Need to write a paper on "adult" [aka sexual] themes in the Chronicles of Narnia series?

Question

According to my teacher, aside from all the christian symbolism and bible imagery, CoN has some, um, sexual stuff too? And now I have to write a paper on it.

I'm re-reading the series, and have got nothing. There's some weirdness between Lucy and the GoatDude that I'm going to look into further, but other than that, nothing. An older friend who was in my teacher's class said, "You really got read in between the lines," and she told me something about Edmund being the White Which's slave [not servant, she told me, more like the master/slave dom/sub thing or whatever] and Caspian having a strange past? What the hell?
Am I totally missing something? I can't find any of this stuff, just biblical reference after biblical reference.

Answer 1

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Yeah, you know that's the last thing I got from that series. Teachers are human... they have weird preoccupations just like the rest of us I guess.

Answer 2

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, tells the story of four ordinary children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie.

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia tells the story of the Pevensie children's second trip to Narnia.

The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ returns Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their priggish cousin, Eustace Scrubb, to Narnia.

The Silver Chair is the second Narnia book Lewis wrote without the Pevensie children.

The Horse and His Boy is the first of the books that does not follow the previous one sequentially. The novel takes place during the reign of the Pevensies in Narnia, an era which begins and ends in the last chapter of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The Magician's Nephew brings the reader back to the very beginning of Narnia where we learn how Aslan created the world and how evil first entered it.

The Last Battle chronicles the end of the world of Narnia.

God bless you in Christ Jesus mighty name.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronic…

Answer 3

Tell your teacher that the only sexual themes in the Chronicles of Narnia are the ones that you force yourself to find and/or completely fabricate. I've never heard of any sexual themes in the series, so you'd have to push pretty hard to convince someone that they're there.

That's just silly.

Answer 4

Well, I'll tell you, Tilda Swinton looked pretty damned HOT weilding that sword as the white witch.

Answer 5

Wow...

I'm with everyone else on this one. I don't think I could find any sexual themes in those books. Except if you really want to twist things around, like with those you mentioned. I guess, maybe, you could say there was something more going on between Aslan and the Pevensies. But that just seems wrong.

Answer 6

Well, it's going to be a short paper. They are books for kids. You can read between the lines if you want, but there basically isn't any sexual stuff in them at all.

Caspian's a kid.
Edmund is a slave in the physical sense, nothing sexual about it at all.
A couple of the characters fall in love and marry, but it's very much in the Disney sense. Sexual? Nope.

Answer 7

Well to start you have the S&M scene that Aslan experiences, sure it connects to the Christian passion, but scratch a Catholic you seem to get either a submissive or dominant. You spend that much time on torture, throw in some weepy little girls, and it ain't a far stretch.

The Queen and Edmund bit, young boy seduced by the older, worldly cougar. The dwarf gets to be the traditional pimp/guard. Fits in with some of the Victorian/ courtly love ideas. If you've read a lot of the Kipling shorts you'd see the model.

Ever wonder about four brothers and sisters who all become Kings and Queens? Hints at a little incest doesn't it, maybe old fashion pharaoh style? For that matter none of them come close to marriage while being kings and Queens, despite quite a few suitors for Susan at least ( I think this was in Horse & Boy.)

You have Mr. Tumnus. the whole seduction bit, the refusal to betray her, and he is a friggin' faun. Sure they patch in all sorts of generic mythological creatures and ignore the significance of most of them, since a large number have sexual connections. You have centaurs, dwarfs, fauns, etc...

You can analyze almost any kid's book along the same lines. Find a gay English major and ask him to analyze Peter Pan for you, he'll go on for an hour.