Well, but though that's how it seems to them, and to us who have fallen in love with the wonders of Narnia, I think that's not how Aslan saw it: didn't he say that they had to learn to know him in this world, too? Extrapolating a bit, admittedly boosted by my personal philosophy, perhaps Aslan and Lewis are saying that our world is just as wonderful and worthy of adventures, though they seem more mundane to us. Their experiences in Narnia give them the confidence to face our world, just as Jill and Eustace's experiences of Aslan and the sun give them the confidence to face the Green Witch.
(And then that would tie in with my theory about Susan, that her real problem was that she couldn't believe in more than one world at a time; she was too inherently pragmatic. When she was in Narnia she forgot about our world more thoroughly than the others, and when she was in our world she (forgot about/refused to remember) Narnia. Which means she couldn't apply the lessons from one to the other. On the allegorical level, she's like someone who has a profound religious experience, but then gets caught up in “the real world" and forgets all about it – which makes The Last Battle make a lot more sense than if it were all about lipstick, though I'm still only resigned to it because I believe there's always time for her to remember.)
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Date: 2011-02-08 09:44 (UTC)Well, but though that's how it seems to them, and to us who have fallen in love with the wonders of Narnia, I think that's not how Aslan saw it: didn't he say that they had to learn to know him in this world, too? Extrapolating a bit, admittedly boosted by my personal philosophy, perhaps Aslan and Lewis are saying that our world is just as wonderful and worthy of adventures, though they seem more mundane to us. Their experiences in Narnia give them the confidence to face our world, just as Jill and Eustace's experiences of Aslan and the sun give them the confidence to face the Green Witch.
(And then that would tie in with my theory about Susan, that her real problem was that she couldn't believe in more than one world at a time; she was too inherently pragmatic. When she was in Narnia she forgot about our world more thoroughly than the others, and when she was in our world she (forgot about/refused to remember) Narnia. Which means she couldn't apply the lessons from one to the other. On the allegorical level, she's like someone who has a profound religious experience, but then gets caught up in “the real world" and forgets all about it – which makes The Last Battle make a lot more sense than if it were all about lipstick, though I'm still only resigned to it because I believe there's always time for her to remember.)