Class:10-7-14
During this evening's class we gathered around the fire to discuss our stories and the many parallels found in the Narnia series. Not only did we draw connections to the creation story of the bible; Aslan's artful form of creation or that there was only void before Aslan bestowed creation to that universe, but we also discussed the character's presence in the stories. Just as I thought we saw Uncle Andrew as a dramatization of hubris, a man who selfishly seeks out more magic to gain a sense of control in his own life but simply ends up illustrating what little he has control over.While we thought the witch was, to an extent, Aslan's opposite, I often thought that the witch was an attempt to represent the nature of corruption found in man. She served as a example to show that man can often have something that was once in itself beautiful but after being twisted into something that only cares about personal gain at the expense of others becomes a perverse form of beauty. This is illustrated in my mind by the constant statements about her beauty that's always "missing" something which makes her captivating by some and slightly disconcerting to others.
If I had one question as a result of this class it would be: what is the relevance of song? To be honest I'm not sure how it fits into this class as a whole.
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