<P> If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair (a character in The Pilgrim's Progress) represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure . In reality, however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question,' What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all . </P> <P> Although Lewis did not consider them allegorical, and did not set out to incorporate Christian themes in Wardrobe, he was not hesitant to point them out after the fact . In one of his last letters, written in March 1961, Lewis writes: </P> <Dl> <Dd> Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He (Christ) would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here . I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible; (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work . The whole series works out like this . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He (Christ) would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here . I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible; (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work . The whole series works out like this . </Dd>

The lion the witch and the wardrobe based on the bible