Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Comparison of Oz vs. Narnia

I think that the worldviews of The Wizard of Oz and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are definately contrasting. In the LWW, Aslan is considered the Christ figure. He even goes through a "resurrection" after being sacraficed for the good of his country. I'm pretty sure you can't get any more Christ-like than that! But in the Wizard of Oz, the "god" that they were searching for turned out to be just like the rest of them. I think that LWW presents a Christian worldview, with the classic "good vs. evil" concept. The witch represents the wrong, and Aslan represents the right. This clashes with the story of Oz, where the ideas of good and evil are all combined into a huge mess.

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