Life Themes within Prince Caspian A Revision

RAF, aka little Trumpkin posited a question to me regarding the fact that I did not address themes related to life and the affirmation of life in previous post. In the film during a respite in his duel with Miraz, Peter asks Edmund:

What do you think happens at home if you die
here?

In the novels The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and the films adaptations of the novels I noted the following formula Right Attitude + Right Action = Salvation

Right Attitude, the first part of the equation is a composite, which, requires that the faith of individuals be informed by reason and that reason of an individual complement, the faith of individuals enabling humankind to harmoniously balance faith and reason in a peaceful coexistence.

I would assert that the right attitude according to a Lewisian viewpoint would be akin to Eli's instructions to Samuel on how respond to G-D when G-D calls. Speak LORD thy servant is listening as illustrated by Aslan's chastisement of Lucy for neglecting her duties to the people and placing her own desires above the good of the people.

The existence of a right attitude endows humankind with the tools necessary to undertake the second part of the salvation equation which, is right action. The fact that a person has the proper attitude does not necessarily always result in the person undertaking righteous actions because, G-D granted to humankind the free will to make choices, and among the choices each human has to make is the choice to do good works for the betterment of humanity or evil works that harm humans.

For example after the disastrous raid on Miraz's castle and the loss of so many men both Caspian and Peter are tempted to a degree to call upon the White Witch and make a deal with the devil, but, Edmund's inherent faith in Aslan and his inherent reason accomplished the right action that saved both Caspian and Peter both of whom were blinded by their pride.


So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead. Indeed someone
might say, "You have faith and I have works." Demonstrate your faith to me
without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works. You believe
that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble.
Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless? Was
not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the
altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was
completed by the works. Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham
believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called
"the friend of God." See how a person is justified by works and not by faith
alone. And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works
when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by a different route? For
just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
James 2:17-26

In answer to the question What do you think happens at home if you die here? The answer depends on the righteousness or lack thereof, but as to what will ultimately happen when an individual dies only G-D has the answer to that question. I have experienced first hand what death is and it is beyond my capacity to describe it.