“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is a story about four siblings, the Pevensies, who discover another world from inside a dresser within their professor’s home. This other world is called Narnia. Lucy, the youngest of the siblings is the first to discover this new world when she enters the dresser and realizes it has no ending point. When she ends up in this cold world she meets a faun named Tumnus. He is in this other world ruled by the White Witch ordered to capture “brothers and sisters of Adam and Eve.” When Tumnus tells Lucy what he has done to other humans, who have entered this secret world, she begs him to spare her life. This weighs heavily on his conscience, and he escorts her back to Earth before anyone finds out she was ever in Narnia and set free. When Lucy comes …show more content…
As they search for Edmund’s family, they notice that Aslan has caused the seasons to change and spring is underway. Her fear of the throne being overtaken by the four siblings angers her and she figures if they kill Edmund they won’t be able to take over Narnia. Aslan and the rest of them end up freeing Edmund from the queen, but the queen was able to disguise herself and get away. When Aslan and the Witch agree to meet they discuss Edmund’s life. The witch wants to kill him for being a traitor, but instead Aslan sacrifices himself to spare Edmund. The witch does kill Aslan, but what the witch didn’t know was that when an innocent victim is killed by a traitor, the Stone Table will crack and death will be reversed. Aslan is brought back to life and they immediately go to the witch’s home. Aslan uses his power to breathe on every stone statue to bring them back to life. Aslan ends up killing the witch and the Pevensies siblings become the king and queens of Narnia. They reign in Narnia for years before they stumbled back to the real world and are restored back to their original age as
Imagining the similarities between one of the most famous Shakespearean plays and a new animated Disney movie is difficult, until you look deeply into the characters. From the Shakespearean play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is extremely similar to Mother Gothel from the Disney movie Tangled. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife that has strong desires and personality. The movie Tangled created a similar character with Mother Gothel, she is Rapunzel's mother and believes in going after what you want. The two characters are not the exact same, they differ in their desires and in their ending demise. They are much more similar in their motives and their actions which reveal their shared character traits.
Fairy tale is a story that features folkloric chapters and enchantments, often involving a far-fetching sequence of events. Fairy tales have been around for thousands of years, whether it comes from Grimm’s Fairy Tales which is what most people consider the “classic” or “traditional” fairy tales to Disney movies, the idea of the fairy tale fills our society with lessons and examples of how we should behave and live; fairy tales teach the same things in different ways, or teach different things with the same tale. A couple of these tales are “Beauty and the Beast”, by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont and “The Pig King”, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola. They are both tales about falling in love with someone despite their appearance. The similarities and differences between “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Pig King” is captivating while still depicting a similar tale. They are similar in the way they find love and their love story but they also share a similar behavior pattern in the way the girls behave towards the prince. However, the two tales do display a difference in the attitudes of the princes and their actions towards their love
J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, has sold over 100 million copies and is translated into about 50 different languages, in about 17 years. Another popular book that was written by C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, has also sold over 100 million copies and has been translated into around 47 languages, since it was published in the 1950’s. These two amazing authors have written many other popular books, but the connection between The Hobbit and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is rare. The two novels were loved by so many people that they were made into movies and are part of a sequel. The discoveries that can be made about the two authors, novels, and the connections between the books are extraordinary.
Queen Jadis is a seven-foot tall woman of extreme power and domination. The two friends quickly realize how all she wants is to cast a spell to kill all living things in order to rule over her sister, and because of this, they try to travel back to their world as quickly as possible. In the process, Queen Jadis holds onto Polly’s hair and ends up back on earth with them. After being home for not a long amount of time, Uncle Andrew becomes scared of Jadis and turns into her servant. The kids soon realize they have to get her back to Churn before she ruins anything in their world, so they head back to the attic with the Queen, Uncle Andrew, a cab horse, a cab driver and the two children. As they return to the Wood between the Worlds, they jump into what they believe is the pool for Churn but turns out being another world, Narnia. They are welcomed by a singing lion, Aslan. Aslan welcomes the newcomers but becomes upset with them for bringing Queen Jadis into his world. When Jadis realizes how upset Aslan is, she runs away. For he calls her a “force of evil”, and in order for Aslan to forgive them, they have to bring him back a magical apple so he can create a shield to where Queen Jadis can never come to Narnia again. As the
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth (The Holy Bible, Matthew 5:5). This quote is the third Beatitude in “The Bible” which means that any person who exhibits self-control and modesty will be rewarded with peace, prosperity and eternal life. There are many stories in the bible, as well as novels, plays, and motion pictures that help display the consequences of not leading a humble life. Macbeth (from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”) and Scar (from Rob Minkoff and Roger Aller’s “The Lion King”) are two characters that fail to portray the virtues of the third Beatitude. In both adaptations, there are many parallels between both characters as they possess selfish qualities and murder for their own benefits. Although Scar and Macbeth both commit regicide out of their own desire for power and create chaos among the land, Macbeth presents moral qualities while Scar is corrupt and dishonest throughout the “Lion King”. The main characters of both adaptations bring attention to the
the book and novel and was both given to her differently. The special glasses on the
There is a picture of a ship on the wall and as Eustace calls Narnia, fake water begins coming into the room out of the picture. The next thing they know is they are in the ocean and the ship is on their side. The ship is a group of Narnians sailing east looking for the seven lost lords of Narnia. Caspain, the king of Narnia, leads the search group along with Ripecheep, the leader of the talking mice. In Narnia, animals talk and walk around like humans: Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace.
