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Narnia's Hidden Message in Voyage of the Dawn Treader: PART 2
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The hidden symbolism in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader runs deep, but one of the most important messages is also one of the least discovered. We'll explore Aslan's quest given to Prince Caspian, Reepicheep, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, and many other Narnians in the Chronicles of Narnia. Find out today why C.S. Lewis decided that the Seven Lost Lords of Narnia became lost in the first place.
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  • @NauerBauer
    @NauerBauer Před 5 hodinami

    We don't all inherently recognize family as good. Some of us were raised in dysfunctional, abusive families. This video is emotional hogwash.

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 4 hodinami

      Even those with abusive backgrounds still recognize that family is supposed to be good even when it isn't, do they not?

  • @lindagriffiths8926
    @lindagriffiths8926 Před 10 hodinami

    Tao☯️ist doda-ism is not another religion, ideology or dogma... it's the fun-damental IS-ness of Aliveness now! Joe you are a light💡bearer a shining✨light, a star🌟BRightening up that, that's deep & dark... you don't have to sign up to anyone or anything... Bee🐝 the Bee🐝U-ti-ful man you are!!! 💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡 ✌🕊☮☯️♾☯️☮🕊✌ PS: your humour and sense of fun! is tao☯️in action🎬 Barefoot Doctor Stephen Russell would've loved you.

  • @trotux6825
    @trotux6825 Před 12 hodinami

    watch the Jay Dyer review

  • @saradowns7842
    @saradowns7842 Před dnem

    C.S. Lewis is a brilliant writer, that's all I have to say. This is explained very well. The only note I have is that I believe Octavian, also known as Augustus, was the second Roman emperor, not the first. (That was his uncle Julius).

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 23 hodinami

      Thanks for watching and listening so closely! I must admit I only did a quick Wikipedia fact check when writing this episode. I Wiki can be wrong , of course. This is what their entry says: "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC - 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Latin: Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire. " Is Wiki wrong on this one?

    • @saradowns7842
      @saradowns7842 Před 23 hodinami

      @@IntotheWardrobe Maybe they are correct. I know his nephew was also named Octavius/Octavian, at least according to a history book I read in middle school as part of a homeschool curriculum, but maybe it is a name they both shared. (The nephew's sister was also named Octavia, the female version of the name). My understanding is that Julius Caeser, the uncle, began founding the empire, although there was a lot of unrest at the time, and Caeser Augustus, formally known as Octavian/Octavius, took over at his uncle's death. I believe Julius and Augustus are different people, but this entry looks like it may be mixing up their names...

  • @blakehenry9030
    @blakehenry9030 Před dnem

    Maybe the broken stone table is the empty tomb, half expecting Aslan would say why do you look for the living among the dead

  • @Tigryphoness
    @Tigryphoness Před dnem

    Greta is my biggest concern. She feels like the type that would lean into the “Susan problem” and introduce her own feminist ideology. I hope I’m wrong with every fiber of my being- I really do, but she doesn’t strike me as the sort that will stay true to the values of the books.

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před dnem

      I really go back and forth on this. Her reputation is that of a soft progressive typical of Hollywood directors, but her interviews seem to indicate that she has a high degree of respect and reverence for the source material as well as the author.

  • @King_of_Blue-Eyes
    @King_of_Blue-Eyes Před 2 dny

    Narnia is a masterpiece in my opinion. I wished they could continue the movies! 😢

  • @King_of_Blue-Eyes
    @King_of_Blue-Eyes Před 2 dny

    How I wished they could continue making the movies, they are so great! 😢

  • @laurelsoderholm9480

    We all have the universal truth, but lots of us tend to block it out and do or say otherwise

  • @SoniaJbrt
    @SoniaJbrt Před 2 dny

    I would be super excited if Dallas Jenkins of The Chosen made 7 Narnia movies that were directly taken from the books. That would be awesome! He works miracles with a very low budget and millions love it. But Netflix? Nope. Just that you mentioned Anne with an E which is full of LGBT demonic crap, I am so afraid she will wreck Narnia for everyone.

