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32-590: Caspian is described as noble, handsome, brave, and merry; he strives for fairness and justice at all times and is a devoted King. For his love of the sea he is known as Caspian the Seafarer. Lewis introduces Caspian as the young nephew of and heir to King Miraz of Narnia. By this time 1288 years have passed since the rule of High King Peter and his siblings, and Old Narnians no longer live openly in Narnia, having been driven into hiding 305 years earlier by Caspian's ancestors,

64-662: A group that evidently also includes Jadis, the White Witch . Some readers believe that Jadis and the Lady of The Green Kirtle are the same person. Jadis, however, is slain by Aslan centuries earlier in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , and Lewis never describes her being brought back to life. The speculation is probably reinforced by the set of character sketches included in some later editions of

96-590: A horde of gnomes by her witchcraft, and planned to use them to take over Narnia. She is foiled by three friends of Aslan : Eustace Scrubb , Jill Pole , and Puddleglum , and is finally killed by Rilian. The Green Lady has kidnapped Prince Rilian, son of King Caspian X , and has fatally poisoned his mother, Ramandu's daughter . The Lady plans to conquer Narnia from underground, using the enslaved prince as her general. She understands that Eustace, Jill, and Puddleglum have been sent to rescue Rilian, and meets them as they head north from Narnia. She slyly directs them to

128-454: A new love interest, who will later become his wife. After confessing that he has not found a Queen and before reaching Dark Island and the World's End, he falls in love with Lilliandil , the beautiful daughter of Ramandu, whom he meets on Ramandu's Island. Miraz Miraz is a fictional character from C. S. Lewis 's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia . He is the main antagonist in

160-410: A serpent's bite, and their son Rilian rode to exact revenge but disappeared. Eustace and his school friend Jill Pole arrive in Narnia while fleeing a gang of bullies at their school, Experiment House. They arrive to witness the aged Caspian set off to sea. He had told his people that he wanted to revisit the places of his youth, but many believe that Caspian fears his son is lost forever and has gone on

192-543: Is explored in more detail in Chandler Hanton's dissertation, The Tragedy of Caspian: C. S. Lewis and His Trauma . In the 1989 BBC adaptation , Miraz is played by Robert Lang . In the 2008 cinematic adaptation , Miraz is portrayed by Sergio Castellitto , an accomplished Italian actor hypothesized by IGN as chosen "to give the Telmarines a Latin-Mediterranean ethnic flavor." The New York Times ' review noted that

224-577: Is rejuvenated by Aslan in Aslan's Country, and he accompanies Eustace and Jill back to their world for a short time, where they deal with the Experiment House bullies. Caspian makes a very brief appearance with his wife and son Rilian at the end of this novel, the final book in the Narnia series. He is present with all the other major characters who reappear in Aslan's Country at the end of the Narnian world. In

256-558: Is ultimately defeated in a duel by Peter Pevensie and then slain by his own advisors. Miraz is a tyrant . Eliana Ionoaia notes that "this type of kingship can be termed a tyranny since Miraz rules through oppression, cruelty, and fear." Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara argue that Miraz seeks to remove all sense of enchantment from nature — swords and battles are what are real for Miraz, not talking animals and trees — and by removing enchantment he seeks also to remove all sense of nature's sanctity. For in disenchanting and desanctifying

288-657: The Telmarines . In fact, the talking beasts are widely believed to be mythical by the human population, and stories of them are forbidden in Miraz's castle. When Caspian is a small boy (by which time both of his parents are dead), his nurse tells him of these stories, which fascinate him; but when he mentions them in the presence of his uncle, Miraz rebukes Caspian and dismisses the nurse. Miraz appoints Doctor Cornelius Caspian's tutor. Cornelius has dwarfish as well as human blood, though Miraz does not know this. Cornelius teaches Caspian

320-645: The 1989 television serial of Prince Caspian produced by the BBC , the teenaged Caspian was played by Jean Marc Perret . In the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (also 1989), the slightly older Caspian was played by Samuel West , and in The Silver Chair the aged Caspian is played by Geoffrey Russell (and the rejuvenated Caspian by Jean Marc Perret). In Walden Media 's 2008 release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ,

352-618: The Earth truly exist, but Puddleglum successfully counters the illusion. She finally uses her shapeshifting skill to transform into a gigantic green serpent , but the Prince recognizes her serpent form as the same one that killed his mother ten years earlier, and after a brief struggle, he strikes off her head. The story never makes clear who the Green Lady really is or where she comes from. The Silver Chair includes her among several "Northern Witches",

