CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

(AUTHOR) C. S. Lewis
 7 BOOKS
 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - 1950
 Prince Caspian - 1951
 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 1952
 The Silver Chair – 1953
 The Horse and His Boy - 1954
 The Magician’s Nephew - 1955
 The Last Battle - 1956
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
 During the World War II bombing of London, four English siblings are sent to a
country house where they will be safe. One day Lucy finds a wardrobe that
transport her to a magical world called Narnia. After coming back, she soon
returns to Narnia with her brothers, Peters and Edmund, her sister, Susan. They
join the magical lion, Aslan, in the fight against the evil White Witch, Jadis.
 Themes

Lewis discusses the themes of;

• good and evil
• betrayal and forgiveness
• courage
• transformation
• natural world and the magic.
 Characters

• Aslan the Lion

• Lucy Pevensie
• Edmund Pevensie
• Susan Pevensie
• Peter Pevensie
• Jadis the Witch
 PRINCE CASPIAN

Prince Caspian features a “return to Narnia” by the four Pevensie children of the first novel,
about 1300 years later in Narnia. It is the only book of The Chronicles with men dominating
Narnia. The talking animals and mythical beings are oppressed, and some may be endangered.

Characters
• Prince Caspian
Theme
• Pevensie siblings • Courage
• Chivalry
• Aslan the lion
 THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER
Visiting their young cousin,
Eustace, Lucy and Edmund come
across a painting of a majestic ship
called the Dawn Treader. Suddenly,
the painting comes to life and
draws the youths into Narnia,
where they meet their old friend,
King Caspian. Caspian is o quest to
find the seven lost Lords of Telmar,
whose swords will save Narnia
from evil green mist that enslaves
men’s minds and bodies.
Characters
• Aslan the lion
• Pevensie siblings
• Caspian
Theme
Dramatizes the eternal conflict between
free and free will, which is of particular
relevance in Christian theology. Many
characters have followed them from birth,
while others show knowledge of the future
or accept that certain events are fated or
certain to occur.
The silver chair tells the story of Eustace Scrubb’s second
trip to Narnia, accompanied by hid friend Jill Pole, who THE SILVER
had never been there before. The two of them were CHAIR
running from bullies at their school when they entered a
door to hide, and found themselves in Aslan’s country
next to a great cliff. Aslan sent them to Narnia to find the
Characters
Kidnapped Prince Rilian, son of Caspian X. • Prince Caspian
Theme • Puddlegum
• Jill Pole
Courage - Puddlegum in particular shows
• Eustace Scrubb
himself to be very brave and puts his own
• Aslan the lion
life in danger a number of times for the
• Rilian
greater good of the group.
• Lady of the Green Kirtle
 THE HORSE AND HIS BOY

The story revolves around a young Calormene by the name of Shasta.

Shasta and his father, Arsheesh, live life as fishermen. However, one day
Shasta discovers that Arsheesh is not his real father and intends to sell
him to a cruel nobleman by the name of Anradin.
At the end of the novel, Shasta discovers that He is actually Prince Cor,
the long lost elder twin of Prince Corin of Archenland.
Characters
 Shasta
 Bree the Horse
 Aslan the Lion
 Arsheesh

Theme
The battles are shown as both internal battles within each character to do the
right thing, and also as an actual battle pitting the evil Rabadash against the
forces of good that are Narnia and Archenland.
 Two neighborhood children meet and become friends during a summer in
London in the late 1800s. The two children Digory Kirke and Polly
Plummer, play together in the attic connecting the row of houses where
they live. One day while attempting to enter an abandoned house through
the attic, the two children take a wrong turn and surprise Digory’s
THE mysterious uncle, who spends a great deal of time locked in his study.
MAGICIAN’S Characters
NEPHEW • Digory Kirke

• Polly Plummer

• Andrew Ketterly

• Jadis the White Witch

• Aslan the lion

 Theme
Magic is obviously a major theme in the magician’s Nephew, magic isn’t a singular
force. The story’s two prominent forms of magic can be summed up as destructive-
motivated by the quest for power, even at the expense of other human beings-and
creative, which is motivated by the desire for other beings to flourish.
 THE LAST BATTLE
The story of The Last Battle begins with a donkey, Puzzle, and an old ape, shift, sitting on the
banks of Caldron Pool on the Western Edge of Narnia beyond Lantern Waste. Puzzle has been
convinced that he is not a clever donkey and that Shift should make all decisions in every matter
of life.
Characters
• Aslan the lion
• Tirian
• Eustace Scrubb
• Peter Pevensie
• Jill Pole
 Theme
The importance of loyalty is one of the themes in the book and ultimately those who are
loyal are rewarded, and their loyalty values. It is notable that the loyalty of one dwarf
outweighs the treachery of every one.