Frank Baxter: Fisher, C.S. Lewis and Narnia

Frank Baxter

Fisher, C.S. Lewis and Narnia

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In Fisher’s work he called human beings as Homo narras, that is to mean that we communicate what it men’s to be human by telling stories. In the first story of Chronicles of Narnia, “The Magicians Nephew”, he tells of the story of creation. While this creation is that of a fictional world, I believe that C.S. Lewis is trying to convey the same sort creation that many of the world religion’s hold today.

C.S. was likely trying to get us to feel and experience (as close as possible creation). This is likely true especially if one evaluates C.S Lewis concepts of myths. Where one can only feel the experience but not think, or think or not feel, the myth for him is an attempt at bridging the gapped between these two ideas. In his work you can almost feel creation, as you read you can feel the power of Aslan's song overpower you and I could almost visualize the world being born.

A question is whether C.S. Lewis was just trying to convey the biblical story to believers, or is this a story that every human can relate too. While many may claim using terms of son of Adam and daughter of Eve, this excludes non believers, but many non-believers are familiar with this story and could perhaps imagine the lion symbolism of song as the comics forces that shaped our world and human experience.