The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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    noticeable in C.S. Lewis’ books and especially in the Chronicles of Narnia. From Aslen breathing on the statues bringing life back into them to Aslen being resurrected back to life, these great writings show how great fantasy writing can be and the great worlds that Lewis created from his own imagination. These alternate worlds and realms aren’t just from pure imagination; they have a deeper religious meaning. In The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Aslen being crucified and rising from the dead…

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    Aslan and the White Witch reference “the Deep Magic”, which is the law carved into the ancient stone table that all Narnians must abide by. The “Deep Magic” would be the equivalent of the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament, the written law given to Moses. These commandments outline how the Jews should live; it tells them what they should not do if they want to live a life that honors God. In the same way, the law carved onto the stone table dictates to the people of Narnia how they…

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    silencing this shy, persistent, inner voice; almost all our modern philosophies have been devised to convince us that the good of man is to be found on this earth. (7) One of the reasons that The Chronicles of Narnia have such moving ideals is because their positively inspiring. Desires in The Chronicles of Narnia are a positive thing, but when an individual asks people to explain what they thought is the highest Christian values, most people responded in a negative altruistic way: But if you…

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    I chose to advertise ‘the chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ as a book store named ‘Page Turner’. I chose this because I have a passion for reading books and was interested in making an advertisement as a bookstore trying to sell a featured book. My target audience is people regularly read books and travel to book stores. The advertisement would be published on the front counter at the bookstore so when people come to buy one of the books they will see ‘fiction of the…

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    The Chronicles of Narnia book series, for years, has been under the watchful eye of Christians and Non-Christians alike in search of Biblical parallels. There are the more obvious parallels: Aslan’s death on the Stone Table in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe/Jesus’ death on the cross, the Rapture/the end of Old Narnia in The Last Battle, and the two creation stories found in Genesis/The Magician’s Nephew. However, there are far more subtle Biblical parallels that Lewis himself might not…

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    From a lamp post that was there from the beginning and the girl that finds it to a talking lion that all you want to do is love and a witch that had the power to free the world over C.S. Lewis has brought us one of the world's greatest book series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Although C.S. Lewis is recognized throughout the world as a great Christian thinker, philosopher, apologist and writer, his theology often fails to meet the standards of most Evangelicals and is often at odds with the broader…

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    Clyde Staples Lewis, author of the well-loved Chronicles of Narnia series, was born to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis in 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lewis was the younger of two sons; he had a brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, who had been born in 1895. Lewis went by the nickname of “Jack”, a name which he apparently gave himself and which stuck (Biography.com). When he was 10, his mother died of cancer, and he and Warren were sent to Wynyard School in England. After…

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    Clive Lewis was an extremely talented writer, who many people may know for his best selling series, The Chronicles of Narnia. In this essay, I will be telling you all about the life of Clive Lewis, and the hardships he faced in his earlier years. Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast Ireland. His two parents, Albert and Flora, loved to read. Lewis grew up surrounded by books, which possibly sparked his interest in literature in college. As a young boy, Louis insisted…

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    The second production company, Pure Flix, though they were founded around the same time as Sherwood Pictures, Pure Flix has been a part of a significantly greater Christian productions. Some of their most notable work include Jerusalem Countdown (2011), The Book of Daniel (2013), The Case for Christ (2017), and the God’s Not Dead series (2014-). One of the prominent figures in the company is Harold Cronk, Cronk has directed a number of films for the company. The studio is also responsible for…

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    According to C.S. Lewis, when a person writes something, what they are passionate about is subconsciously written into their work. Lewis claims that when he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series, he did not originally intend to write it about the gospel or about Jesus---he claims that the story just flowed out of him. After reading the series, one could easily come to the conclusion that Lewis must have been very passionate about the relationship between God and man. Although it was not Lewis’…

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