Is he picking on her because she's female - or just because she's easy? (Easy in the sense of unchallenging, I mean, not sexually available.)
I guess it's that I think Lewis chose Susan to defect because her reasons for defection are the least challenging. I have this nebulous idea that since Peter is the eldest of the children, because his gifts from Aslan were the sword and the shield and he killed Fenris Ulf with them, and because he was the senior of the High Kings of Narnia, Peter is also to a small degree a Christ-figure. Thus, while Susan can just drift away from Narnia because she allows worldly concerns to dominate her thoughts, for Peter to no longer be a friend of Narnia would more strongly imply a deliberate apostacy, a calculated choice to turn his back on Aslan and what he learned in Narnia.
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Date: 2005-08-30 10:48 pm (UTC)I guess it's that I think Lewis chose Susan to defect because her reasons for defection are the least challenging.
I have this nebulous idea that since Peter is the eldest of the children, because his gifts from Aslan were the sword and the shield and he killed Fenris Ulf with them, and because he was the senior of the High Kings of Narnia, Peter is also to a small degree a Christ-figure. Thus, while Susan can just drift away from Narnia because she allows worldly concerns to dominate her thoughts, for Peter to no longer be a friend of Narnia would more strongly imply a deliberate apostacy, a calculated choice to turn his back on Aslan and what he learned in Narnia.