The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

There is a lingering theme throughout the entire Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe novel by C.S. Lewis and the similar Narnia movie, it’s a “behind the scenes” type of transformation. Maturity backed with individualistic idealism could be considered a main theme in most movies, but what makes Narnia idiosyncratic comparatively? Three disquisition modeling points include character maturity, common sense, and strongly improved qualities which will be elaborated on throughout this essay.

In a general overview of the book, four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy venture into another world through a wardrobe. In the middle Edmund betrays his family, and joins the bad guys. The family struggles to overcome many

There are two problems with this, first off it is easier for most people to teach their knowledge to others through actions rather than words. This is why I find books to not always be the best learning tool. Second, books get boring after a while of learning about the same general topic. This is why children need to be taught skills that can be applied to the real world, and in the Narnia books all the characters learn valuable life skills.

A big reason that Narnia is valuable for its readers is that some of the characters traits can be picked up through the text, even by a younger audience. As an author it is fairly easy to portray character traits, as you can set up the characters to succeed or fail from the beginning. However, keeping the characters rooted to their own character traits can be a challenge. Some authors find keeping the characters traits the same is not helpful because readers don’t get to watch the characters grow up and

Lewis did a wonderful job of allowing the four children to grow, and flourish in many levels of development. It could be said that Peter matured less than the others, being the oldest and most mature already. Susan didn’t mature much either though, however both Peter and Susan mature more in the later books. Edmund grew a lot throughout the book in the beginning before he turned against his family, he said “I’ll pay you all out for this, you pack of stuck-up, self satisfied pigs”(Lewis, Ch. 17). He basically went from traitor to slightly decent human being. Lastly, Lucy who is the youngest of the four siblings didn’t really mature, rather than mature she stayed as the foundation of loyalty for the group and brought them close in times of need.

Common sense is an undervalued quality in our culture today because people that don’t have it don’t understand how important it is. Why they don’t attempt to teach it in school is beyond me, but the characters in the chronicles of Narnia learn it in an unusual way. They end up walking through a wardrobe into another world, and are seen as prophets who must be the line of foreseen