THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
Shalein Secuna
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly called as C. S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland. His works are belonged to different genres and very popular in fiction such as The Screw tape letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problems of Pain. Lewis’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularized on stage, TV, radio, and cinema.
‘The Mountains of Mourne’ inspired Lewis to write The Chronicles of Narnia. It is a series of seven fantasy novels for …show more content…
The Wardrobe acts as a portal between the real world and the Narnian world. Narnia, a land of talking animals and other mythical creatures and it was ruled by Aslan the lion but the White Witch is the self-proclaimed queen. Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter are the four kids who discover the wardrobe and find their way to Narnia and help Aslan fight with the White witch who froze all the Narnian warriors. The children become kings and queens of this new-found land and establish the Golden Age of Narnia, leaving a legacy to be rediscovered in later books. Narnia is a strange blend of magic, myth and Christianity not only in this novel but in all his Narnia series. The title The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe stands for the good, the bad and the ugly. Good is Aslan, who saves Narnia, bad is the White Witch who tries to destroy Narnia and the Wardrobe acts as a portal between the real and the imaginary world. C. S Lewis focuses on the fantasy – adventure, dimension of the story rather than the religious doctrine underlying it. He chooses Aslan’s ability as magic rather than as