The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Characters

The four major characters in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, sent away by their parents from the London of World War II air raids. Lucy, the youngest, is the most virtuous; appropriately enough, she is the first to enter Narnia, Lewis's alternate world. She suffers for being the first when her older siblings choose not to believe her, and her brother Edmund lies to the other two after he has entered Narnia. In fact, Edmund's villainy is a major strain in the plot and sets up the terrible climax in which Aslan, the great — but not tame...

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