God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour, or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in.
A myth is a story out of which ever varying meaning will grow whereas allegory suggests one meaning
Lewis was convinced that through story, the real world becomes a more magical place, full of meaning. we see its pattern and colour in a fresh way. The recovery of a true view of things applies both to individual things such as hills and stones, and to the cosmic - the depths of space and time itself.
Lewis regarded the purpose of his fiction as helping to undeceive modern people, who are separated from the past, with its knowledge of perennial human values, and from an acquaintance with even basic Christian teaching about the realities of sin, redemption, immortality, divine judgement, and grace.
For Aristotle, "Recognition marks a fundamental shift in the process of a story from increasing ignorance to knowledge. Protagonists, in a sense, recognize that they are in an unfolding story - a narrative precedes the event they are in, and will reach a conclusion subsequent to that event.
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