"Modern ideas" addressed through Eustace and his journal
Posted: Feb 11, 2012 1:58 pm
If this needs to go in the general Narnian discussion group section, just tell me and I can post it there
I haven't seen any open posts discussing all the "modern ideas" depicted in Eustace and his journal entries. (Before he was dragoned, of course)
This is not to say I agree with all of Lewis' depiction of it (vegetarianism, for example) but I thought some of them were worth much further thought. Examples:
Eustace's sense of entitlement "Let me go. Let me go back. I don't like it." when he first comes aboard, (and later about the water rations), the percieved unfairness of Caspian giving his room to Lucy because she's a girl "that sort of thing is really lowering girls," and how he is convinced that his view is always correct.
As an author, I find it fascinating to see how ideas are addressed without writing essays on them in the story , and wondered what ideas everyone else has.
I'd be happy to post more, but would like to hear other folks' ideas first
I haven't seen any open posts discussing all the "modern ideas" depicted in Eustace and his journal entries. (Before he was dragoned, of course)
This is not to say I agree with all of Lewis' depiction of it (vegetarianism, for example) but I thought some of them were worth much further thought. Examples:
Eustace's sense of entitlement "Let me go. Let me go back. I don't like it." when he first comes aboard, (and later about the water rations), the percieved unfairness of Caspian giving his room to Lucy because she's a girl "that sort of thing is really lowering girls," and how he is convinced that his view is always correct.
As an author, I find it fascinating to see how ideas are addressed without writing essays on them in the story , and wondered what ideas everyone else has.
I'd be happy to post more, but would like to hear other folks' ideas first