The conflict of good and evil in The Chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe


About the Author:


Every work of an artist is a psychological construction of his life experiences thus, Clive Staples Lewis born in twenty nine November 1898, a very prestigious figure who was a poet, novelist, essayist, theologian, lecturer and Christian apologist narrates his experiences through the book The Chronicles of Narnia which has been his most famous work which got popularity over stage, cinema and T.V. Lewis childhood gives reader a glimpse of his surrounding and upbringing which shows that he learned mostly under the guidance of William T. Kirkpatrick who was his father's tutor and former headmaster of Lurgan college, he studied privately with him because he found school socially competitive. But his experiences in First World War made him an atheist, later he converts himself to Christianity which gravitated his interest towards Christian theology, his religious attachment can be seen in his works, Lewis mentions the difference between good and evil and spreads moralistic lessons through the wide range of his various literary forms. The Chronicles of Narnia is C.S Lewis fantasy construction published by Geoffrey Biles in 1950.


The Story:


The characterization in Narnia is something which is related to his life Aslan (the lion), Mr. Tumnus (half human and half goat) they all talk like humans. The characters in the novel are animals who guides and saves the humans from the darkness (the Witch) who holds the evil power and ruled over Narnia for 100 years of deep winter. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia shows his experiences of First World War, in the opening scene in the novel Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie were evacuated from London like many other children during World War II to escape the Blitz in 1940. They are sent to live with a professor, who is described as a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face, although we see him with a minor appearance in the novel he was the first one who believed in Lucy's story and persuades Susan and Peter to see that Lucy is logically likely telling the truth as it is the only way to console a child of "Lucy's age" . They explore the house of the professor where Lucy finds a wardrobe the magic portal which leads Lucy in a land of forest named Narnia, she meets Tumnus (a faun) who was like a man but his legs were shaped like a goat who serves the Witch who informs him to revert if he sees humans which are called as Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve as they are the only beings who can save the Narian's from the Black Magic of the Witch and the characters head towards in the land of Narnia as super heroes to save the creatures confronting some good and bad experiences of life.

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