  • @hollyallen8839
    @hollyallen8839 Před 3 dny

    I always knew this book showed the seven deadly sins, but i love this new info and the additions from medival times!

  • @GuadalupePicasso
    @GuadalupePicasso Před 3 dny

    6:18 I’m now 42, though I wasn’t a child when it came out.

  • @gebswife
    @gebswife Před 3 dny

    I greatly appreciate this video. Thank you.

  • @MobileRaidr
    @MobileRaidr Před 4 dny

    Im with Tolkien on the while too much religion stuff... honestly i wish you talked eeven just a little less about it...sorry just how i feel....still like the chanel tho

  • @MikeSmith-hj9oz
    @MikeSmith-hj9oz Před 4 dny

    Also contributing to the thoughts of 8 trails, correct me if I’m wrong, but reepacheep never faltered and even corrected others when they failed throughout the journey, and he is the only one to enter into Alan’s country at the end of the book.

  • @andrewnorriss7150
    @andrewnorriss7150 Před 4 dny

    Brilliant piece! Made me reread my 1950's copy of Dawn Treader (published by Bles, 4th impression) and I find at the end of chapter 8, after the discovery of the Lord turned to gold, Rhince turns to Drinian and says 'Well, that's three. Only five more.' Wouldn't that be eight? Do other copies have this mistake? Never miss an Into the Wardrobe! Andrew

  • @DembiBrox123
    @DembiBrox123 Před 4 dny

    What I don’t quite understand is who gave Jadis her so-called rights she may have been there at the creation of Narnia, but nobody made her a queen so who said she could do this who gave her rights?

  • @mzfee7521
    @mzfee7521 Před 4 dny

    Hey, if Joe Rogan turned his passion and fully surrendered his life to Christ man he'd be FIRE!! 🔥🔥🔥

  • @AJD0803
    @AJD0803 Před 4 dny

    AMAZING!!!! Thanks for your research and sharing this info!!! My favorite Narnia book just got even better!!!! :) Keep up the excellent work!!!

  • @jpz420
    @jpz420 Před 4 dny

    i love you

  • @Anonymityfan
    @Anonymityfan Před 4 dny

    As a kid I never understood how the White Witch wasn't human but I figured Witches were not human but their own species.

  • @SilverSurfer5150
    @SilverSurfer5150 Před 5 dny

    Amen! Keep Joe and all who do not yet believe in our prayers.

  • @user-uv2co4du3u
    @user-uv2co4du3u Před 5 dny

    True evil doesn’t oppose good morals. It opposes faith. Be vigilant.

  • @mjpetty7
    @mjpetty7 Před 5 dny

    Excellent work here with this one! "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is either my favorite Narnian chronicle or tied for first, and I've never once put these pieces together. What an incredible revelation that, truly, makes me think about this one differently. I can't wait for my next "Dawn Treader" re-read!

  • @kerrybock766
    @kerrybock766 Před 5 dny

    Nonsense. Taliban think acid on irls faces is good, the ayatollahs think torture and beheading is good as do the wahabists. Evangelical Americans think snake handling and phoney speaking in tongues is good. Etc etc etc. It is all distorted by religious lunacy.

  • @davidmas4924
    @davidmas4924 Před 5 dny

    Vraiment excellent ! Je n'avais pas fait tous les liens, merci beaucoup pour la vidéo !

  • @DiscipleDojo
    @DiscipleDojo Před 5 dny

    Fantastic video. Just a quick note that the sound is a bit low on this one. Not sure what your levels were when rendering the video, but I had to turn my speakers up much higher than normal. Perhaps it's just on my end, but I figured it's worth mentioning just in case it's not.

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 5 dny

      Noted! I may try to re-upload this one with a fix in the next week or so. Thanks for the tip.

