Introduction To The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Introduction To The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Open Ended

What is your favourite movie?

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What is the most inspirational movie you have ever seeen?

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What is the most meaningful movie you have ever seen?

​This term...

​The film we are going to watch this term, The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe is in part meaningful because it is an allegory. An allegory is a story, poem, or picture, that is used to reveal a hidden meaning or message, like the moral.

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Allegories are exciting because they use characters and events to convey a meaning. They don't just come right out and say it.

Multiple Choice

An allegory is 

• A hidden meaning or message

• When alligators tell the story

• When the meaning is told to you at the end of the story.

• No idea

Poll

Have you seen the movie Zootopia?

• Yes

• No

​In Zootopia

​For example the movie, Zootopia is a film steeped in allegories pertaining to tolerance and equality. In fact, the society, as a whole, is made up of predators and prey. And when a little bunny, Judy Hoops, fulfills her lifelong dream to become a police officer, the chief of police expresses major concern in her ability to do her job, based on her slight figure. If you have seen Zootopia you probably understood what the movie was trying to tell you, even if it didn’t say it directly.

​Narnia

​The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is an allegory for the story of the Bible, that story we learned about last term. But it is only one book in a series of seven. If you want to read the whole story you will have to get the complete set out of the library, or wait for the new Netflix films coming in 2023.

Open Ended

Can you think of an allegory from another film you have seen?

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If The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe is an allegory for the story of the Bible, what characters or events will you expect to find in it?