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Aslan is a talking lion who appears in all of the Narnia books and who plays the role of a Christ figure in Narnia. In this novel, he appears to characters when they’re on the verge of epiphanies. Aslan helps Eustace turn from a dragon back into a human (in a process that also makes him less selfish), and Aslan also helps Lucy confront her temptation to be more beautiful or popular. Aslan’s country is a paradise that few in Narnia know how to reach, possibly located beyond the World’s End, and the hope of seeing Aslan’s country is part of what motivates the Dawn Treader’s journey.
Aslan Quotes in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The The Voyage of the Dawn Treader quotes below are all either spoken by Aslan or refer to Aslan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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“Well, anyway, I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly toward me. And one queer thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. So it came nearer and nearer. I was terribly afraid of it. You may think that, being a dragon, I could have knocked any lion out easily enough. But it wasn’t that kind of fear. I wasn’t afraid of it eating me, I was just afraid of it—if you can understand.”
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Chapter 10
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“I will say the spell,” said Lucy. “I don’t care. I will.” She said I don’t care because she had a strong feeling that she mustn’t.
But when she looked back at the opening words of the spell, there in the middle of the writing, where she felt quite sure there had been no picture before, she found the great face of a lion, of The Lion, Aslan himself, staring into hers.
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“Oh, Aslan,” said she, “it was kind of you to come.”
“I have been here all the time,” said he, “but you have just made me visible.”
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Chapter 13
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“Because,” said the Mouse, “this is a very great adventure, and no danger seems to me so great as that of knowing when I get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear.”
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“You can’t know,” said the girl. “You can only believe—or not.”
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Chapter 15
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The King took the bucket in both hands, raised it to his lips, sipped, then drank deeply and raised his head. His face was changed. Not only his eyes but everything about him seemed to be brighter.
“Yes,” he said, “it is sweet. That’s real water, that. I’m not sure that it isn’t going to kill me. But it is the death I would have chosen—if I’d known about it till now.”
“What do you mean?” asked Edmund.
“It—it’s like light more than anything else,” said Caspian.
“That is what it is,” said Reepicheep. “Drinkable light. We must be very near the end of the world now.”
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Chapter 16
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“Dearest,” said Aslan very gently, “you and your brother will never come back to Narnia.”
“Oh, Aslan!!” said Edmund and Lucy both together in despairing voices.
“You are too old, children,” said Aslan, “and you must begin to come close to your own world now.”
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Aslan Character Timeline in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The timeline below shows where the character Aslan appears in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
Caspian promised Aslan, a talking lion who has authority over even Caspian, that if Caspian brought peace to...
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Chapter 7
...all a dream, but Edmund assures him it’s not. He explains that the lion was Aslan, the great leader of Narnia who lives in a distant country.
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Chapter 10
...beauty spell, but when she looks at the book again, she sees the face of Aslan looking back. She immediately flips the page. As Lucy continues to go through the book,...
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...Spell to make hidden things visible. She performs the spell, and all of a sudden, Aslan is in the room with her. Aslan says he’s been there the whole time, just...
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Chapter 11
Lucy and Aslan leave the book behind and come across the Magician, whose name is Coriakin. Coriakin reveals...
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Chapter 12
...in the distance. It floats around, almost like a kite, and Lucy thinks she hears Aslan’s voice urging everyone to stay courageous. The ship follows the speck until at last, it...
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Chapter 13
...with a candle to the table. She asks why no one has eaten yet from Aslan’s table. Caspian explains how they feared that the food put the three men in chairs...
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...Knife of Stone as being like a weapon that the White Witch used to kill Aslan on the Stone Table long ago.
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Chapter 16
...sweet musical sound coming from it. They believe they’re seeing over the World’s End into Aslan’s country.
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...No one hears from him ever again, but the narrator believes Reepicheep made it to Aslan’s country.
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...lamb by a fire invites them to have breakfast. Lucy asks if they’re headed to Aslan’s country, but the lamb says that they can only enter Aslan’s country through their own...
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Aslan tells Lucy and Edmund that they will never come back to Narnia again because they...
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