A SYMBOLIC CHARACTER OF ASLAN THE GREAT LION IN C.S. LEWIS’ NOVEL THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE

Abstract

The problem of this research is the symbolic of character of Aslan the Great Lion and the reason why the author chose the character of Aslan the Great Lion as the symbol. The aims of this research are to describe the symbol of character of Aslan the Great Lion and to describe why the author chose the character of Aslan the Great Lion as the symbol. The writer used the qualitative descriptive method and The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as the source of data. From the analysis, it can be concluded that Aslan the Great Lion were Jesus in Fur and the reason why the author chose the character of Aslan the Great Lion as the symbol were connected to C.S. Lewis’ past. He was conversion from atheism to Christianity. He had begun to lose his faith at the age of 13, partly due to his deeprooted pessimism, and partly due to pantheistic experiences and interest in Wagner's music. After reading such writers as Chesterfield, Bergson, George MacDonald, and George Herbert, and abandoning his youthful snobbery, he became a deist in 1929, and later he was associated with such neo-Christians as T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dorothy L. Sayers, and J.R.R. Tolkien, who was a Catholic; some other teachers. After that, he held Christianity and wrote The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as the reflect of his faithful to Jesus Christ