Luke Taylor Narnia 2: Jadis' deceiving beauty

In the Magician’s Nephew, the antagonist of the novel is an evil witch named Jadis. I thought it was very interesting to look at the way C.S. Lewis depicts her as “beautiful.” In fact, the first time the main protagonist, Digory, comes across Jadis she is a solid sculpture, yet he describes her as a very pretty sight. In this entry I want to compare Jadis to the sin we all struggle with and deal with. What is interesting is that our sin can be very appealing to us at first. It becomes something that we think we desire and in order to get the satisfaction of it we struggle to deny it. In the Magician’s Newphew, Digory sees Jadis as this beautiful, attractive being yet the reality is that she is very ugly and essentially and awful being. Lewis does a really neat job the way he portrays her deceitful beauty as something worthwhile but in the long run leads to corruption; just like our sin we falsely desire. I personally think Lewis throws this twist in purposefully in order to show the reader a different way to look at mankind’s struggle with sin which is pretty fascinating to me.