beaststhattalk reblogged
I can't believe I never noticed how much The Silver Chair was about death. The story is book-ended by visits to Aslan's country. Jill and Eustace are charged with finding a lost, presumed dead prince who was trying to avenge his dead mother. The children narrowly escape death in the giants' castle, and then they find the prince by descending to an underworld with all the imagery of Hades. The dark, still unreality of this pagan underworld is contrasted with the bright, living, better-than-reality of Aslan's country. They rescue the prince from Hades and follow his father into his rebirth in Aslan's country. I don't have anything intelligent to say about it; I'm just surprised it took me this long to notice.