The Boy Who Chronicles Of Narnia Analysis

The selected text, The Chronicles of Narnia is in the fame of critical study since the seventies, lending itself to many themes and versions. It makes clear thinking of religion through insisting imagination as a medium in creating texts of hope in an age of wisdom, even in theology. In the earlier critical studies, Chronicles of Narnia is a text with moral biblical and ethical messages, but of late, it is being viewed with acrimony. Although it has survived countless criticisms, today it is endangered on one front by the dubious exaltation accorded by corporate marketing and on the other, by the voices of the scholars who have begun to denounce them as racist and sexist works; as the following observation of Michael White, aptly shown in C. S. Lewis The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. Most vocal in their dislike of Lewis and his work are some members of the British literati who see Lewis as old-fashioned and politically incorrect. The writer Philip Hensher, who has been a Booker Prize judge, has called Lewis’s Narnia books

One of the famous juvenile literary critic, Peter Hunt defines children’s literature as “a species of literature defined in terms of the reader rather than the authors intentions or the texts themselves” but Chronicles of Narnia is privileged to be defined by the author himself as children’s stories. The children’s who are the prominent target audience defined by Lewis are not aware of the truths, myth, philosophy and theology present in Chronicles of Narnia; because the declaration of the message reaches its defined goal via the play of “fairy-tale” which acts as the