Charlie risks his life but manages to survive in the flooded Grotto:
"This was what it meant to be a king, a real king - not wealth and glory, not leadership into needless wars, but serving the people, and if necessary, dying for them." (p. 178)
I like the remark about the wars but how many kings have seen it that way? Aslan sets out the requirements of kingship in The Magician's Nephew, CHAPTER XI, here.
Charlie goes further:
"The highest service a king could give was to lead them toward their own freedom." (p. 179)
Thus, he leads them away from the kingdom.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Not just kings, but politicians of all kinds AND their peoples have gone into or supported needless wars. The motivations and/or the forms might change, but the FACT remains.
Sean
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