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Narnia Chronicles
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia
Label: Deconstruction (Narnia)
Book 1: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
06-21-2011 - Chapter 1: The Stifling Role of Child-Mother
07-05-2011 - Chapter 2: World-Building Your Allegory
07-19-2011 - Chapter 3: Identifying with the Aggressor
08-02-2011 - Chapter 4: By The Power of Jell-O!
08-16-2011 - Chapter 5: Syllogisms that Demand a Verdict
08-30-2011 - Chapter 6: A Question of Legitimacy
09-13-2011 - Chapter 7: The Clean and Tidy Poor
09-27-2011 - Chapter 8: Oral Traditions of the Church of Aslan
10-11-2011 - Chapter 9: Moral Event Horizons
10-25-2011 - Chapter 10: Gender Essentialism and Female War Veterans
11-08-2011 - Chapter 11: Good Kings, Bad Laws
11-22-2011 - Chapter 12: Endangering Girls for Fun and Profit!
12-06-2011 - Chapter 13: The Emperor's Hangwoman
12-20-2011 - Chapter 14: The Passion of Aslan
01-03-2012 - Chapter 15: The Resurrection of Aslan
01-17-2012 - Chapter 16: Playful Animals, Platonic Allies
01-31-2012 - Chapter 17: The Arthurian Court
02-14-2012 - An Interlude
04-10-2012 - Lion-Witch-Wardrobe, BBC-Style
04-17-2012 - Lion-Witch-Wardrobe, All-American Rendition
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Book 2: Prince Caspian
05-01-2012 - Chapter 1: Susan, Problems of
05-08-2012 - Chapter 2: If Only They'd Planted Gingko Biloba
05-15-2012 - Chapter 3: Where Angels Fear To Tread
05-22-2012 - Chapter 4: Savior White, Savior Bright
05-29-2012 - Chapter 5: Good Hair, Bad Hair
06-05-2012 - Chapter 6: The Privilege of Omniscience
06-12-2012 - Chapter 7: Essential Natures and the Narnian Hierarchy
06-26-2012 - Chapter 8: Lashing Out At Little People
07-03-2012 - Chapter 9: Counterpoint the Surrealism of the Underlying Metaphor
07-17-2012 - Chapter 10: Jerkass Gods
07-31-2012 - Chapter 11: When the Narrative is Stacked Against You
08-28-2012 - Chapter 11: Wild Gods
09-04-2012 - Chapter 12: Nikabrikian Heresies
09-11-2012 - Chapter 13: Playing for the Patriarchy
10-10-2012 - Chapter 14: Honor Before Efficacy
10-24-2012 - Chapter 14: Narnian Girls, Telmarine Boys
10-29-2012 - Chapter 15: Veterans of Foreign Narnia
11-05-2012 - Chapter 15: Going to Texas
11-12-2012 - Prince Caspian, BBC-ilicious
11-19-2012 - Prince Caspian, Disney-ified
Book 3: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
11-26-2012 - Chapter 1: The Problem of Eustace
12-03-2012 - Chapter 1: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Author
12-17-2012 - Chapter 1: Showing and Telling
12-24-2012 - Chapter 1: Alberta vs. Arthur
12-31-2012 - Chapter 1: Bully For You
01-14-2013 - Chapter 2: Talking Animals Should Be Seen, Not Heard
01-21-2013 - Chapter 2: Serving at the Pleasure of the King
01-29-2013 - Chapter 2: The Pleasure of Punishment
02-05-2013 - Chapter 3: People as Possessions
02-26-2013 - Chapter 3: Bad Metaphors, Bad Masters
03-12-2013 - Chapter 4: The Dirty Bourgeois
03-26-2013 - Chapter 4: Cabbages or Books or Instruments
04-09-2013 - Chapter 4: The First and The Last
04-16-2013 - Chapter 5: Ideals and Reality
04-23-2013 - Chapter 5: Thirsty and Alone
04-30-2013 - Chapter 5: Fiends in Human Form
05-07-2013 - Chapter 6: Sad Old Dragons
05-14-2013 - Chapter 6: Moving to Calormen
05-21-2013 - Chapter 6: Native Occupiers, White Discoverers
06-04-2013 - Chapter 6: Privilege and Passive Voice
06-11-2013 - Chapter 6: Swearing Friendship with Invaders
