Narnia - Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe

“Lucy looks into A Wardrobe”

The chapter “Lucy looks into A Wardrobe” is from the classic children’s fantasy novel “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” which is the first book of seven written in the series “The Chronicles of Narnia”. The novel is published in 1950 by the English author C.S. Lewis. Lewis was a British author who was born in Belfast in 1898, he was a very Christian man and a very religious writer, he died in 1963. Today he is mostly known for “The Chronicles of Narnia.

The novel is about four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. Lucy, the main character in this chapter, is the youngest, followed by Edmund and Susan, and Peter is the eldest. They lived with an old, unmarried professor’s house during the World War Two. It’s a very big and mysterious house, so the four siblings decide to explore the many rooms. They finds a big room where the only thing in it, is a wardrobe. Edmund, Peter and Susan moves on, but Lucy stays behind and go into the wardrobe. She comes into another world called Narnia, a fantasy world where they meet different creatures, for example Aslan and the White Witch. The four children join the fight versus the White Witch, and they are crowned Kings and Queens of Narnia when they beat her and after that, they returned back to the real world. The novel is told by a third person narrator, which we can see in the following quote: “He also had a tail, but Lucy did not notice this at first because it was neatly caught up over the arm that held the umbrella so as to keep it from trailing in the snow” (p. 27, l. 36), but our narrator has a bird’s-eye view of everything that happening in the novel, and in this chapter “Lucy looks into A Wardrobe” we specifically focus on Lucy. The story also takes place in parallel worlds. There is the real world in the professor’s big and mysterious house, and when the World War Two is started. Then the children goes through the portal, the wardrobe, and comes into Narnia, the fantasy world, and when the children go to Narnia through the portal, the time stops in the real world. In Narnia there is a lot of supernatural creatures, for example the Faun and Aslan the lion. “From the waist upwards he was like a man, but his legs were shaped like a goat’s (the hair on them was glossy black) and instead of feet he had goat’s hoofs” “He also had a tail …” (p. 27, l. 34) in these quotes you get the impression of something supernatural, because it is a mix of a human and a goat. The faun is the first person Lucy meets in Narnia. The lion, Aslan is also supernatural because he can talk, and besides that the children really likes him and care about him, which we can tell from these quotes: “ ’Oh, Aslan!’ cried both the children … ‘aren’t you dead then, dear Aslan …’ ‘not now’ said Aslan”.