Yes you are right.
C.S. Lewis's specialty was Christian Allegory (allegory is symbolization using simple things). He wrote many books on faith and such with different types of stories throughout that contained allegorical christian subjects. After Lewis had become widely popular with these stories, some of his advisors sought it best that he write a children's book of some sort. Lewis, being the witty man that he was, decided to retell the story of Christ with this story.
The whole idea is: "What if God has created other worlds other than our own? How would Christianity work for them?" That is what Narnia is; another world created by God, with many parallels to the biblical stories of our world.
Aslan, clearly, represents God and Jesus Christ. For of course, in "The Magician's Nephew", Aslan is the creator of Narnia and all of it's inhabitants. And of course, in the lion, witch, and wardrobe. He gives his life to save the his children, and was later resurected, the exact same thing that Jesus Christ did for all of us.
The White Witch represents Satan and all things evil. If you notice, the White Witch at first never seems to be doing any harm directly, but by tempting others to do it for her, which is precisely how Satan works.
The four children in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, represent Christ's followers... mainly the diciples in this book. Edmund, the young boy who is tempted into betraying his own family, sort of seems to represent Judas Ascariot, the disciple who betrayed Christ and ultimately payed for his execution. Edmund is tempted by the White Witch with Turkish Delight, the sweet enchanted candies that cause it's consumer to want more and more and more until they eat themselves to death. These dangerous Turkish Delight sweets, represent Lust.
People who become lustful of things whether it be money, power, or other examples, will never be satisfied with their temporary fill. They only want more and more and more and more. They will become so obsessed that they will betray the people that they love most, only to get another taste of what they want so badly. Judas was lustful of money and became so obsessed that he sold over the life of his lord Jesus Christ only to gain a few golden coins.
Throughout the other books that follow LWW, there are tons of paralleled events that are in sync with the Bible itself.
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Miguelus_Maximus
18 years ago
C.S. Lewis said that Aslan was NOT an allegory.
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whattheheckareyou
18 years ago
Aslan is not God. Aslan is certainly a Christ-like figure, but the true God is the Emperor Beyond the Sea, who is never really seen but always seems to be somehow controlling events. Aslan is the physical representation of that Emperor in Narnia. I'm surprised nobody seems to remember the Emperor, maybe its because he's only referenced a few times throughout the series, keeping it very mysterious. And is anybody else annoyed how the new movie keeps touting itself as the first entry in the Narnia series? Whatever happened to The Magician's Nephew? Not as exciting as Lion, Witch, Wardrobe, but It laid the groundwork for the whole series.
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alennen
18 years ago
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe actually was the first book written in the Cronicles series. The Magician's Nephew came later as sort of a prequel to explain why the wardrobe could get the Pevensies into Narnia.
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MiltonSwingline
18 years ago
No actually The Magicians Nephew is the first one look at the Chronicles page on Wikipedia this is what it says:
Gresham quoted Lewis' reply to a letter from an American fan in 1957, who was having an argument with his mother about the order:
"I think I agree with your order (i.e. chronological) for reading the books more than with your mother's. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last. But I found as I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. I'm not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published."
Nevertheless, the reordering has angered many fans of the series, who appreciate the original order as it introduces important parts of the Narnia universe in the early part of the series and then provides explanation for them later in the prequels, in particular the creation story in The Magician's Nephew. Other arguments for the publication order include that Prince Caspian is subtitled "The Return to Narnia", and that the following fragments of text from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe support it as being the first book in the series:
None of the children knew who Aslan was, any more than you do.
That is the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right, it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.
So it doesn't matter what order the fans like Lewis wanted them to be read in that order but to Disney it doesn't matter because Lewis Family sold his estate and lost all rights to Narnia.
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wogglove
17 years ago
I've never had any interest in religion and I enjoy the Narnia chronicles as awork of pure fantasy as it can also be looked at from the athiet's perspective. Just look, it's quite clear, Aslan only represents the sun. the sun is why we have spring (the vernal equinox) and Christmas (the winter solstice) and without the sun of course it would be always winter and never Christmas. When fairy tales were first invented many differnt cultures made up the same story of a hero that came to Earth and did all the things based on the twelve cycles of the sun.
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