06-18-2013 - Chapter 7: Marginalized Characters vs. Marginalized People
06-25-2013 - Chapter 7: The Seven Cloned Lords
07-09-2013 - Chapter 7: Silenced Stories and Child Activists
07-23-2013 - Chapter 7: Books and Their Covers
07-30-2013 - Chapter 7: Living With Sadness
08-06-2013 - Chapter 7: God's Will For Thee, But Not For Me
08-13-2013 - Chapter 7: Love the Sinner, Period
08-29-2013 - Chapter 7: Non-Consensual Conversions
09-19-2013 - Chapter 7: Lord Octesian's Last Will and Testament
10-08-2013 - Chapter 8: The Home Shopping
10-15-2013 - Chapter 8: For Want of a Nail... Nothing Changed In The Slightest
10-22-2013 - Chapter 8: That Golden Glimmer At The Slightest Touch
11-05-2013 - Chapter 9: Ode to the Dufflepuds
11-12-2013 - Chapter 9: First Mate Rhince & The QUILTBAG Sailors
11-26-2013 - Chapter 9: Ebenezer Scrooge Will Free You From Slavery If He Really Must
12-03-2013 - Chapter 10: Invisible Crimes Against The Tediously Silly
12-31-2013 - Chapter 10: Intent is Magic
01-16-2014 - Chapter 10: Painted Princesses
01-30-2014 - Chapter 10: Lucy in the Sky with Inconsistent Characterization
02-06-2014 - Chapter 11: Pass The Magic Peas, Please
02-17-2014 - Chapter 11: And The Horse You Rode In On
02-25-2014 - Chapter 12: A Question of Honor
03-04-2014 - Chapter 12: Good People, Harmful Actions
03-11-2014 - Chapter 12: Ten Thousand Triggers
03-18-2014 - Chapter 13: Either English or Empty
03-31-2014 - Chapter 13: Justice, Mercy and Humility
04-08-2014 - Chapter 13: Knowledge and Belief
04-15-2014 - Chapter 14: Only One Right Answer
04-22-2014 - Chapter 15: Not At All Interested
05-13-2014 - Chapter 15: Sweet Sea Waters
05-21-2014 - Chapter 16: Gods and Lovers
05-29-2014 - Chapter 16: You Will Never Come Back
06-02-2014 - Platonic Pwning
06-04-2014 - Meet the Dufflepuds -- Oh Look A Puppy!
06-06-2014 - Here Be Dragons
06-17-2014 - Cannibalism Is Hilarious
06-21-2014 - Consenting to Leave
Book 4: The Silver Chair
01-09-2015 - Chapter 1: Cliffs and Consent
01-11-2015 - Chapter 2: Swallowing Up Girls
01-13-2015 - Chapter 3: Far Worse Than You Think
01-16-2015 - Chapter 4: The Parliament of a Parliament
01-20-2015 - Chapter 5: Tea in Tins
02-01-2015 - Chapter 6: Gentle Giants and Strange Women
02-10-2015 - Chapter 7: Bother The Signs
03-03-2015 - Chapter 8: Taking The Blame
03-17-2015 - Chapter 9: Boys Do It Better Than Marsh-Wiggles
03-31-2015 - Chapter 10: They Might Be Enemies
04-16-2015 - Chapter 11: But Soft, A Padding Wooly Tread
05-12-2015 - Chapter 12: There Is No
06-02-2015 - Chapter 13: Don't Cry Out (Or You Will Be Hurt)
06-16-2015 - Chapter 14: His Name Was Golg
07-11-2015 - Chapter 15: There Was A Reward Offered
08-01-2015 - Chapter 16: Jill Plied Her Crop on the Girls
Book 5: The Horse and His Boy
09-05-2015 - Chapter 1: Welcome to Calormen
09-22-2015 - Chapter 1: Cruel and Ancient People
10-20-2015 - Chapter 1: Leaving the Donkey Behind
11-05-2015 - Chapter 2: A Fine Race for Their Lives
12-01-2015 - Chapter 2: The Horse and Her Girl, a Tale of Princess Aravis
12-22-2015 - Chapter 3: I Did Not Do Any of These Things for the Sake of Pleasing You
01-07-2016 - Chapter 4: Shasta Thought All This Very Silly
01-26-2016 - Chapter 4: The White Barbarian King
02-13-2016 - Chapter 4: Nice Faces, Nice Voices, and The Very Nicest Kind of Grown-Ups
03-03-2016 - Chapter 5: Wife or Slave
03-17-2016 - Chapter 5: Rearranging the Bookends
04-07-2016 - Chapter 5: Noble and Free-Born People
04-26-2016 - Chapter 6: Passing Time
05-17-2016 - Chapter 7: What More Do You Want?
