The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe Analysis

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C. S. Lewis believed that "a children's story is the best art-form for something you have to say" (Lewis, 1982, p. 32) so he took a fairy-tale image from his childhood, a faun carrying an umbrella, inserted a lion about which he had been having dreams and began a timeless children's story that ended up as Christian allegory only because the Christian "element pushed itself in of its own accord" (Lewis, 1982, p. 46).
Lewis liked the fairy tale form because it is simple, straightforward and excluded a love interest.
And the moment I [Lewis] thought of that [the Fairy Tale] I fell in love with the Form itself: its brevity, its severe restraints on description, its flexible traditionalism, its inflexible hostility to all analysis, digression, reflections,
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For example, Aslan’s death and coming to life is a portrayal of Christ’s substitutionary atonement. It does not matter that it was not on a cross or that some elements are separated or out of order in time from the biblical gospel story. What matters is that the picture is correct – and it is. Aslan (Christ) has willingly humiliated himself and died for the sons of Adam (specifically Edmund) whom sin and death (the White Witch) have a right to take due to the “deep magic” (the Law) of Narnia. But Aslan rises again (resurrection), accompanied by an earthquake and discovered by two girls (the two Marys). His resurrection destroys the power of the deep magic over mankind (nailing our sins to the cross). Aslan then goes on to breathe life into his warriors (the Holy Spirit coming on all disciples) so that they may wage war with him against the White Witch and her armies (spiritual warfare). Aslan ultimately wins, bringing in a re-created world (new heavens and earth). Lewis’ fairy-tale is basically the gospel story, written simply, for all (children and adults) to read and enjoy. It presents a Christian worldview through a mythic tale that takes place in Narnia, a world of magic. In Narnia, virtually every fairy tale or mythic creature imaginable comes alive. But unlike much fantasy, Narnia is another world—a separate creation from