The Lion And The Wardrobe Research Paper

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C.S. Lewis and Narnia, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis was born on November 29,1898, in Belfast, Ireland. He spent lots of time as a child with his brother Warren Lewis. C.S. Lewis found an interest with mystical animals as a child, along with this new interest he was very fond of Beatrix Potter’s stories (Bio.com). Lewis and his brother Warren both shared the interest of animals through a world they had created called “Boxen” where all animals, real or mythical, ran free in the wild. This love for animals for Lewis though bit back at him at times, when he was four his dog “Jacksie” had been run over and killed. He was so negatively affected by this incident that he decided to change his name to “Jacksie”. When his

This character was a lion named, Aslan. This god-like lion was intended to be a symbolic figure to that of Jesus Christ, he got his name from the turkish translation of “lion”. Aslan was the leader of Narnia and had magic abilities, this lion was a favorite amongst that of Lewis and Tolkien, even though Tolkien was against the blending of mythology and religion. Lewis was so fond of Aslan that he would address Jesus Christ as Aslan in prayer (Patheos.com).
Lewis greatly opposed the idea of making Narnia, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe into a play or movie, because he didn’t believe that the technology in that of a theatre was at the point to where it would be able to substantially perform the effects in that of the story and really give the audience the certain edge and excitement that was written within the novel itself. He also disapproved of this because he was a firm believer of giving the audience the opportunity to use their imagination while reading the story, he was big on igniting the self creative thinking of the audience. About fifty years later when the cinematic technology was good enough to tackle the effects of the story, a movie was eventually made of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe