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Dragons! *grins*
More substantially, has anyone seen truepenny's thoughts on Narnia? It's interesting. Can't say I ever took them apart that deeply, just… well. I'm not that fond of having allegory thrust right into my face (though I think my favourite of the series was Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and there's definitely something going on there- though it might not be as deep as I'm thinking; it's been a while). Probably people will point at The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as being the most allegorical, and there's a fair case there, but me, I felt The Last Battle pulled things a lot more than TLTWTW did.
Or it could be that The Last Battle is the one in which Narnia ends, or it could be the last line or so, which says something about Aslan changing and 'great and wonderful marvels which cannot be chronicled from here on out' and which made me feel as though I, the reader, was being left out and being talked down to, since the suggestion is that those who are in this 'impure world cannot enter the stories after what you've been shown'; i.e., that you can't find out what goes after because you're a dirty nasty sinner.
…I think I was nine or ten at the time, though.
For me, I think the rest of the series got away with the messages because they were mostly brighter and had a bit more comedy, though Magician's Nephew and Silver Chair fall somewhere in between.
Not to say that other series couldn't do with pulling the message back a little, too. I liked Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, but I'm a bit more ambivalent about The Subtle Knife (that mostly because we started off with Will, which strikes a different set of annoyances for me), and The Amber Spyglass felt as though it was pushing the message a little too hard. In this more for the story than the author's point of view, really.
*pokes own writing*
More substantially, has anyone seen truepenny's thoughts on Narnia? It's interesting. Can't say I ever took them apart that deeply, just… well. I'm not that fond of having allegory thrust right into my face (though I think my favourite of the series was Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and there's definitely something going on there- though it might not be as deep as I'm thinking; it's been a while). Probably people will point at The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as being the most allegorical, and there's a fair case there, but me, I felt The Last Battle pulled things a lot more than TLTWTW did.
Or it could be that The Last Battle is the one in which Narnia ends, or it could be the last line or so, which says something about Aslan changing and 'great and wonderful marvels which cannot be chronicled from here on out' and which made me feel as though I, the reader, was being left out and being talked down to, since the suggestion is that those who are in this 'impure world cannot enter the stories after what you've been shown'; i.e., that you can't find out what goes after because you're a dirty nasty sinner.
…I think I was nine or ten at the time, though.
For me, I think the rest of the series got away with the messages because they were mostly brighter and had a bit more comedy, though Magician's Nephew and Silver Chair fall somewhere in between.
Not to say that other series couldn't do with pulling the message back a little, too. I liked Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, but I'm a bit more ambivalent about The Subtle Knife (that mostly because we started off with Will, which strikes a different set of annoyances for me), and The Amber Spyglass felt as though it was pushing the message a little too hard. In this more for the story than the author's point of view, really.
*pokes own writing*