If Narnia is a allegory, than Peter, by his very name, would be original high king, the pope. If the man chosen to lead the faithful chose apostacy, the books would have become darker indeed.
As said in the essay, Susan was the likley choice because she was more firmly placed, spiitually, in earthly matters and baser instincts even wen she was young and even, as written in The Horse and his Boy, as a queen.
Perhaps (though I doubt this) Susan was marked for apostacy from the begining, hense her subtle behavior in Lion, Horse and Caspian (but that may be giving Lewis too much credit)
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Date: 2006-01-07 04:34 am (UTC)As said in the essay, Susan was the likley choice because she was more firmly placed, spiitually, in earthly matters and baser instincts even wen she was young and even, as written in The Horse and his Boy, as a queen.
Perhaps (though I doubt this) Susan was marked for apostacy from the begining, hense her subtle behavior in Lion, Horse and Caspian (but that may be giving Lewis too much credit)