The Illusion Of Reality In Narnia By C. S. Lewis
In Narnia, the children grow up in what appears to be a sheltered world. The four children in the real world are isolated and away from the reality, which is a world of war and devastation. This would explain why C.S. Lewis made the world of Narnia a world of perpetual winter. Since the children were so oblivious of what their world actually was, their perception was frozen and they were unable to see what was truly going on. As the novel progresses, the four realize that there is a war, and as they start to realize who they are truly meant to be, the world thaws around them, and there is no longer a winter. This moment of “thaw” is when the barrier between the winter and the illusion of reality breaks. C.S. Lewis even makes a point that “thawing”
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This is Spring. What are we to do? Your winter has been destroyed, I tell you! This is Aslan’s doing.” (Lewis 122). Lewis used biblical allegories to explain that in his view God is the way to see the world for what it truly is, and God is the one that brings spring into our lives. Lewis makes known that to discover true reality, one must throw off the illusion with the help of God.
In Blankets, almost all of the book takes place during the winter and it just so happens not much of this book is positive for Craig. In reality, it is very easy to think of love as a warm experience, making this cold weather that Craig is surrounded by significant to the truth of his reality. He must believe that his life was cold and unforgiving, which could be why almost ninety percent of the book takes place in the winter months. Much like how the Pevensie children were isolated from the world Craig isolated himself from the truth about his world and about Raina. After she cut him out of her world, Craig’s world finally began to melt, “And slowly snow began to melt… many grasses poked through the receding snow. Patches of white swallowed up in the till of the fields. New
This is Spring. What are we to do? Your winter has been destroyed, I tell you! This is Aslan’s doing.” (Lewis 122). Lewis used biblical allegories to explain that in his view God is the way to see the world for what it truly is, and God is the one that brings spring into our lives. Lewis makes known that to discover true reality, one must throw off the illusion with the help of God.
In Blankets, almost all of the book takes place during the winter and it just so happens not much of this book is positive for Craig. In reality, it is very easy to think of love as a warm experience, making this cold weather that Craig is surrounded by significant to the truth of his reality. He must believe that his life was cold and unforgiving, which could be why almost ninety percent of the book takes place in the winter months. Much like how the Pevensie children were isolated from the world Craig isolated himself from the truth about his world and about Raina. After she cut him out of her world, Craig’s world finally began to melt, “And slowly snow began to melt… many grasses poked through the receding snow. Patches of white swallowed up in the till of the fields. New