Decisions
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe contains many themes you can pull from it but I will be focusing on Edmund for this blog post. Edmund is a character who is different from the other three children because he makes an immoral decision to betray his family and everything he believes in for Turkish Delight. A moment of pleasure and victory for one individual has put Narnia and many other individuals in danger of the Witch. This relates to how Judas betrayed Jesus for some money; a temporary moment of glory in which he regretted later, just like Edmund. We all make decisions everyday, whether good or bad, that affect our life further down the road. Sometimes, those actions cause more drastic outcomes and other times, something small happens. If we stop and think about the decisions we make before we make them, we could change how our life pans out in a powerful fashion. This decision-making process to find a moral outcome extends to each moment we take because it is vital that we take the time in our short life to choose the noble option. Edmund and Judas are both examples of man’s lapse in judgement. However, Edmund is redeemed by being forgiven whereas Judas hanged himself for realizing his mistake. Both of them made a terrible decision and realized what they did afterwards, but if they had taken the time to think about their actions, the outcome would have been a lot different than how it actually turned out.
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