The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe Character Analysis

At first glance the reader may think that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is just another fictional story about talking animals and children running around a mythical land named Narnia. The book is an allegorical piece of literature relating characters from the book to characters in the Bible. In Clive Staples Lewis’s novel, the author uses the symbol of the stone table and the symbol of the hero to convey to his readers the theme of Christianity in the novel. The hero represents Aslan and is an allegory to Jesus. “Aslan then offers his own life in exchange for Edmund’s…not only is Aslan merely forgiving and dying for Edmund’s sin, but the act is symbolic of Christ dying for the sins of humanity” (Brennan 7). C.S. shows readers the ultimate act of forgiveness by one giving their own life in order for the greater good of other people. Aslan was mocked and belittled as he was about to be crucified and didn’t attack or speak back at the terrible people just like Jesus. “They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the rope and put his own clothes on him. Then they led
“The Stone Table was broken into two pieces by a great crack that ran down it from end to end; and there was no Aslan” (Lewis 161). The children in the book are terrified to see no Aslan, thinking somebody took the dead body. “At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to the bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open” (NIV, Matthew 27.51-52). Here the reader can make the relation of the cracking of the Stone Table to the curtain of the temple being torn. Both instances something terrible has happened but as time passed the resurrection of Aslan and of Jesus proves that life is again restored. The children are filled with joy and happiness when they see that Aslan is standing in front of