C.S. Lewis was one of the greatest know fictional writers; he created a wonderful series of books called The Chronicles of Narnia. His real name was Clive Staples Lewis but also his friends called him “Jack”. He was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. C.S. Lewis was married to Joy Davidman, his father was Albert James Lewis and his mother was Florence Augusta Lewis. He is best known for his fictional work and for his non-fictional Christian apologetics. When Lewis was a little boy him and his brother created the world of Boxen, also he had a fascination with anthropomorphic animals falling in love with Beatrix Potter’s and often writing and illustrating his own animal stories. When C.S. Lewis was a teenager most of his writings moved away from the tales of Boxen, and he began using different art forms to try to capture his new-found interest in Norse mythology and the natural world. In 1916 he was awarded a scholarship at University of Oxford.
One of his most famous series is the Chronicles of Narnia. It is a story about four kids that find a magical land of talking animals and a kingdom in need of their help. When Narnia is taken over by the White Witch. This place came about when C.S. Lewis was very young him and his brother made up a magical world called Boxen. As C.S. Lewis got older he has perfected this world and made this world into Narnia. This fantasy world of Narnia is full of wonder full creatures that can communicate to humans and each other by talking, some of the animals even have special abilities. The land of Narnia is ruled by multiple people which are Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and later ruled by Caspian X and his descendants.
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...tabs Edmund and wounds him pretty badly. Aslan finally shows up and eventually kills Jadis, then the Pevensie Family are crowned kings and queens of Narnia.
I believe that in this story he is trying to make many points but the main point that I see in this story is no matter if family turns there back on you or betrays you, there is always room for forgiveness. “Jesus Christ did not say, go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right”, this is one of his most famous quotes that I think kind of fits into this story. C. S. Lewis was awarded the Carnegie award witch is the highest honor for children’s literature in the UK, for the last of the books in the “Chronicles of Narnia”. He was also offered a CBE (commander of the British Empire) by Winston Churchill in 1951, but he refused the award, and no one really understands why he refused the award.
Throughout time, famous authors have written even more famous books based on their own experiences. Nearly any book can be traced to an event in the author’s life. Whether they do it intentionally or not, these book are basically unofficial autobiographies. While they should not be taken as fact, a reader can come to understand the life of the author, and better understand their work. One famous author, C.S. Lewis, created a beautiful allegory in “The Chronicles of Narnia.” C.S. Lewis was a Christian and Aslan, the main character in the books, was a savior to the world. He modeled Aslan after Jesus Christ. Other famous authors using this technique include J.R.R. Tolkien and John Knowles with his book A Separate Peace.
Referring C.S. Lewis to culture now and although he has passed quite some time ago, his stories live on for believers and non-believers. Most known for his Chronicles of Narnia series, he has opened up eyes of many people. His theology and heart collide to continue showing God’s name and face wherever you go. Whether you believe or not, you know who C.S. Lewis is. An incredible life lived, and an incredible legacy that lives on. His belief in God and the Trinity, and his powerful message to the world through the power of his words will continue to test believers and non-believers to live a life filled with incredible purpose.
“Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the son of God, as he became a man in our world, became a lion in theirs, and then imagine what would happen” (letters to children qtd. Gazora 9). Throughout Clive Lewis life, he changed his religion so many times from not believing in God to believing again. Lewis was always known for his fantasy, and his most known book The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis wrote The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, to show his Christian faith. In Lewis’s novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he uses the archetype of the hero, and the villain, as well as the symbol of the stone table.
The major theme of C. S. Lewis Christian and Storyteller is that if you need a creative idea, you should try something new so that you get inspired to do something. C. S. Lewis got his inspiration from his religion, but whatever you try, you should find a deeper meaning within
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first Narnia book published, Lewis leaves children spellbound at the thought of a frosty magical world occupied by talking animals and mythical b...
The book, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is compelling in many ways. Published in 1950, it shows ideas that seem out of our world. This book is popular among both kids and adults.
...aren’t all the ways to define a fairy-story but these two point out that one thing for sure the Chronicles of Narnia are not fair-stories. However these stories are parallels to the Christian faith that appear allegorical at times. Though Lewis may not have intended it to appear so allegorical there are places where it seems that way. In the end though, it is a story that was created by an author who held strong Christian beliefs and allowed his faith to be an influencing factor in his writing. Lewis never said it was suppose to be an allegory and line up perfectly. He just wanted to suppose for a little while about another world named Narnia.
