that help us understand what Edmund’s personality is like at the beginning of the book, the following passage shows most of Edmund’s “quality” traits, “And now we come to one of the nastiest things in this story. Up to that moment, Edmund had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy for being right, but he hadn't made up his mind what to do. When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decided all at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let Lucy down” (Lewis 47 - 48). As seen from the passage, we are given a very detailed view of Edmund as a character, showing how his pride and spite influence his decision as seen in the passage. This insight is important because it gives us a sort of measure of Edmund’s beginning traits and gives a good comparison of how his traits in the future compares to his traits in the beginning. In addition to pride and spite, this next passage will show us a sort of scale of Edmund’s …show more content…
Starting off, We start to see Edmund’s loyalty shift and internal conflict with himself in the coming passage, "‘Because," he said to himself, ‘all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!’ At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel” (Lewis 96 - 97). This is an important Passage because we start to see shifts in his personality. As in we see how he is less prideful with his beliefs towards the Witch, and how on the outside he seems to completely side with the Witch but on the inside, he starts to question his decisions and also starts to see the roots of his mistakes. This basically shows the first major sign of Edmund’s character development, and also spark the signs of Edmund’s theme, redemption. As we continue in the book we see more moments where Edmund starts to clearly see his mistakes one of them being the next piece of evidence, “All the things he had said to make himself believe that she was good and kind and
As a result, Edmund is constantly at odds with his siblings, mostly Peter, even more so whenever they prove him wrong or does something that he doesn’t agree with. Under those circumstances his relationship with his siblings continues to weaken and weaken. Due to his lack of maturity, Edmund struggles to learn to accept his wrongs and not let his pride and spite get in the way of his decisions. To start off, we are given passages that help us understand what Edmund’s personality is like at the beginning of the book, the following passage shows most of Edmund’s “quality” traits, “And now we come to one of the nastiest things in this story. Up to that moment, Edmund had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy for being right, but he hadn't made up his mind what to do. When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decided all at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let Lucy down” (Lewis 47 - 48). As seen from the passage, we are given a very detailed view of Edmund as a character, showing how his pride and spite influence his decision as seen in the passage. This insight is important because it gives us a sort of measure of Edmund’s beginning traits and gives a good comparison of how his traits in the future compares to his traits in the beginning. In addition to pride and spite, this next passage will show us a sort of scale of Edmund’s …show more content…
Starting off, We start to see Edmund’s loyalty shift and internal conflict with himself in the coming passage, "‘Because," he said to himself, ‘all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!’ At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel” (Lewis 96 - 97). This is an important Passage because we start to see shifts in his personality. As in we see how he is less prideful with his beliefs towards the Witch, and how on the outside he seems to completely side with the Witch but on the inside, he starts to question his decisions and also starts to see the roots of his mistakes. This basically shows the first major sign of Edmund’s character development, and also spark the signs of Edmund’s theme, redemption. As we continue in the book we see more moments where Edmund starts to clearly see his mistakes one of them being the next piece of evidence, “All the things he had said to make himself believe that she was good and kind and