by David » September 21st, 2006, 12:32 pm
[quote="Messenger_of_Eden"]Well I can see a correlation, though perhaps not intended by Jack. The poem at the Gate of Aslan's Garden is a warning that if we seek the fruit for another's good, then we are welcome, so long as we come by the gate; indeed service to one in need is invitation by Aslan to take the fruit, and a guest invited enters by the front door. quote]
I don't know how directly Jack intended it to be correlated to the Bible. But . . . I remember when Digory goes in, Jadis is there and has eat an apple. She does live forever, but she is a curse not a blessing. This reminds me of the Parable of the Good Shepherd. Jadis came in by "another way," and is not the shepherd, doesn't care for the sheep . . . there are lots of allegorical suggestions here. Maybe Lewis is not alluding to them directly but he is at least evoking them.
The way, the weather, the terrain, the discipline, the leadership. --Sun Tzu