The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by the Carnegie Medal winner, C.S. Lewis, is set in a magical land named Narnia. Multiple biblical elements can be found in this story which can directly relate to the death and resurrection of Jesus, as well as the sinful nature of man after the fall. This book was originally published in 1950, and its main target audience was children; however, people of all ages tend to enjoy it because of its deeper meaning. The story of Christianity is symbol throughout…

While you are thinking about it or imagining Earth like that, I want to tell you that there is a place like the one you are imagining right now. It’s Narnia. The unbelievable land where it’s always dark and cold. It’s a place where four siblings went during World War II as C.S. Lewis mentioned in his book. He wrote the book of chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrope in a way based on his characterization. By reading the book and watching the movie, we can see that the author…

Archetypes in Narnia In the book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, there are many symbols, archetypes, and themes throughout the book. According to the C.S. Lewis Foundation, it was the first book in the series of The Chronicles of Narnia. Clive Staples Lewis was a very successful fictional writer. In his novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he uses the archetype of the evil figure with the ultimate good heart, the archetype the magic weapon, and the archetype of the color red in…

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…

The Magician’s Nephew is a high fantasy and adventure novel composed by C. S. Lewis. In chronological order, it is the first book of "The Chronicles of Narnia" series. The Magician’s Nephew tells the tale of the formation of Narnia and how malevolence was brought into this enchanted land. Seen through the eyes of two kids, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, the story weaves through a few distinct universes and analyzes the differences between good and evil hearts. The magical story begins with two…

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’…

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…

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…

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…

to the people of Narnia how they should live and what the consequences are if those laws are broken. The stone table doubles in symbolism however, as it represents the Ten commandments and the veil in the Temple of Jerusalem. After Aslan’s death, the stone table cracks in half (Friskney, 65), just as when Jesus died “the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The Earth shook, the rocks split” (NIV Bible, Matthew 27:51). In both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Bible,…