  • @ZoeX87
    @ZoeX87 Před 5 dny

    Imagine if people could deal with their existential angst without falling into religious extremism and persecuting other people for failing to abide by YOUR beliefs. It's what this always comes down to, blame the scapegoats and use religion to justify persecuting them. Everything would be great if it wasn't for "those" people said every literal fascist ever. It's also a lot of disaffected men turning to ancient religion as justification to reimpose a patriarchal system that unsurprisingly benefits THEM. Society OWES them a nice house, a pretty wife, some kids and social respect and they think Christianity will bring back the 1950s for them somehow.

  • @somagames
    @somagames Před 5 dny

    Nice work! Love it!

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 5 dny

      Thanks for supporting the channel, @SomaGames! I'm wearing your Tshirt today!

  • @TheUnalteredMyth
    @TheUnalteredMyth Před 5 dny

    Would watch this but can’t find part 1 in the description

  • @lilianaszabo3289
    @lilianaszabo3289 Před 5 dny

    I ran here so fast!!

  • @tomboughan2718
    @tomboughan2718 Před 5 dny

    I thought he was modeled after St. Francis of Assissi, who blessed animals and healed people.

  • @farmergiles1065
    @farmergiles1065 Před 5 dny

    C. S. Lewis wrote this book so that it could be readily understood by children. The thesis of this video stretches the material so far as to be ridiculous. It's overthinking on a grand scale, and a scale of overintellectualism (or perhaps it should be called underintelligence) that Lewis would scoff at. I'm content to scoff at it myself.

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 5 dny

      I don't think Lewis would scoff at all. There's not question that this Immram is quite sophisticated, and a good book can always be enjoyed all the more by good analysis. The "For children" does not mean simplistic or dumbed down. The brilliance of Lewis was that he could write with such depth and yet still capture the imagination of children and adults alike. Narnia is meant to be enjoyed at multiple levels of understanding, but each level is enjoyable on its own. Further up, further in!

    • @farmergiles1065
      @farmergiles1065 Před 5 dny

      @@IntotheWardrobe I agree about adult enjoyment, and I don't deny the multiple levels, and Lewis provided both intentionally. I disagree with the kind of "sophistication" espoused here, and I think Lewis would have particularly objected to attempts to find it here. He has written plenty of material on how he approached them, and where his sources of inspiration came from, and none of those were "sophisticated either. You may look for sophisticated writing in "That Hideous Strength" or "The Screwtape Letters", or his many essays. His genius was applied to a different endeavor in Narnia.

  • @NHGorman
    @NHGorman Před 5 dny

    Watching this the day before I start reading Voyage of the Dawn Treader to my two boys

  • @dekuparadox5972
    @dekuparadox5972 Před 5 dny

    based as heck ending! :D

  • @justintyner9615
    @justintyner9615 Před 5 dny

    This kind of reminds me of Re:Zero, where the sin archbishops represent the seven deadly sins, but not necessarily the way you would expect, for instance, Sloth isn't lazy, in fact he was the most active archbishop, but he only put in effort to a point. Once Subaru (the main character) had some much needed character development (he was . . . slothful . . . ) and really put in the effort to beat him, Sloth almost immediately caved.

  • @IWS107
    @IWS107 Před 5 dny

    Great video! You should do the silver chair next...it's one of most mysterious books...

  • @thesisypheanjournal1271

    I don't see how to connect the lord who died on Death Island with greed, since he didn't know the water turned things into gold.

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 6 dny

      See my pinned comment. I think ultimately it has more to do with the dangers that each person faced, regardless of whether they consciously realized they were falling into the trap.

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 Před 6 dny

    Dawn Treader has long been my favorite Narnia book, and I think it's very cool how well your theory lines up. It makes sense that they and/or their islands might stand for allegorical temptations if the whole story is analogous to the trials of the spiritual journey of life. Thank you for these wonderful two videos on the topic! Lewis is my favorite author, and it's great to see the meticulous depths of thought he put into these books. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @Imjetta7
    @Imjetta7 Před 6 dny

    As long as she doesn't ruin it with DEI, it could be good.

