The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe it is women (Susan and Lucy) who tend Aslan's body after he dies and are the first to see him after his resurrection. The significance of the death contains elements of both the ransom theory of atonement and the satisfaction theory: Aslan suffers Edmund's penalty (satisfaction), and buys him back from the White Witch, who was entitled to him by reason of his treachery (ransom). In Christian belief, Christ is associated with the Biblical "Lion of Judah" of Revelation 5:5. Professor Kirke is based on W.T. Kirkpatrick, who tutored a 16-year-old Lewis. "Kirk," as he was sometimes called, taught the
Mr. and Mrs. Beaver Mr. and Mrs. Beaver Mr. and Mrs. Beaver are fictional characters in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. In "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" they are instrumental in conveying the Pevensie children to Aslan, and they appear briefly in the final novel "The Last Battle". In "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", Mr. Beaver encounters the Pevensies in the snow-covered Narnian woods, when they have left the ransacked cave of Tumnus the faun, after they discover that Tumnus has been arrested by the White Witch's police. Mr. Beaver introduces himself and takes him back to his