![]() (I’ve also never found Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be a dark book for similar reasons.) Rabadash feels more real to me, but he feels real in the sense that he’s a real horrible person, so I’m happy to see him humiliated. I think the reason I’m not disturbed by the boys and the man being turned into pigs and a tree is that I never think about them as real people There are some characters whom I think of as real people, but those ones always struck me as unlikeable caricatures who exist to be satisfyingly punished and I take them as such. Persuade me that this causes an ordinary child any kind or degree ofįear beyond what it wants, and needs, to feel. Let villains be soundly killed at the end of the book. Kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and With the human race against the modern reformer. Nor do most of usįind that violence and bloodshed, in a story, produce any hauntingĭread in the minds of children. Otherwise youĪre making their destiny not brighter but darker. Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let themĪt least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. ![]() So educating a generation which is born to the Ogpu and the atomicīomb. ![]() “There is something ludicrous in the idea of This quote from “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” about Lewis talking about “scary” children’s stories is probably relevant: At the same time, Lewis didn’t shy away from going dark when the story called for it, as the examples in this podcast attest. Dark moments for the sake of shock value, or especially to make the Narnia stories more “adult”, is very un-Narnian imo. Tirian murdering the Calormenes: The act of murder is made darker because it’s committed by a “good guy” + Jewel’s line: “We have lived too long”Īs for how dark I want the movies to be… they need to strike a balance. The Sorcery and Sudden Vengeance: Nikabrik’s despair (he doesn’t think Aslan is coming to help them) + Violence that results in a former ally deadģ. The Giant’s Cookbook: The giants violence towards and the eating of the innocent stag + Puddleglum’s near despairĢ. ![]() ![]() When I think dark, I tend to think of something that either deals with violence or death (though a special, shocking kind of violence not action violence like fighting stormtroopers) or with despair.ġ. The word “dark” does seem to be in the eye of the beholder, so it doesn’t seem that useful of a term. ![]()
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