38 tradition, was given the “keys to the kingdom of heaven“ and Peter Pevensie shut
the door, locking it with a golden key, sealing the destroyed Narnia after the judgment in The Last Battle.
Table 4.2.1 Similarity of Characteristics between Peter Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Apostle Peter in Christian Belief
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Christian Belief
Peter Pevensie
• Has received a given name by
Aslan; Sir Peter Wolf’s-bane •
The leader or the first-among-equal
• Believe in Aslan’a existence after
seeing him
Apostle Peter
• Apostle Peter is the name given to
Simon the fisherman by Jesus •
The highest leader of all disciples or leader of the church
• Deny Jesus’ existence after
following Him as His disciple when Jesus had been going to be
crucified
4.2.2 Susan Pevensie
Susan is the elder sister and the second eldest Pevensie child. She appears in three of the seven books — as a child in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
and Prince Caspian, and as an adult in The Horse and His Boy. She is mentioned in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Last Battle. During her reign at the
Narnian capital of Cair Paravel, she is known as Queen Susan the Gentle or Queen
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because she was not on the train or at the station on Earth which sent the others to Narnia after the Last Battle.
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Susan is given a bow and arrows by Father Christmas, together with a magical horn which, when blown,
brings aid. Susan shows her excellence at archery, but is advised to stay out of the battle. Together with her sister Lucy, she witnesses Aslans death and resurrection
on the Stone Table. After the battle, she is crowned to the Radiant Southern Sun as Queen of Narnia by Aslan, and shares the monarchy with her brothers Peter and
Edmund and her sister Lucy. She later becomes known as Queen Susan the Gentle. The period of their reign is considered the Golden Age of Narnia.
Throughout the book, Susan is the voice of caution and common sense. Even at the end, after a number of years in Narnia, she counsels against pursuing
the White Stag, fearing the upset to the established order she and her siblings all sense the pursuit might bring.
Susan allegorizes Mary Magdalene in Bible. Mary Magdalene who was always there as the faithful disciple of Christ when he was crucified, buried and
she came to Jesus’ tomb early in the morning with other women and bring spices. Just like Mary, for the first time Susan doesn’t believe in Aslan but when she has
saw Aslan, then she believes. When Mary saw Jesus was teaching His disciples about His Father’s Kingdom, she saw Jesus and she wanted to know more about
Christ’s Kingdo m and how to get there. She turned her life from the bad one into the good one. She tried to live and follow Jesus and His other disciples. She may
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become the holy one.
Table 4.2.2 Similarity of Characteristics between Susan Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Mary Magdalene in
Christian Belief
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Christian Belief
Susan Pevensie
• Doesn’t believe in Aslan’s
existence either with Narnia’s story •
Following Aslan when he is going to Stone Table to meet the Witch
• Accompanying Aslan secretly with
her younger sister when he is going to be crucified
Mary Magdalene
• Doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ
either with Christianity •
Following Jesus when He is going to be judged in Pontius Pilate’s
house •
Accompanying Jesus secretly when He is being prisoner the night
before He was crucified and after He was crucified.
4.2.3 Edmund Pevensie
