ENGL 2810Y Lecture 4: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 4
5 Feb 2019
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Resurrected aslan as young animal, not genteel human: "catch me if you can!" he says, and then begins a great romp with the two girls: "then he made a leap high over their heads and landed on the other side of the table. Laughing, though she didn"t know why, lucy scrambled over it to reach him. It was such a romp as no one has ever had except in narnia; and whether it was more like playing with a thunderstorm or playing with a kitten lucy could never make up her mind. (179) Places," 11: narnia as initiation, growing up inside secondary world (essential and irrelevant) The return: leaving narnia separation, liminality, tests, return the hunt for the white stag. And next moment they all came tumbling out of a wardrobe door into the empty room, and they were no longer kings and queens in their hunting array but just peter, susan, edmund and lucy in their old clothes.
