Topic > Allegory in The Chronicles of Narnia - 1854

Once out of the water, Eustace realizes that he is no longer a dragon; he's a boy again. Eustace was “born again” through a process of self-confrontation and could not have done so without Aslan's help. In the biblical text, the events of the baptisms of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth performed in the New Testament are similar to the “baptism” of Eustace in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In showing the correlations between The Chronicles of Narnia and Christianity, C.S. Lewis's purpose in writing The Chronicles of Narnia was to demonstrate that a myth contains truth. In C.S. Lewis' Myth Becomes Fact, he explains how “While we love man, endure pain, enjoy pleasure, we do not intellectually apprehend pleasure, pain, or personality. When you begin to do so, however, concrete realities descend to the level of simple instances or examples.... Myth is the partial solution to this tragic dilemma. By enjoying a great myth we almost come close to experiencing as concrete what could otherwise only be understood as an abstraction. (CS Lewis, Myth Became Fact, 65-66). This helps explain why and how the myth contains truth and why C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia. Being