Lewis had joined a group called ‘The Inklings’ in the 1920’s and it was through conversations with his group members that he found himself re-embracing Christianity. This was after he had been disillusioned the faith when he was younger. Among the members of the group were Lewis’s brother, Warren, and friend, J.R.R. Tolkien. In the mid-1920’s Lewis started to write on Christian-based subjects, but it wasn’t until the late 1950’s that his career really took off. It was at this time that he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, and it contained beliefs of Christians that were applied very subtly. “There is a character in one of my children’s stories named Aslan, who says, ‘I never tell anyone any story except his own.’ I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally. Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase. As Charles Williams once said, ‘The altar must often be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.’” ~C.S. Lewis. When he first started to write them, there was not much of a support system that he could use, as his producer and friends all discouraged him from writing children’s books. Thankfully, he did not listen to them and continued to write books on classic children’s literature. Although his work was not very well accepted by the critics and reviewers in the
In the method of writing the Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis bit by bit expanded the reach and range of his literary goals. What was from the beginning as a set of stories for kids developed into a fancy illustration of a whole universe. When the seven books advance,Lewis unfolds the complete Divine set up for this universe from its creation to its catastrophe. However, the originality of Lewis' literary accomplishment stems from the actual fact that Lewis manages to try and do a few things right away. That is, he remains devoted to his original intention to put in writing in stories for kids, whereas adding in calm ethical and non secular complication. they're woven into the very cloth of Lewis's inventive universe. So, the Chronicles of Narnia are a series of books that may delight the senses as they challenge and stir the mind.
Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis, a well-known author and apologist, is best known by people of all ages for his seven volume series entitled The Chronicles of Narnia. As Lewis wrote about the land of Narnia, an imaginary world visited by children of this world, he had two obvious purposes: to entertain the readers and to suggest analogies of the Christian faith. Although some feel that his stories are violent, Lewis is successful at using fiction to open peoples' hearts to accepting Christ as their Savior because he first entertains the audience with a wonderful story. Lewis talked about how he came to write the books of Narnia, saying that they "all began with a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood" (Lewis 79). The Chronicles tell of the different adventures of English children as they visit the kingdom of Narnia and fall in love with the lion Aslan.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first of several novels in the C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. These books tell stories of another universe that is called Narnia. Here there are many unearthly things from talking animals and evil witches. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the story of four young siblings who discover this new world by entering a wardrobe. Little did they know, they were destined to become the new royalty of Narnia but only after going through many battles. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis analyzes the character Lucy, the theme of good versus evil, and the parallels of Narnia to other literature and Lewis’s life.
C.S. Lewis was the 20th century’s most popular proponent of faith based on reason. As a child, he created an imaginary world where personified animals came to life, and later, he wrote the book, Chronicles of Narnia. How did he transform from a boy fascinated with anthropomorphic animals into a man of immense faith? His transformation to the Christian religion happened as his fame began to flourish. People wrote him, asking him about his claims about the truth of Christianity (Belmonte, Kevin). As I attended the drama of Freud’s Last Session, I was engrossed into the plot of the play and was constantly thinking about how it pertained to the objectives of the World Literature class. I not only connected the content of the play to its context, but I also reached out to apply the context to a discussion on a broader scale. I then discovered why the context of literature is imperative for true understanding of the w...
What child could know while watching The Chronicles of Narnia in theaters they were also getting a bible lesson? These tales unearth the theology of writer C.S. Lewis through the heart-felt emotions of joy and sorrow, terror and triumph in this fantasy world better known as Narnia. This is the work of renowned writer C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis is remembered and recognized by more people as a Christian apologist of the early and middle 20th-century because of the way his writing thrives with biblical images which present Christian theological ideas in a friendlier way for younger audiences.
The symbolism between C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the fourth book in The Chronicles of Narnia, and the New Testament in the Bible, particularly the account of Jesus’ death is not merely coincidental because The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is, in fact, an allegory. An allegory is a story with morals in which characters, plots and settings are used as symbols. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis is rich with Christian symbolism even though the allegorical nature of it is the subject of much controversy. Nonetheless, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is an allegory. In this tale, four ordinary children find a wardrobe that leads them into Narnia, an extraordinary land parallel to our universe with talking animal and fantasy creatures. An evil witch has cast a spell of eternal winter over the land and has lured one of the children into betraying the others for enchanted Turkish Delights. Meanwhile, a magical lion, the nemesis of the witch, has arrived after a 100-year absence because of the betrayal of Edmund and ancient prophecies. Soon the children find themselves as involved in the battle as the other creatures and the lion must free Narnia from the clutches of the evil witch and atones for Edmund’s betrayal. The symbolism in the characters, plots, setting, miscellaneous things and themes prove Narnia is, indeed, allegorical
The Narnia Chronicles have already established themselves as timeless works of literature. They appeal to both the atheists and the God-fearing, to both the uneducated and to scholars; to children and adults. An understanding of the Biblical allegory in these books is not essential to their appreciation. A critical analysis of these works, however, does allow the reader to more fully appreciate Lewis' unique gift to simplify complex narratives and craft beautiful children's fantasies. This, in turn, allows the reader to gain both a deeper understanding of Lewis as a skilled creative writer, and a deeper satisfaction of his art. To be able to appreciate C.S. Lewis as such an artisan can only add to one's enjoyment of his works.