Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia): Discover where the magic began in this illustrated prequel to the children’s classics by C.S. Lewis: Book 1

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Lewis, C. S. (1966). "Different Tastes in Literature". In Walter Hooper (ed.). On Stories: and other essays on literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p.121. As Jadis leads the children through the decaying palace, she describes the cruelty of Charn and its leaders. She points out dungeons and torture chambers to them and recounts that her great-grandfather once invited seven hundred nobles to a banquet and slaughtered them all, "before they had drunk their fill," for "they had rebellious thoughts." Como obra, El sobrino del mago es bastante básica y sencilla, y no da para hacerle una reseña muy profunda o extensa, exceptuando las alegorías y paralelismos que hay con el cristianismo. Por ejemplo: Aslan agrupando a parejas de ciertos animales para darles el don de la palabra, se equipara a Noé reuniendo un par de cada tipo de animal para salvaguardarlos en su arca por el diluvio universal; las manzanas plateadas y el jardín en que se hallan claramente son una representación del fruto prohibido y del mítico Jardín del Edén; en dicho jardín, Jadis y sus intenciones simbolizan a la serpiente tentadora de los relatos bíblicos, etc.

But then, Lewis' world is mostly a faultless one. People never act or decide, they are lead along by empty symbols of pure good or pure evil, following one or the other because they are naive. As usual, Lewis' view of humanity is predictably dire: always too naive, too foolish to know what good and evil are, even when they are right in front of us, and yet we are apparently still to be reviled and cursed when they make the wrong decision, even if we couldn't have known what we were about. I could intuitively sense, within the first few chapters, that this book influenced not only J.R.R. Tolkien, but Robert Jordan and J.K. Rowling, as well. I could feel it, I could feel the connection between their writings and this work. The element of the cupboard leading to a new world Lewis proceeded to use in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but the snowy Narnia of that book is quite unlike the balmy Garden of the Hesperides, most of whose major mythological features appear as attributes of the sacred Garden in The Magician's Nephew where it differs from the Biblical or Miltonian Eden. It is set in the far West of the world; it has a watchful guardian; a hero (Digory) is sent, like Hercules, to fetch an apple from it; a female villain (Jadis) steals another of the apples, like Eris. Since the eponymous Hesperides were daughters of Hesperus, the god of the planet Venus in the evening, advocates of the planetary theory adduce this as evidence for a special association between The Magician's Nephew and Venus. [35] Edith Nesbit [ edit ] Polly lives in row housing. One day, while she is in her garden, a grubby faced young boy pokes his head over the wall from the garden next door. Since no children had ever been in that house before, Polly is curious. The boy had apparently been crying and Even so, Uncle Andrew hears only animal noises, while Digory, Polly, and others hear animals talking and joking. "Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are," says the narrator, "is that you very often succeed," and Uncle Andrew's insistence on practicality has made him very stupid, because he is determined not to understand the miraculous events occurring around him.Fourth 'Chronicles of Narnia' Movie in Works From Mark Gordon Co". Deadline. 1 October 2013 . Retrieved 4 October 2014. After Digory puts on the yellow ring, he suddenly finds himself emerging in a light-filled wood with many small ponds. Polly is there, and despite both children being in a dreamy haze, they eventually remember what’s happened and make a plan to return home. At the last minute, they decide to explore other pools to see what kinds of worlds might exist there. The children switch to green rings, join hands, and jump into a different pool, which deposits them in a cold, ruined, apparently vacant world called Charn. They wander through crumbling courtyards until they enter a hall filled with the frozen forms of dozens of richly-dressed people. There’s also a little golden bell with a hammer beside it. After a heated argument (Polly senses danger and wants to go home; Digory doesn’t want to be driven mad with curiosity), Digory strikes the bell with the hammer to see what will happen. Moments later, a fierce, beautiful queen is awakened from her enchanted sleep and approaches them. Vaus, Will; Gresham, Douglas (2004). Mere theology: a guide to the thought of C.S. Lewis. Inter Varsity Press. pp.76–7. ISBN 0-8308-2782-X. Narnia: Walden, Fox in discussions on The Magician's Nephew". Bryan Lufkin. Inside Movies. Entertainment Weekly (EW.com). 23 March 2011. Confirmed 10 December 2012.

Jennings, Coleman A.; Sendak, Maurice (2005). Theatre for Young Audiences. Macmillan. pp.46–7. ISBN 0-312-33714-0. C. S. Lewis borrowed several elements for this book, and some of his other Narnia series, from another book, Story of the Amulet written by E. Nesbit in 1906. Jadis's arrival in London closely resembles the Queen of Babylon's accidental journey to London, and the havoc she causes there. The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung... And higher than that Wall a circling row Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue, Appeerd, with gay enameld colours mixt... [30] One gate there only was, and that look'd east On th' other side... [31]Long before the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) and the stories that followed it, C. S. Lewis presents the beginning of Narnia. While not the overt theological lessons as found in the other Narnian Chronicles, it is a necessary theological point, nonetheless. Too often Christians tend to ignore basic Biblical and doctrinal Truths. This is not a recent phenomenon. It was a problem in Lewis's time as well. It is also worth noting that Lewis tended to come across as believing in so-called "theistic evolution" in his earlier writing on Christian Apologetics. He clearly moved away from that to the more Biblical view.