The Impact of Fantasy and Symbolism in C. S. Lewis’ ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’

Dr. R. Karthick Babu, Dr. V. Vishnuvardhan

Abstract


Among the contemporary readers of fantasy literature, the moral and imagination plays a pivotal role for the young learners. This current study discovers the chronology and enhancement of these fantasy stories which dominated the fictional world. The impact of fantablistc texts ascertains the children’s books and its writer’s idea in making children’s literature as popular in the fashionable ages. The writers of Children’s literature texts establish a prospect for the children to comprehend from certainty to fantasy. Moreover, this present research investigates the fantablistc writing and the techniques wherein weird settings are used in The Chronicles of Narnia. Meanwhile, C.S. Lewis employs strange world to the reliable contradictory stages, one to flee from the existing world to the further, which brings the harms that give alarm to the contemporary world.


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fantasy, techniques, supernumerary world, children’s literature, chronicles, Narnia.

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