Lucy Pevensie
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Lucy Pevensie is one of the major characters from C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. According to Lewis's timeline, she was born in 1932. She is the youngest of the four Pevensie children, and the first to find the Wardrobe entrance to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy is portrayed by Georgie Henley, and her sister, Rachael Henley portrays Queen Lucy the Valiant at the end of the movie.
Synopsis
Lucy's siblings Peter, Susan, and Edmund do not believe her about Narnia at first, but later they all find their way to Narnia. In the first story, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, she is the first of the Pevensies to enter Narnia through a magical wardrobe in Professor Digory's old house, and sees Narnia in the One Hundred Year Winter, under the rule of Jadis the White Witch, the evil self-styled Queen of Narnia. There she meets Mr. Tumnus the Faun and, later, the Beavers. She is given two gifts from Father Christmas: a magical cordial that can heal any injury instantly, and a small dagger with which to defend herself "at great need". Image:Lucy'sgift.jpg
In Cair Paravel, she is crowned as Her Majesty Queen Lucy the Valiant by Aslan to the throne as co-joint ruler of Narnia, thus marking the fulfilling of the ancient prophecy and the end of the White Witch's reign. Image:Lucypevensie.jpg
In The Horse and His Boy Queen Lucy, now a young woman, rides to the aid of Archenland. She is described by Prince Corin as being rather like a tomboy, quite unlike her more ladylike sister.
She travels to Narnia again with her three siblings in Prince Caspian. In that book, Lucy is the only one to see Aslan at first, and she has a terrible time convincing her brothers and sister that he had returned, echoing her trials early in the first book. Aslan told her frankly to try one more time, and if they would not listen she would have to follow him alone. Lucy comments that Aslan has grown larger. He replies that he appears larger because she is a little older and her capacity to know him has grown larger.
While Susan travels with Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie to America and Peter studies with Professor Digory Kirke, Lucy, Edmund and their cousin Eustace are drawn into Narnia through a magical painting in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. This is very much Lucy's book, it is written entirely from her point of view. However, at the end Aslan firmly tells her she has become, like Susan, too old to experience the wonders of Narnia.
In The Last Battle, she plays a minor part as she returns to Narnia again with her brothers, High King Peter and King Edmund; Lord Digory, Lady Polly, Eustace and Jill. There, she witnesses the destruction of Narnia and lives in the new Narnia created by Aslan. In the new Narnia, all the people and animals who lived in the previous Narnia during its existence return and join together to live in the new Narnia. Lucy also meets her old friend Mr. Tumnus the Faun again, and Aslan tells her about a railway accident that occurs in England in which she, her brothers and her parents died. The Pevensies apparently live in the new Narnia forever.
Commentary
Lucy can be said to symbolize the natural virtues of humankind, whether manifested as "childhood innocence" or in its more mature forms as depicted in the later stories. In many instances, especially in a scene in Prince Caspian where she follows Aslan even though her siblings are unable to see him and believe Lucy is lying about seeing him, she seems to represent faith. At times, Lucy's experience of Narnia goes beyond words. In a provocative scene in The Last Battle, Lucy declines to speak because she is in the throes of what is possibly a numinous experience. ("She was drinking everything in more deeply than the others. She had been too happy to speak.")
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