The journey on the dawn
The Voyage of the Dawn or A Ship from Narnia ( English original title The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ) is a novel by the British writer C. S. Lewis and appeared in 1952 as part of the series The Chronicles of Narnia .
Although written as the third book, "The Journey of Dawn" is, according to CS Lewis' reading, the fifth novel in the series.
The English term "Dawn Treader" literally means "Morgenrotläufer", here: "Morgenrotfahrer", in French "passeur d'aurore" or in Spanish "viajero del alba" and in Portuguese "peregrino da alvorada" it can be found again as " Traveler of the Dawn ”.
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"The Journey at Dawn" is Edmund and Lucy's first adventure in Narnia without their two older siblings Peter and Susan. The two landed together with their spoiled cousin Eustachius Knilch (or Eustace Scrubb) in Narnia on King Caspian's (formerly Prince Caspian) flagship, the "Dawn". He is looking for seven of his father's faithful who have disappeared at sea. Caspian's uncle Miraz had sent these seven lords on a long journey to get rid of them. Since the three children don't know how to get home, they accompany Caspian on his search. First they travel to the Lonely Islands. There they meet the first of the Lords, Lord Bern, who married and settled there.
After leaving the islands, they get caught in a storm that severely damaged their ship. They want to repair the damage on Dragon Island. When Eustachius discovers a dragon treasure and falls asleep on it, full of "dragon-like" thoughts of wealth and vengeance, he wakes up and is transformed into a dragon himself. He then becomes aware of how negatively he behaved towards others. He returns to them and, after an initial shock, is recognized by them as Eustachius in dragon form. His behavior changes, he perceives the needs of others and acts helpful. When he tries to shed his dragon skin, he fails and is desperate to always be doomed to be a dragon. Finally he meets Aslan, who releases him through a deep and painful cut and transforms him back into a boy.
On the Dragon Island they discover a bracelet belonging to Lord Octesian and conclude from this that he died here.
After a short stay on the Isle of Death Water (Tod Lords Restimar) they dock on the beach of the Isle of Voices, and Lucy frees the booby legs living there from their invisibility.
On the Dark Island (a place of darkness and recurring, real nightmares) they save the terrified Lord Rhoop from the water and escape the darkness with the help of a white albatross as a guide back into the light, which then disappears - unnoticed by everyone . The dark island also disappears.
On the next island, the island of the star, they discover three men overgrown by their hair: Lord Revilian, Lord Argoz and Lord Mavramorn, who fell into a deep magical sleep at the end of a long stone table set daily with the most delicious dishes. There, the daughter of Ramandu, the star, appears to them from a hidden door, later also Ramandu himself. The daughter explains to them the connections between the magic sleep and the stone tablet.
Then the "Dawn" leaves the island south to the Silver Sea. Because the water is too shallow, the ship has to turn back. Riepischiep, the big mouse, is now heading to the eastern end of the world in the dinghy with the three children. From there he wants to get to Aslan's land. Because only when one of the crew sails to the eastern end of the world can the spell that sent the three lords to an eternal sleep be broken. When the dinghy got so far east that it touched the seabed, Riepischiep said goodbye to the three children, threw his sword into the Silver Sea, in the bottom of which it got stuck, and rowed his little willow boat eastwards, where he - to put it in biblical terms - being raptured in Aslan's land. The children Edmund, Lucy and Eustachius return to their own world with Aslan's help. King Caspian returns to Narnia and marries Ramandu's daughter.
Christian interpretation
The transformation of Eustachius back by Aslan can be compared with the Christian conversion . First Aslan takes off the dragon cover and then the cover that made Eustachius an uncomfortable and dissatisfied person. From this point on he has become a changed person, without any action of his own. According to the Christian faith , God simultaneously removes the burden of original guilt during conversion (dragon cover) and makes the penitent into a new believing Christian. The bath that Aslan sends Eustachius to at the end of his “cleansing” of the dragon's skin can be interpreted as an image for baptism .
The fact that Aslan first appears as a lamb in his own country to Lucy, Edmund and Eustachius at the end also points to the Christian faith. The name of the ship "Dawn" indicates Psalm 139: 9 when it says: "If I took the wings of the dawn and stayed at the outermost sea, your hand would guide me there too and your right hand would hold me."
filming
After the two films The King of Narnia and Prince Caspian of Narnia , a film adaptation of The Journey on the Dawn was not taken over by Andrew Adamson for the first time , instead directed by Michael Apted . The film was released on December 10, 2010 in the United States.
As early as 1989, " The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Journey on the Dawn " was a television adaptation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karlsruhe City Library
- ↑ Narnia Translations in German ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wiki page , narnia.wikia.com
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Sources / literature
- The Chronicles of Narnia Volume 5 - The Journey on Dawn ISBN 978-3-8000-5349-0
- The Chronicles of Narnia (hardcover) ISBN 3-8000-5186-9