Re: Their secret country... (minimanifesto)clockwork_skyJanuary 5 2011, 05:31:53 UTC
Further, as is the case with many fairy tales, I have noted the tendency in Narnia-fandom to relate the White Witch to Edmund's development into puberty and coming into knowledge of sexuality. (Many, many fairy tales are metaphors for this sort of thing as we all know.) Personally, I am sort of squicked by this notion, though I completely understand where people get it. However, I do very much see where the White Witch remains part of Edmund and does tempt him in many ways, if not sexually in a sense that stimulates his natural appetite for power. Given Edmund's being plagued with this temptation, I see that as they age and matured, became more reliant upon one another and came to love one another and their other two siblings more, being all alone in Narnia, Lucy may well have proved to be some sense of stability and very direct juxtaposition with the source of his temptation toward evil. (I am reminded of the nightmare scene in the recent Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie.)
Further, Edmund and Lucy seem to have been pushed closer together, even after their various returns from Narnia. Ultimately, Peter and Susan's relationship (regardless of its nature, based upon interpretation) and even Susan's relationship with Lucy and Edmund seems to have become strained. Instead of this happening, Edmund and Lucy seem to have become sort of "all each other have" even in this world, spending hours on their own, talking about what they've left behind and lost.
In both of these cases, I also point out the fact that there is the obscure line in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which many people use as a justification for an alternative interpretation of family relationships. Everything in Narnia seems to hold a sort of purity, unless it itself is evil, and I think one of the primary points of Narnia is that real love is certainly never. The Pevensies had completely forgotten their lives on Earth, during The Golden Age. However, they had not forgotten one another. Alone, away from earthly society and its taboo, reasoning and imperfection, these are simply what I see, and I'm fixated on these notions.
Further, Edmund and Lucy seem to have been pushed closer together, even after their various returns from Narnia. Ultimately, Peter and Susan's relationship (regardless of its nature, based upon interpretation) and even Susan's relationship with Lucy and Edmund seems to have become strained. Instead of this happening, Edmund and Lucy seem to have become sort of "all each other have" even in this world, spending hours on their own, talking about what they've left behind and lost.
In both of these cases, I also point out the fact that there is the obscure line in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which many people use as a justification for an alternative interpretation of family relationships. Everything in Narnia seems to hold a sort of purity, unless it itself is evil, and I think one of the primary points of Narnia is that real love is certainly never. The Pevensies had completely forgotten their lives on Earth, during The Golden Age. However, they had not forgotten one another. Alone, away from earthly society and its taboo, reasoning and imperfection, these are simply what I see, and I'm fixated on these notions.
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