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a b c d Lindskoog, Kathryn Ann (1997). Journey into Narnia: C. S. Lewis's Tales Explored. Hope Publishing House. p. 87. ISBN 0-932727-89-1. Ward, Michael (2008). Planet Narnia: the seven heavens in the imagination of C. S. Lewis. Oxford University Press. It should be mentioned that it is likely that Mrs. Kirke's illness was likely inspired by, if not outright based upon, the real-life death of Lewis's mother when he was a very little boy. Lewis knew suffering, and that comes out in the character of Digory Kirke. The reader's heart breaks for the small boy, as his pain is so vivid. During one of these indoors adventures, they are making their way through the interconnected sections towards an abandoned house, when they wind up in the attic of Digory's *uncle's house*. This is when the plot is set in motion.
Parallels may also be found in Lewis's other writings. Jadis's references to "reasons of State", and her claim to own the people of Charn and to be beyond morality, represent the eclipse of the medieval Christian belief in natural law by the political concept of sovereignty, as embodied first in royal absolutism and then in modern dictatorships. [26] Uncle Andrew represents the Faustian element in the origins of modern science. [27] The Holy Spirit and the breath of life [ edit ] As Digory approaches the still singing Lion, more life is sprouting about him. Mounds began to grow in the ground and from them sprang numerous different animals. As the animals begin to gather around the Lion, the cab horse trots past Digory and joins the other beasts. From each species of animal, the Lion chooses two who remain with him as the remaining animals wander into the forest. The Lion breathes on his chosen and commands them to awake and be speaking beasts. Sammons, Martha C. (2004). A Guide Through Narnia. Regent College Publishing. pp.128–9. ISBN 1-57383-308-8. Schools programmes". The Radio Times. No.4404. 11 September 2008. p.79. ISSN 0033-8060 . Retrieved 1 November 2019.Aslan himself is a towering figure in The Magician's Nephew. His song brings form and shape to the world of Narnia, creating seas and lands, plants and animals. The song varies according to what he is creating, but its overall impression is one of joy and magnificence to everyone except Jadis and Uncle Andrew, who loath it. Jadis even throws a piece of a street lamp at Aslan, striking the golden lion in its head. Aslan pays it no notice, and it falls to the ground and grows into the street lamp that Lucy discovers in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which will always mark the Lantern Wastes of Narnia. The story begins in London during the summer of 1900. Two children, Digory and Polly, meet while playing in the adjacent gardens of a row of terraced houses. Likewise, his heroes are comically heroic: they are not people who struggle to be good, who have motivations and an internal life, they are just habitually, inexplicably good. There is nothing respectable in their characters, nothing in their philosophies for us to aspire to, they are just suffused with an indistinct 'goodness' which, like evil, is taken for granted.
Polly lives in row housing. One day, while she is in her garden, a grubby faced young boy pokes his head over the wall from the garden next door. Since no children had ever been in that house before, Polly is curious. The boy had apparently been crying and This is the perfect introduction to Narnia that shows how the world was created, the origins of the lamp post and how evil came to enter. If you are new to the series I would recommend starting with this book first as you can get an idea of the world, how it was created and some of the history which will help make sense of things as you read the rest of the chronicles.
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Within the ruling family of Charn, there was knowledge of an evil spell, the Deplorable Word, which would destroy all life except the one who spoke it, though the word itself was a mystery. Although her ancestors had bound themselves and their descendants with oaths never to seek knowledge of this spell, Jadis had sought it out and learned the word "in a secret place and paid a terrible price to learn it." Her sister knew Jadis had discovered the Deplorable Word but did not think Jadis would use it. Facing defeat, Jadis spoke the Deplorable Word, which annihilated all life under the sun apart from herself. The palace continues crumbling around them and the great lady takes the children out of the palace. To get out, the woman utters a spell which vaporizes the door and they exit onto a terrace of sorts where they could look out over the countryside. Everything as far as they could see was as silent and dead as a city could be. A great red sun, a dying sun, was low on the horizon, thus explaining the reddish glow inside. The woman proceeds to tell the story of Charn and the battle which destroyed it. The woman is Jadis, the last Queen of Charn. Her sister refused to release the throne and the battle ensued. When the last of her soldiers fell in battle, Jadis stood on the very terrace where the children now stood. As her sister came up the steps, Jadis uttered the Deplorable Word and all life, except her own, was blotted out forever. Digory asks why the sun is so red. As he finds out, it is because the sun is older and dying. Since the sun in our own world is smaller and yellower, it is younger. This interests Jadis and she insists upon being taken to England at once. The children, unsure of how to proceed, try to talk the queen out of going. Jadis offers a tale as to Digory's association with royalty and how Andrew must be the ruler of our world. Polly tells her that the suggestion is rubbish and the queen, insulted, grabs Polly by the hair. In doing so, she releases her hold on Polly's hand (which is why neither she nor Digory could reach their rings). Once her hand is free, Polly yells to Digory to touch his ring and the world vanished from around them and they found themselves again in the Wood. Lewis had originally intended only to write the one Narnia novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. However, when Roger Lancelyn Green asked him how a lamp-post came to be standing in the midst of Narnian woodland, Lewis was intrigued enough by the question to attempt to find an answer by writing The Magician's Nephew, which features a younger version of Professor Kirke from the first novel. [4] Even so, Uncle Andrew hears only animal noises, while Digory, Polly, and others hear animals talking and joking. "Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are," says the narrator, "is that you very often succeed," and Uncle Andrew's insistence on practicality has made him very stupid, because he is determined not to understand the miraculous events occurring around him. Charn is a fictional city appearing in the 1955 book The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book published in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, written as a prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Charn, and the world of which it is the capital city, are the birthplace of Jadis, also known as the White Witch, who later seizes control of Narnia.
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