Fantasy-elementer i 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe'

Every single person has a good and evil side in them. We are all capable of doing good and bad things, but sometimes people want more and they will do every single thing they can to get it. But the truth is, there is no good and evil. There is only power and those people who are weak who seek it. “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” is a fantasy novel written by C.S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. The fantasy novel is about four siblings who are sent to live with their uncle on the countryside. On a rainy day, while the children decide to explore the house, the youngest sibling finds an enormous wardrobe, which leads her to a magical land called Narnia. The central theme is Good vs. Evil. This essay will focus on how “the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” confirms to the theories of the elements of fantasy.

Fantasy stories take place in different settings, typically a secondary world where it is not unlikely to meet talking animals, dwarves and any other magical creatures. This secondary world would be the only setting in the story. We also have a parallel world in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, where we have the real world. This could be the professor’s house, where the children are in the beginning of the story and the fantasy world would be Narnia, where we stumble across imaginary beings – like the faun and witchcraft – like the white witch, Jadis, magic and all kinds of supernatural elements – like the spell, which froze Narnia in a winter that lasted 100 years. You will often see a lot of elements from the Middle Ages in a secondary world. There has to be a portal to travel to the secondary world. It could be a spell, a door or in this care, a big wardrobe. Whenever there is a secondary world, the time in the normal world is stopped. “It was the same day and the same hour of the day on which they had all gone into the wardrobe to hide”. This sentence from “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” tells us readers that the time stopped once the characters stepped into the secondary world, which is very common.