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#24 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The C.S. Lewis podcast

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Is This a Product of Lewis's Time?

I think we just, again, have to remember lewis was in a particular historical context. And back in belfast, his family had servants, and they would have servants in college. In many ways, what lewis is really talking about here is not necessarily a status symbol, just the reality of middle class life for many people at that time. He's simply saying, this is my world. Welcome to this story. Happens in this world. But lucy very often is the person who sees things, or perhaps, if i'm put like this, and brings things out. I suppose we see that of lucy being a kind of favourite character in the

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