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I suppose the question is how far do you go down the Aslan-as-Christ road? If you see him as Christ I admit it would be hard to see him as I do (that is, like Frodo) -- but I don't see Aslan as Christ at all -- at least not as the Biblical (Primary World) Christ but as Narnia's Christ-figure.
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But I didn't say, Fordim, that Aslan
is Christ, rather that he is an allegory of Christ. I suppose that I should have called him an allegorical representation of Christ. Certainly one of Lewis's narrative aims seems to have been to explain the meaning of the Crucifixion in Christian thought by giving it a new context. Aslan is a lion, but the obvious association between the great lion and the
Agnus Dei of the primary universe seems to point in this direction.
However, I seem to recall that as the Chronicles of Narnia progress, there are several references to Aslan having other names in other worlds, and to his having allowed the children to encounter him in Narnia so that they may come to know him in their own world. The conclusion of
The Last Battle, where all worlds become one and the afterlife of 'our' world (or Lewis's version of it) merges with that of Narnia, would suggest that Lewis intended all along for Aslan and Christ to be different aspects of the same being within his fiction, but this seemed too complicated a point to make in support of my basic argument that the White Witch isn't cheated by anyone but herself.
Of course this brings me back to Davem and his dislike of the victory. The White Witch does, of course, think that she is being very clever indeed by trapping the Lion using cosmic laws that he is bound to uphold. I would say that rather than a 'fair' fight in which one party is armed and the other not, rather Aslan has agreed to stand there in boxing gloves while the Witch shoots at him. He has not told her whether her pistol is loaded or what will happen after she has taken her shot, and, deluded by her own cunning, she has not thought to ask. The parallels with medieval concepts of the Crucifixion and its place in Satan's final defeat seem obvious to me.