Heaven in C.S. Lewis's Cosmology

In the last chapter of volume The Chronicles Narnia, protagonists arrive in Aslan’s country, Narnia’s equivalent Heaven, or at least its outskirts. C.S. Lewis’s portrayal this imaginary world is course inspired by Bible, and previous literary depictions such as Bunyan’s Celestial City Pilgrim’s Progress Dante’s Paradiso Divine Comedy, but it also has a unique quality. Although on surface Lewis sometimes seems to contradict Biblical hypotext, he never betrays spirit Chapters 21-22 book Revelation. Indeed, achieves masterstroke fleshing out highly symbolic description new Jerusalem presenting his young readers with vivid concrete picture, reassuring those them who might dread being bored paradise. way which represents Heaven arguably one most successful attempts overcoming children’s potential misgivings accomplishes addressing reader’s imagination through myth.