The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Essay & Project Ideas

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. C. S. Lewis has said that he visualized pictures of his stories and that he wrote about what he saw. How important are the descriptions of scenes—the pictures—to the success of The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe?

2. Some critics classify The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as modern fantasy, like J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, in which the author creates a world primarily from his own imagination.

Others classify the novel as a moralistic fairy tale, like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Snow White," because it seems to teach a moral lesson and borrows characters, such as unicorns, from traditional folktales. How would you classify the novel? Why?

3. Some people complain that the novel is too violent and that having Peter and Edmund actually participate in battles gives readers bad impressions about how they should solve the world's problems....
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