ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Turkish Delight, Mere Christianity, Sparknotes
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Lewis doesn t write with the puritan framework of children. He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying it may seem, i have to accept the view that he was and is god. (lewis, Edmund s faults - demonstrates many of the deadly sins. The british colonialist fear that people will be taken away by foreign countries and lose their british identities: puritan discourse. Jealousy: jealous of his brother wanted his brother beneath him when edmund became king. Always paranoid that his siblings are picking on him/better than him: still, this is kind of justified there is the idea of first born inheritance in. Edmund is not actually innately evil he is a social/environmental child = affected by the world around him. I think it s a nice beaver, said lucy. Yes, but how do we know, said edmund. Breakdown between edmund s thoughts and the narration.
