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2. Hell's Horizon
3. City of the Snakes
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2. Zom-B Underground
3. Zom-B City
4. Zom-B Angels
5. Zom-B Baby
6. Zom-B Gladiator
7. Zom-B Mission
8. Zom-B Clans
9. Zom-B Family
10. Zom-B Bride
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Monday, December 15, 2014
Book 4 Review
5 reasons why Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia, is a
manifestation of sin
Jadis
is one truly evil witch. She is so evil in fact that she represents some of the
gravest sins ever recorded.
1.
She utters the Deplorable Word
The Deplorable Word is a malicious
curse that ends the life of all except the one who speaks it. In The Magician’s Nephew, prequel to The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, we
learn some background on Jadis. She was a native of Charn, an entirely
different world from that of ours or Narnia. She was born into power being a
sorceress and the daughter of a long line of kings and queens. But this line of
royalty had grown corrupt over the generations. It grew so corrupt that Jadis
began a civil war against her sister ending in her own defeat. Just as soon as
all seemed lost for Jadis, she utters the Deplorable Word ending the war along
with the lives of every person in Charn.
2.
She ate the apple from the forbidden tree
Another event in The Magician’s Nephew is that she eats
the fruit of everlasting life. This fruit was rumored to give immortality and
she succumbed to temptation and sin much like Eve in the story of Adam and Eve.
Something else to note is that in The
Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Jadis was rumored to be descendant of Lilith.
Lilith was Adams first wife who tried to speak the unspeakable syllables of God’s
name and paid a terrible price for it. That is very similar to Jadis and the
Deplorable Word
3.
Her only interest is in herself
Jadis spoke the deplorable word
without any regard for the lives of the innocent, only for her own gain. The
people there only existed to her as tools. They were tools to gain her more
power. Jadis will stop at nothing to better her life, even if it means ending
the lives of others. This affliction is a detriment to all except her but she
does nothing to change it. Then one day her rule is threatened by the Pevensie
children and the return of Aslan. She goes to great lengths to stop them and
retain her rule even ordering all creatures of Narnia to kill any human they
find on sight.
4.
She uses dark magic
When she becomes the queen of
Narnia, she casts it in a state of eternal winter where Christmas never comes. Then
when Edmund first discovers the vast world of Narnia he has a run in with
Jadis. She conjures up a box of enchanted Turkish delights that act as an
extremely addictive drug leaving Edmund wanting more. This is how she gets the rest of the children
to Narnia, promising more if he brought his brother and sisters to her. Another
use of her dark magic is that she can turn people to stone with her scepter.
She does this to many of the natives and leaves them outside her castle as
tortured statues, including Mr. Tumnus.
5.
She kills Aslan
Aslan could be considered Jesus in
C.S. Lewis’s fantasy world, and Jadis kills him! He is the son of the Emperor
Over-the-Sea who acts like God. He is the King of Beasts which is comparable to
Jesus being the King of Kings. He created Narnia with a song. Then after Jadis
kills him on the Stone Table, he is resurrected similar to how Jesus was killed
and resurrected 3 days later. Aslan even offered his life in place of Edmunds
to save him from Jadis, an embodiment of sin, just like Jesus died to save us
from our sins. Jadis basically killed another form of Jesus.
Jadis may be one of the most evil
villains ever to be conceived. Not only is she extremely narcissistic, psychopathic,
and powerful, but she kills the symbol of everything benevolent in Narnia. She truly
is
a manifestation of sin.
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