Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here.
In one of his last letters, written in March 1961, Lewis writes: Īlthough Lewis did not consider them allegorical, and did not set out to incorporate Christian themes in Wardrobe, he was not hesitant to point them out after the fact. In reality, however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all. If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. As Lewis wrote in a letter to a Mrs Hook in December 1958: This indicates Lewis' view of Narnia as a fictional parallel universe. He preferred to call the Christian aspects of them "suppositional". Lewis, an expert on the subject of allegory and the author of The Allegory of Love, maintained that the Chronicles were not allegory on the basis that there is no one-to-one correspondence between characters and events in the books, and figures and events in Christian doctrine. At first there wasn't anything Christian about them that element pushed itself in of its own accord. It all began with images a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument, then collected information about child psychology and decided what age group I’d write for then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out 'allegories' to embody them.
As he wrote in his essay Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's To Be Said (1956):
However, he did not originally set out to incorporate Christian theological concepts into his Narnia stories it is something that occurred as he wrote them. Lewis was an adult convert to Christianity and had previously authored some works on Christian apologetics and fiction with Christian themes. In addition to numerous traditional Christian themes, the series borrows characters and ideas from Greek and Roman mythology, and from British and Irish folklore.Ĭhristian parallels Specific Christian parallels may be found in the entries for individual books and characters.Ĭ.S.
It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C.
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