Born into the Church of Ireland, Lewis lost his Christian faith as an adolescent. Lewis himself had a complicated relationship with morality and belief. In Lewis’s world, the children must navigate numerous challenges, including self-sacrifice and redemption, the difficulties of growing up, and the importance of forgiveness. When the children arrive in Narnia, it is suffering from an endless winter under the rule of a terrible tyrant. At first, Narnia appears like an escapist fantasy away from real-life problems, but on closer inspection, these issues permeate Lewis’s whimsical world too. Furthermore, society entered a collective spiritual crisis, with faith in a loving God and the moral absolutism of good and evil challenged by wartime horrors. By 1947, food rations fell below wartime levels due to global food shortages, and Britain was undergoing a period of intense austerity. Written against a backdrop of the postwar years, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe emerged at a time of economic and social hardship.
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