  • @peterholden2016
    @peterholden2016 Před 6 dny

    @IntotheWardrobe Does this theory complement or negate Michael Ward's theory about each of the books drawing on the medieval imagery associated with one of the planets?

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 6 dny

      I think it fits within his schema really well. Planet Narnia has more to do with the "atmosphere" of each book than the specifics of the themes and plots. It's pretty amazing that Lewis could build out layer upon layer that remain in harmony with each other yet are diverse enough to make the entire product much more rich and multifaceted in the end!

  • @dustybees6308
    @dustybees6308 Před 6 dny

    I actually love this. I would love to break it down even further. It was Lord Rhoop that you initially proposed as Envy because of a process of elimination but it didn’t fit until you came to the 8 sins of mid evil dissent. Remember in chapter 2 that Lord Rhoop was the one that Caspian always had a hard time remembering. The well educated by Doctor Cornelius, Caspian who loved history best. I don’t feel he would actually forget a name but it is pointed out at least 3 times in voyage. Then with the last one with Lucy and Vainglory. Notice that Coriakin the star is being punished on this island. Could he perhaps been trying to shine brighter than he actually was. Vainglory. The monopods also on this island. Also pretty sure the only one able to completely ward off and be composed on every island was Reepeecheep. Hence why he could get into aslans land. I will read Voyage with new eyes. Very very interesting. Thank you

    • @IntotheWardrobe
      @IntotheWardrobe Před 6 dny

      I think you're exactly right about Coriakin. "He who exalts himself shall be humbled." Spot on with Reepicheep. There's so much more here I was unable to go into for the sake of time, but perhaps I should have pointed that one out specifically. I did try to imply it in the closing shot! Thanks for sharing this great insight. Please feel free to add more if anything else comes to you.

  • @mrs.manrique7411
    @mrs.manrique7411 Před 6 dny

    Journeys definitely expose people’s weaknesses, but hopefully only for them to start anew. There’s always a new day! Luke 1:78-79 "A new day will dawn on us from above because our God is loving and merciful. He will give light to those who live in the dark and in death's shadow. He will guide us into the way of peace". Lamentations 3:22-23 "Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness".

  • @UnknownHumanJoe
    @UnknownHumanJoe Před 6 dny

    Rewatching this before I watch part 2

  • @NarnianTerabithian
    @NarnianTerabithian Před 6 dny

    All I can say is... C.S. Lewis was a genius!!! 💯

  • @AbdullahToorMystic
    @AbdullahToorMystic Před 6 dny

    Portrait of gluttony had me if he isn’t gluttony then i give up.

  • @marciadroeger4434
    @marciadroeger4434 Před 6 dny

    Wow, tears here; beautiful.

  • @gerrimilner9448
    @gerrimilner9448 Před 6 dny

    i always thought it sounds like the 7 deadly sins, while reading it, though they have not been taught to me, so I'm not sure what they are exactly, it seemed to fit to me. i just skipped the bits i didn't really get due to lack of cultural understanding, though i looked them up once and was convinced- but the medieval version, this theory sits true!

  • @GarretGarlinger
    @GarretGarlinger Před 6 dny

    That was amazing! Loved this!

  • @jayt9608
    @jayt9608 Před 6 dny

    Tolkien and Lewis are much deeper than they appear, and with them little is by chance or mere happenstance. More, I would add three additional titles that I think should be considered for themes that extend far below the surface. John Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress is not a common allegorical parable but resonates with subtle themes and quiet wisdom. Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol contains a wealth of material not seen by the indescriminate eye, and A Parish Boy's Progress was the original or alternate title to oliver Twist, being plainly intended to elicit comparisons with the work of Bunyan mentioned earlier. All three of these books root their foundations openly in the Bible and its doctrines, thus they, like it, will resonate with themese and messages ever waiting to be teased from the text.