Symbolism Of Joy In The Book Of Narnia

The things that brought joy in life such as nature, music, good books, routine pleasures serve as minor indicators. One cannot make them their central focus. If so, such things will disappear.
The Chronicles of Narnia complement Lewis’s own experience, for in them one finds joy Lewis found ultimate joy only in Christ, and the Narnians, only in Aslan. The first Narnian tale foreshadows the last symbolic of how Christ is the Alpha and Omega In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the first mention of Aslan's name, readers find out each one of the children felt something jump in his inside. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious terror. Peter felt suddenly brave and adventurous. Susan felt as if some delicious smell or some delightful strain
Lewis clearly pointed out that what individuals enjoy here on Earth is nothing compared to what will be experienced in Heaven. "What would it be to taste at the fountainhead that stream of which even these lower reaches prove so intoxicating? Yet that, I believe, is what lies before us. The whole man is to drink joy from the fountain of joy" (The Weight of Glory 17-18). Lewis makes note that what will happen for believers in Christ, will happen to those who believe in the symbolic character of Christ, Aslan. In The Last Battle all his own finally reach Aslan's country. What the people of Narnia were yearning for in Narnia is now the most genuine form of joy. As Aslan says, "You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be" (183). Joy at the forefront means that one "cannot want wrong things anymore" (214) and "all things are allowed" (137). Lewis believed that joy carries significance, believing that Jewel the unicorn is succinct in her
This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this." (171)
In Aslan’s country, romanticism connects with Christianity, and the outcome is sheer joy In The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal F. L. Lucas says that romanticism results in a unique kind of arrogance:
Living on his feelings the Romantic grows more and more self-centered: the more self-centered he grows, the more he is reduced to living on his own feelings … "The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain"--that Byronic cry is the keynote of one Romantic career after another. The "pain" was seldom slow to follow. Those who seek such perpetual intoxication, must either vary the stimulant or increase the dose. (106)
Lucas held the belief that this continual stimulation pyramidal disease: "Sensationalism, Satanism, Sadism--these were the three maladies of later Romanticism" (120). In sensationalism an author exploits his readers deliberately attempting to arouse more and more sensual excitement either by whipping to hysteria the feelings they have or by stimulating feelings they do not have (109).