The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a charming tale with magical creatures intended to entertain and delight, but it is also a story about temptation, disobedience, forgiveness, and redemption.

The imagery is subtle enough that children won't be hit over the head with it. As they sit wide-eyed before the movie screen, enchanted by the sights and sounds of a winter wonderland and talking animals, the adults, particularly Christians, will see these images vividly.

Whether C.S. Lewis intended to write it as an allegory or not, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is most assuredly an allegory.

Young Edmund (pictured with the White Witch), tempted by the witch and her Turkish Delights, betrays his siblings, and his betrayal puts them in peril and causes Aslan's death (See Christian Imagery in Narnia). Branded a traitor, Edmund is to be handed over to the White Witch for punishment, according to the law. Aslan makes a deal with the witch to stand in the boy's place and suffer for his crimes.

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