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“Charn: The Desolate World”
Much of The Chronicles of Narnia take place in two worlds:
our world, which is planet Earth (duh…) and the world of
Aslan, which is Narnia (with his Country being something of a
“New Jerusalem” to Narnians). There is a third world, however;
a desolate world from an obsolete universe – Charn, the bir-
thplace of the White Witch. After their discovery of the Wood
Between the Worlds, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer arrive
haphazardly to Charn’s ruins and quickly realize they are in a
world quite different from their own, a world without life
and joy. Later they learn Charn was destroyed by the pride and
greed of its inhabitants, who chose to condemn the world to
devastation that to share it with goodness and ethics. Charn
is a vivid example of what may happen to a civilization, or even
an entire planet, that yields to iniquity and selfishness; it is
also a dire warning as to what our world may become if we do
not take care to preserve the love, the hope and the faith it so
much needs.
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