The Wizard of Oz is a classic a universally loved film. It’s full of adventure, symbolism, and has a feel good story. It’s interesting though to see some parallels the Wizard of Oz had with other well-known classic fairytales. One example, is the famous story of Alice in Wonderland. A classic in its own right, and a staple in nearly everyone’s film repertoire. The similarities between these two stories are numerous. Starting with the main heroines themselves. Both Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have a young girl as their main character. Even the character’s appearances and lines are similar. Both sporting a blue dress, and describing their fantasies as curious. When Dorothy arrives in Oz she says, “What a curious place”.
Over centuries of children have been enjoying the classic fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. The fanciful plots and the vivid details allow children to be entranced by characters and adventures that can only be found in these stories. One of the most beloved fairy tales, which both the Perrault and the Grimms have their own separate versions of, is Cinderella. Cinderella is able to show how both versions are able to feed off the same plots while personifying the century and social economic situation in which they have lived.
Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, based off of the novel written by C.S. Lewis, Edmund
In conclusion, C.S Lewis symbolizes good and evil into his characters. The good one would be Aslan and the bad one would be the White Witch. They embody their role with characterization. This can be shown with the description of the two characters. Aslan is pure of heart and powerful and the Witch is cruel and terrifying. Also, their actions are key facts to demonstrate their chosen side. Aslan is always doing beneficial action for others, instead of the Witch that wants more and more power, willing to destroy life to achieve her goals. Through this book, the two opposite characters are really well explained and analysed.
Consolation is the one function that Tolkien stresses must be present for any written work or storyline to be considered a faerie story. Consolation is what the reader commonly knows as the happy ending. Tolkien also called this the eucatastrophe or good catastrophe, of a story. In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the White Witch and her followers put Aslan, a lion that represents all that is good in Narnia, to a torturous death. All the children and all of Aslan’s followers are mourning over his loss and begin to feel hopeless. The next day, Susan, the oldest of the four children, wakes up to find that Aslan is no longer on the stone table where he was put to death the night before and that moreover the stone table is now cracked. As she begins to worry, Aslan rises up with the sun shining behind him and the reader realizes, just as Susan does, that Aslan conquered death induced by evil. The conquest of death is known as the great eucatastrophe, the greatest of all other eucatastrophes. Aslan then goes on to unfreeze the prisoners of the White Witch and leads them to the battle against her and her followers. Peter, the oldest of the brothers, makes the final move to end her life and stabs the White Witch with his sword. Tolkien states that a eucatastrophe can only be made achievable if a dyscatastrophe, a catastrophe of sorrow or failure, is possible in the story. In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the dyscatastrophe was the possibility of Aslan not coming back from the dead, as many readers suspect that he would not, and the White Witch winning the battle of good versus
Some things were different between Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast the Graphic Novel and Beauty and the Beast, the movie like, in the movie the main character was named Belle, in both the books the main character was named Beauty. In the movie there were talking household items like a clock and a candelabra, in both of the books there were no talking inanimate objects. In both the books Beauty was honored in the town for her beauty and youth, in the movie Belle was called a “funny girl” and people always thought of her as strange because she reads. In the books Beauty has two sisters but in the movie Belle has none. In the movie Belle’s father is kept in the beast’s castle until Belle comes to rescue him, but in the books Beauty’s
The characters in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe are symbolic of other characters featured in the Bible. Peter, the eldest child, became the “rock” everyone clung to. He waged the war against the white witch and he is a representation of the Apostle Peter. Susan, the second eldest child, is seen as the nonbeliever who must always have facts. She is a represe...
The Chronicles of Narnia are veritably the most popular writings of C.S. Lewis. They are known as children’s fantasy literature, and have found favor in older students and adults alike, even many Christian theologians enjoy these stories from Lewis; for there are many spiritual truths that one can gleam from them, if familiar with the Bible. However, having said this, it is noteworthy to say that Lewis did not scribe these Chronicles for allegorical didactics of the Christian faith, but wrote them in such a well-knit fashion that young readers might understand Christian doctrine through captivating fantasy and thus gain an appreciation for it. With this in mind, and in the interest of this assignment, the purpose of this paper is an attempt to analyze one of the many doctrines of the Christian faith from The Lion, The Witch, And, The Wardrobe (LWW), namely, temptation and how Lewis illustrates it through an individual character, Edmund.