Re: No sex in Narnia - why?

Date: Monday, 7 July 2008 08:13 am (UTC)
Hmmm, see what you mean. Though did Narnia go to rack & ruin? The White Witch didn't return. Calormene didn't invade, nor did Archenland nor the giants from the north - I assume anyhow! The Telmarines turned up generations later.

Someone asked, in one of the later books, why Narnia was always in such messes. To which the reply was that it wasn't, sometimes it went on perfectly happily for hundreds of years at a time (& there was hardly anything to write in the history books - which shows a certain view of recorded history!).

But that's all to do with the internal narrative of Narnia. While you, & others, may find it unsatisfactory, Lewis was using the stories to teach certain values to his (child) readers. Because his readers had to live in this world all the time. & Lewis was very much a teacher (in a good sense).

Of course the children had to return to their own world, that particular story had to end somewhere. It's better than the usual fairy-tale ending of, "The married & lived happily ever after", or I think so anyway.
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