I have chosen my primary text for the research paper as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. I remember absolutely loving this book as a kid, and I thought it would be really interesting to take another look at it from a totally new perspective. This book tells the story of four young brothers and sisters who stumble upon a large wardrobe chest in the house they are living in. The youngest, Lucy, crawls into the wardrobe while playing hide and seek, and through this, enters the magical world of Narnia. The story follows the kids on their journey to save this land and the creatures that inhabit it. The features that make this text dystopic is the land of Narnia itself. Narnia is ruled by the White Witch, a totalitarian leader who turns the land's creatures into stone.
I am planning on doing an archetypal analysis with a little reader response thrown in. I haven't done a whole lot of research yet, as I am waiting for the lecture on the rest of the archetypes. I am also going to talk about how my perspective on the text has changed over the years.
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