The Silver Chair Themes

In The Silver Chair, the truth is simple and complex, constant yet also relative to characters' perspectives (think of Golg's beliefs about Overland, for instance). In Aslan's country, the truth is...

Lewis is very good at helping us see situations from various points-of-view so that we can understand the whole picture in The Silver Chair. He helps us to see the world through the eyes of non-hum...

Nelson Mandela famously said, "The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." Puddleglum's favorite phrase in The Silver Chair—"Put a bold face on it"—is a si...

We may know Lewis best as a children's fantasy writer, but he was also a Christian apologist (a.k.a. someone who works to prove the principles of Christianity with a rational approach). This means...

From the moment that Eustace falls from the sheer cliff on Aslan's mountain in The Silver Chair, we're confronted with the idea of death. But the discussion of mortality is kind of a peculiar one b...

If you're under the age of one hundred, you probably say the word awesome a million times a day. Because we tend to overuse that word, we've really forgotten exactly what it means. There are two si...

We could easily argue that friendship is the highest virtue in Narnia, especially since loyalty, courage, charity, and faith are so closely tied to it. Friendship is also a universal form of love,...

Since the storyline starts off with young children running away from bullies at a terrible school, it's a good sign that justice (or injustice) will be a primary concern in The Silver Chair. But be...

Fantasy gives us the perfect backdrop for transformations of all kinds in The Silver Chair. We expect the magical types of morphing—like the beautiful lady into a venomous snake—but enchantment...

Sometimes good and evil are nuanced ideas. And sometimes they are pretty cut and dry, which is more or less the case with The Silver Chair. This book, after all, is pretty into Christianity (for mo...