Comments | carbonelle: Narnia For Dummies?

carbonelle

Narnia For Dummies?

Dec 03, 2005 21:41

With the new Narnia movie out in Theatres, midnight next Thursday (why yes, I am just about insane enough - I still haven't managed to find a sitter for Friday, after all), I know there'll be people cough-idiotjournalists-cough running amok, announcing the story as "Christian Allegory". Allow me to head them all off at the pass with this quote, ( Read more... )

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persephone_kore December 5 2005, 00:26:17 UTC

*blinks* The article is quite interesting... but there's something a bit startling about the fact that among "related articles" is listed one on how to get the timing of love scenes right in a romance novel.

Thinking of you... meerkat1 December 5 2005, 05:43:43 UTC

With every day we get closer to the opening of the movie, I think about you even more. You my beloved fellow Bujoldian AND Lewisphile.

I have been on travel so much the past few months and I don't have you number with me, but I would really really like to talk to you.

If you give me a call at 214-957-9951 I would be so happy. And I'll call you back, I have unlimited LD on this phone number.

"Higher Up and Deeper In"
Hugs
L

Re: Thinking of you... carbonelle December 7 2005, 05:45:20 UTC

Thanks MK.

I'll try to get in touch this weekend.

dessieoctavia December 7 2005, 00:25:06 UTC

OK, clearly I'm missing something. I suspect some subtlety in the definition of "allegory". Why do the Narnia books not count as an allegory?

carbonelle December 7 2005, 05:44:53 UTC

Think of allegory as a kind of story-long metaphor. For The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to be Christian Allegory, there'd need to be characters and plot elements mapping to the biblical story, like pieces to a puzzle.

In fact, the characters themselves would be less, well, characters in a story, than representations of those puzzle pieces... mere personifications. While Aslan maps nicely to Christ in many ways (because, in point of fact, he is Christ, as Christ would appear if such a world as Narnia existed) the other characters aren't mere personifications of the biblical roles or Christian concepts, as their parts in later stories attest. Edmund, after all, doesn't hang himself (Judas), and the White Witch isn't a sanctimonious politician at all nor is she Satan... or even Original Sin. She's just the person who forces Aslan to sacrifice himself for the Narnians ( ... )