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Originally Posted by Gwathagor
I don't understand what you mean at all.
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I suppose you could put that down to my being one of the folks who
Squatter anathamatised in his post. I wasn't aware that at the Barrow Downs we stigmatise people for holding opinions contrary to our own however much we delight in excoriating the opinions.
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Originally Posted by davem
I don't think Lewis can be exempted from criticism - though I take Squatter's point that what Lewis is attacking is Susan's materialism, rather than her sexual maturity. For one thing, Lewis chose one of his female characters to be cast into outer darkness rather than one of the males.
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The problem with any kind of allegorical work like
Narnia is that their images, symbols, events, plot lines get all tied in with the major tendencies of the bit being allegorized.