Abstract

Clive Staples Lewis, is one of the outstanding British novelists and highly influential Christian writers in the twentieth century. His most popular work--The Chronicles of Narnia, regarded as a classical children’s literature, contains series of seven fantasy novels. Studies on C.S. Lewis and Narnia are undertaken from diversified perspectives in different approaches ranging from historical biography, moral-philosophy, theology to formalism, psychological analysis, mythology and archetype, feminism and cultural studies. And this tentative study proposes to unveil The Chronicles by demonstrating the dispositions of the characters(The lion, the witch and four children) in the text itself compared with the description of nature in Bible concretely, and analyzing the relationship between humanity(based on the “the Law of Human Nature” and “three parts of morality” proposed by Lewis), divinity, the evilness of Satan, to explore Christian thoughts--“beyond nature” in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Key words: The Chronicles of Narnia：The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Bible ; humanity; divinity; the evilness of Satan; beyond nature

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

Chapter1 Introduction. 1

1.1 Background and Significance1

1.2 Litetature Review2

Chapter2 Humanity, Divinity, the Evilness of Satan and Their Relationships5

       2.1 Four children--Humanity.5

    2.1.1 the Law of Human Nature.5

    2.1.2 The Another Law of Human.6

2.2 The Lion--Divinity and the Witch--The Evilness of Satan8

2.3The Relationship between the Three above9

Chapter3 The Reflection of Christian Doctrines--Beyond Personality10

3.1 Making and Begetting12

      3.1.1 Making: the Reason Why Humanity Involves Features of Divinity12

    3.1.2 Begetting: the Purpose of God’s creation .13

3.2 Approach to “Beyond Nature” and its process.13

Chapter4 The Influence of Christianity on Lewis .14

4.1 His Religious Experience.14  

4.2 The Influence on His Work14

Chapter 5 Conclusion .15 

Reference .16