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Essay / Allegory in The Chronicles of Narnia - 1854
Once out of the water, Eustace realizes that he is no longer a dragon; it's a boy again. Eustace was "born again" through a process of self-confrontation and could not have achieved this without Aslan's help. In the biblical text, the events of the baptisms of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth celebrated in the New Testament are similar to the "baptism" of Eustace in The Odyssey of the Dawn Treader. By showing the correlations between The Chronicles of Narnia and Christianity, CS Lewis's goal in writing The Chronicles of Narnia was to show that there is truth in a myth. In CS Lewis' Myth Become Fact, he explains how “While we love man, endure pain, enjoy pleasure, we do not intellectually apprehend pleasure, pain, or personality. On the other hand, when we begin to do so, concrete realities fall to the level of simple examples or examples…. The myth of this tragic dilemma is the partial solution. By enjoying a great myth, we come closest to the concrete experience of what otherwise can only be understood as an abstraction. (CS Lewis, Myth Come True, 65-66). This helps explain why and how myth contains truth and why CS Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia. Be