![]() ![]() He is visible for a moment on a hillside to bring Caspian and Edmund to their senses after their greed is awakened on Goldwater Island.He transforms Eustace from a dragon back into a boy.For more details on the religious symbolism Lewis uses to develop Aslan as a Christ figure, see the " Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory" section.Īslan makes six appearances in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, usually just to one person or a very small group of people: At the very end of the book, Aslan comes close to explaining who he is and how he relates to Christianity, telling Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace that in their world he has "another name" which they will have to learn (16.76). In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Aslan's Christ-like nature comes out in his different appearances – as Eustace's baptizer and redeemer, as a mystical white Lamb, and as an albatross that looks for a moment like a cross. If you've read the first two Narnia chronicles, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, you already know that Aslan, the great Lion who rules Narnia from beyond the sea, is a figurative stand-in for Jesus Christ. ![]()
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