C. S. Lewis and the Mole Admiral
2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 55; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/notesj/gjn164
ISSN1471-6941
Autores Tópico(s)Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
ResumoC. S. LEWIS had a particular interest in names, which grew, no doubt, from his interest in words more generally, an interest which formed the basis of one of his last books, Studies in Words. The names he gave his characters in his fiction are particularly striking because of their aptness. The medieval and renaissance habit of giving characters allegorical names that signify their qualities or their identity was congenial to Lewis. An obvious example is ‘Puddleglum’, the name he gave for his Marsh-Wiggle in The Silver Chair. ‘Puddleglum’ signifies well enough the saturnine and phlegmatic personality of the character himself, as well as his watery home environment (‘Marsh-Wiggles’ are the only creature wholly invented by Lewis in his Narnia books. In this respect, he was very different from J. R. R. Tolkien, who made up a great many types of creatures to populate his Middle Earth and its darker regions, for example ‘balrogs’, dragon-like monsters of the deep.)
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