Lent and Narnia (6)
Anger is the deadly sin that takes center stage is the sixth Narnia story, The Magician's Nephew. In a sense, anger is the original sin in this tale of Narnia’s creation. Polly Plummer, Digory Ketterley, and Digory's Uncle Andrew, a bizarre black magician are key characters. Digory thinks his uncle “mad” ( to good effect throughout the story). He is “mad” in his pursuits in the dark arts and “mad” at any who resist him or get in his way. “After Uncle Andrew has tricked Polly into trying on one of the rings and she has disappeared, Digory confronts him with cheeks that ‘were flaming with anger.’ Not to be frightened, his uncle, ‘bringing his hand down on the table’ said: ‘I will not be talked to like that by a little dirty schoolboy. You don't understand. I am the great scholar, the magician, the adept, who is doing the experiment’ (22-23). Digory replies by shouting at him, telling him to ‘shut up,’ speaking fiercely at him, and wishing he was ‘big enough to punch [his...