5/31/2023 0 Comments The princess and the goblin novel![]() This makes them accessible to us in a guise that we can tolerate. It would be terrifying for us mere mortals to look on real angels and demons, and so, in the world of Faerie, they are disguised as goblins, fairies, elves, dwarfs, princesses and godmothers. In his own writing and in Lewis’s treatment of him, I think that MacDonald has a gift for drawing back the veil between the spiritual world and the material world. In The Great Divorce, Lewis wrote MacDonald in as the ambassador from heaven. Lewis said that George MacDonald baptized his imagination. ![]() Even when she seems unsafe… remember, Aslan is not a tame lion and Gandalf afflicted the comfortable hobbits to awaken their desire for what is the true good.Ĭ.S. In this fairy tale, childish wonder and awe are absolutely requisite for us to really “see” Grandmother. ![]() In Princess and the Goblin, this is especially true, for us and for Princess Irene. When Jesus said to let the little children come to Him, I believe that one of His meanings was that we must shed our worldly prejudices and return to child-like faith and innocence. “…a little princess living in a castle in the mountains which is perpetually undermined, so to speak, by subterranean demons who sometimes come up through the cellars.” – GK Chesterton, George MacDonald 1929Īs adults, we have learned too much to really understand the magic of true fairy tales. ![]()
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