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The Creator Aslan literally sings Narnia into existence, His song causing stars to appear, the stars themselves soon joining in the song. The world the travelers find themselves in is actually the about-to-be-born Narnia, and Lewis “conjures up a breath-takingly beautiful creation” story. (This “Deplorable Word” references the atomic bomb, with Lewis making his solitary political statement in the chronicles, Aslan warning that the coming century on earth will be filled with treachery, Deplorable Words and Jadis-like tyranny). Further, it was somehow the pride of Jadis’ sister that caused her to speak the “Deplorable Word” and so destroy Charn. Both feel completely justified in their self-absorbed actions, and Jadis even argues that the people of Charn belong to her to do as she wished. Both are Machiavellian, and portraits of Nietzsche’s Superman (Ubermann): Jadis with Satanic/Nietzschean will to power, and Andrew with a Faustian lust for knowledge, “both boundless and unquenchable.” Jadis and Andrew both consider themselves above bourgeois standards of good and evil, caring nothing for those they would use to achieve their ends. But first, it will pay to consider more closely the characters of Queen Jadis and Uncle Andrew, powerful archetypes for Lewis’s commentary. But the rings carry them not back to Charn, but to a new world. Polly and Digory use the rings to jar Jadis away, but they also accidentally drag along Uncle Andrew, a cabby (Frank) and his horse (Strawberry). While in London, Jadis turns Uncle Andrew into her apprentice-slave as she plots to subdue the city. As the terrified children seek to escape, Jadis grabs onto them, following them through the pondey portals first back into the wood, then back to London. When Digory impulsively rings the bell, the statue comes to life: it is Queen Jardis, who caused the destruction of Charn. They find a hall filled with statues, and near the statue of a beautiful but cruel-looking woman, a bell with the inscription that tempts them to ring it. The children jump into one of the ponds, landing in Charn, a dead world. They are transported to a way station between worlds, magical woods dotted with ponds, each a doorway to a different world. Andrew is curious about these worlds, but in his cowardice to go himself, tricks Polly and Digory into grabbing the rings. A magician, Andrew has a set of yellow and green rings which will transport, when touched, a person to another world.
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This story of the creation of Narnia actually precedes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as it begins in the early 1900s when two children, Digory and Polly, stumble on the hidden room of Digory’s uncle Andrew.