C.S. Lewis's World View 

Narnia reveals C.S. Lewis’s Christian world view. What is the god of Narnia like? What is the nature of the Narnian world? What is the cause of evil and suffering? What is the meaning of history? The answers to these questions will reveal C.S. Lewis’s world view. Aslan is the god of Narnia. Like God he created Narnia for his creatures. He died for a traitor, but came back to life. He wants his creations the love and respect him.

 The nature of Narnia helps us to further understand C.S. Lewis’s world view. Aslan created Narnia to be a perfect and peaceful place. He created animals and creatures to enjoy and care for it. He created it with no evil. All his creatures were kind and good. Aslan loved Narnia and its inhabitants. They loved him. God also created our world perfectly but when man chose to sin it became a sinful and suffering world.

Narnia is no longer perfect. Digory and the witch both played a large role in the evil in Narnia. Digory ringing the bell was like Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Both Digory and the witch were in Narnia on the day of its creation. Digory obeyed Aslan but the witch was jealous and frightened by Aslan’s power. She decided to make Narnia her home. She convinced some of Aslan’s good creatures to side with her and make Narnia as miserable as possible.

In The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe four human children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy stumbled into Narnia through a magical wardrobe. Three follow Aslan but one, Edmund, sides with the witch. The witch and Aslan both know that since Edmund is a traitor his life belongs to the witch. Like Jesus, Aslan takes Edmund’s place and is killed by the witch. Unlike the witch, Aslan knows that since he is sinless and willing to die for another, he won’t stay dead. He knows this from “The Deeper Magic from Before the Dawn of Time.” The witch only knows “The Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time.”

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