07-03-2016 - Chapter 7: Lasaraleen's Silliness
08-04-2016 - Chapter 8: Things Commonly Reported
08-25-2016 - Chapter 8: Be Swift, Secret, and Fortunate
10-06-2016 - Chapter 8: Ode to the Third Cook
10-11-2016 - Chapter 9: Her Friend's Affectionate Embraces
11-01-2016 - Chapter 9: What's the Terrible Hurry?
11-04-2016 - Chapter 10: The Scourging of Aravis
11-22-2016 - Chapter 10: All Her Troubles
12-13-2016 - Chapter 11: Beginning to Enjoy Himself
01-10-2017 - Chapter 11: I Need a Hero
01-19-2017 - Chapter 11: It Was I
02-21-2017 - Chapter 12: Someone Ought To Take The Ring
03-10-2017 - Chapter 12: Running to Cair Paravel
03-30-2017 - Chapter 12: As Like As Two Twins
03-31-2017 - Chapter 14: Prophetic Interlude
05-09-2017 - Chapter 13: Truffaut Was Right
05-16-2017 - Chapter 13: Horses and Horses
06-20-2017 - Chapter 13: The Trumpet At Last
07-11-2017 - Chapter 13: Narrated For Your Convenience
07-31-2017 - Chapter 13: The Humiliation of Rabadash
09-09-2017 - Chapter 14: Aslan's Moral Event Horizon
10-02-2017 - Chapter 14: The Horse and His Boy
11-17-2017 - Chapter 15: Doggy Hands and Cut Throats
12-30-2017 - Chapter 15: Foolish Rabadash
01-28-2018 - Chapter 15: Rabadash the Ass
02-09-2018 - Chapter 15: Calormene Poetry
03-12-2018 - Chapter 15: Reformed Characters
05-31-2018 - Names and Reader Research
Book 6: The Magician's Nephew
07-02-2018 - Chapter 1: The Magician's Neighbor
09-07-2018 - Chapter 2: Maximum Villainy for Minimum Efficiency
11-09-2018 - Chapter 3: Digory Went On
12-16-2018 - Chapter 4: Charnian Architecture
03-14-2019 - Chapter 4: Fierce Women and Cruel Lions
04-08-2019 - Chapter 4: He Grabbed Her Wrist
05-24-2019 - Chapter 5: The Red Wedding
07-20-2019 - Chapter 5: High and Lonely Destiny
11-29-2019 - Chapter 6: In Which Little Happens
01-19-2021 - Chapter 6: Those Who Take and Never Give
02-04-2021 - Chapter 7: Waiting For A Hero
01-19-2021 - Chapter 7: The London Job
06-28-2021 - Chapter 8: Screaming at Scum
Other Narnia Posts
11-11-2012 - A Brief Observation
12-03-2012 - Character Context
12-30-2012 - Why I Say Allegory
05-06-2013 - James Loewen on Seemingly "Natural" Domination
05-28-2013 - Loving Her Less
11-11-2013 - Song of the Hertasi Water Killers
Note: Last updated 12/02/2021.
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This is the deconstruction index post for the Narnia deconstructions. It will be updated on a semi-monthly basis. It has been back-posted to the mists of time when the blog first began to eschew clutter and maintain tidiness. It can be reached from the updated Deconstruction Index page at the top of the blog as well as the first post in the deconstruction series of the appropriate label.
Please note the following Frequently Asked Questions. (Others are welcome to add to these as needed.)
Frequently Asked Questions
Lewis Trilemma. In Chapter 5, the Professor applies a classic argument, the Liar, Lunatic, Lord argument, in an attempt to logically prove the existence of Narnia.
Platonic Forms. In Chapter 8, Mr. Beaver professes a belief that the essential goodness of a creature is tied into how closely that creature resembles their Platonic form.
Problem of Susan. In The Last Battle, Susan is referenced as "no longer a friend of Narnia". This reference has historically been contentious. More here and here.
World-Building Trees. Commenter Anna noted that a clear and coherent solution to a number of Narnia world-building questions can be found in the longevity of sentient trees.
Please note that the deconstruction for Book 1 is complete. The "deconstruction download" links above provide off-line reading of the entire deconstruction from start-to-finish.
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