Draft Enthymeme Argument Sentence
The fantasy novel turned film, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, written by C.S. Lewis has overt Christian symbolism and its story is structured around the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ as well as infiltrated with other messages relating to stories in the Bible, and can therefore can be noted as to have been influenced by the Bible.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (film)
- Mr Tumnus refers to Lucy as a “Daughter of Eve” (Narnians refer to all human women this way and men as “Sons of Adam”)
- biblical reference points to humans as divine creations in God’s image, and their fated destiny to rule Narnia above all of the other magical creatures who live there is in a way a divine right
- Genesis
- Sin and corruption in Narnia in the absence of its ruler, Aslan (representative of Christ in the movie)
- Father Christmas
- “Long live the true king!”
- Reference to Aslan but also to Jesus
- “Long live the true king!”
- Snow melting
- Symbol of the strength and power of christianity against nonbelievers (the White Witch)
- Aslan and the White Witch battle at the Stone Table (biblical reference to the stone tablets bearing the ten commandments)
- Exodus
- The White Witch as an allegory to Satan
- When she has the “right” to kill Edmund for being a traitor similar to Satan in which sinners “belong” to in hell
- Aslan’s death
- Symbolic of the crucifiction
- Taunted, shamed, and shaved in public
- Sacrifices his own life for Edmund (like Jesus’s sacrifice)
- Matthew
- Aslan’s resurrection
- The 4 siblings and Aslan’s triumph at the end of the movie
- Represent the inherent righteousness and ultimate unassailability of Christian values
- Central focus of movie to bible
- the struggle between Christianity’s tenets of sacrifice, empathy, and striving towards goodness and godlessness, sin, and selfishness
- Self-discovery and redemption
- Story of David or Joseph
- 4 siblings are prophesied to save Narnia
Scholarly Sources
https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/sociologyofreligion/tag/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/
Walls, Kathryn. “An Analogous Adversary: The Old Dispensation in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 28, no. 2 (99), 2017, pp. 202–218. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26499447. Accessed 16 Mar. 2021.
Ruud, Jay. “Aslan’s Sacrifice and the Doctrine of Atonement in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.’” Mythlore, vol. 23, no. 2 (88), 2001, pp. 15–22. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26814624. Accessed 16 Mar. 2021.
“The Christian Imaginary: Narnia.” C.S. Lewis, by William Gray, Liverpool University Press, 1998, pp. 60–89. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5rf40g.11. Accessed 16 Mar. 2021.