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384-421: The Lady is sometimes a snake, and sometimes "a maid / More beautiful than ever... Spread a green kirtle." Her transformation into a serpent: Her arms appeared to be fastened to her sides. Her legs were intertwined with each other, and her feet had disappeared. The long green train of her skirt thickened and grew solid, and seemed to be all one piece with the writhing green pillar of her interlocked legs. echoes

416-553: The Narnia series, relates that Jadis gained immortality by eating a magic apple; but except for the LeFay fragment, this book was written after Prince Caspian was finished. While it is possible that Lewis meant this to give a route to reincarnating Jadis, the text never follows up on it. Carina Rumberger-Yanda suggests that the Lady of the Green Kirtle may be associated with the eponymous character of John Keats 's Lamia . Like Lamia,

448-578: The Old Narnians accept him as king. When Miraz attacks, Caspian blows the horn, and the kings and queens of old – Peter , Susan , Edmund , and Lucy – are pulled back into Narnia. With Aslan 's help, they defeat Miraz in what Lewis called the "War of Deliverance" and restore old Narnia. Despite his Telmarine bloodline, Caspian is named the rightful heir by Aslan himself, for he is a member of Adam's race from Earth and proved ready to self-sacrifice for beings not of his people. He becomes King Caspian X. In

480-464: The book Prince Caspian , and is the uncle of the book's protagonist . Miraz killed his brother, Caspian IX , allowing his nephew to live as heir until, as the book opens, his wife bears him a legitimate heir. He is a descendant of the Telmarines who had invaded Narnia hundreds of years before, and a cruel and unpopular ruler. Most notorious for banning the teaching of Narnia's pre-Telmarine history, he also levies high taxes and enacts harsh laws. He

512-518: The books. In Prince Caspian , Nikabrik and his companions suggest that the White Witch could be resurrected  – "who ever heard of a witch that really died?" In Lewis's text this plan is never put to the test, though the Walden Media film adaptation introduces a ritual that begins to pull Jadis back to life before the spell is broken. The Magician's Nephew , written as a prequel to

544-526: The books. One sketch describes Jadis as "completely evil, even in The Silver Chair ." Since it is the Lady of the Green Kirtle who appears in The Silver Chair , some conclude that this must refer to the Green Lady. This theory has influenced adaptations of the books; for example, actress Barbara Kellerman portrayed both The White Witch and The Lady of the Green Kirtle in the BBC series The Chronicles of Narnia . The character sketches, however, are recent additions to

576-467: The books; they were not written by Lewis, and, in this regard, are not supported by Lewis's text. Lewis scholar Peter Schakel even writes that the character sketch "states incorrectly that the Queen of Underland is an embodiment of Jadis". The mechanics of how Jadis could return are never made clear, since she is killed at the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , her last chronological appearance in

608-453: The character is portrayed by English actor Ben Barnes . In this version, the Telmarines are of Spanish descent so Caspian is portrayed with a Mediterranean accent, dark hair and dark eyes; he is older than he is in the book as he is already coming of age and is wrestling with his youthful desire for revenge against Miraz. The film also introduces an incipient attraction between Caspian and Queen Susan ; before she returns to her own world for

640-493: The description of Satan 's transformation in Milton 's Paradise Lost : His Armes clung to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining Each other, till supplanted down he fell A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone... In the 1990 BBC production of The Chronicles of Narnia , Lady of the Green Kirtle was portrayed by Barbara Kellerman , the same actress who played the White Witch. In the 2010 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of

672-543: The earth and its creatures, he will be more justified in exploiting it. The relationship between Miraz and his brother's son, Prince Caspian , resembles that of Claudius and Hamlet in Shakespeare 's play Hamlet , as well as Pelias and Jason from Greek mythology. In a Christianity Today opinion piece published in 2008, Devin Brown noted that Miraz was "aloof and emotionally distant" like Lewis' own father. This theme

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704-521: The film's "major source of dramatic energy is the villain, Caspian’s uncle Miraz, who is played with malignant grandeur" by Castellitto. While panning the movie as a whole, movie critic Mick LaSalle found Miraz "square-shouldered and decisive and, by medieval king standards, probably not all that bad. His beard may be too pointy for virtue, but he's hardly evil enough to make it worth yanking the Pevensie siblings out of 1940s England." In an extended critique of

736-507: The first three years of his reign, King Caspian X wins several decisive victories over the Giants of the North. Caspian, in his own words, "gave those troublesome giants on the frontier such a good beating last summer that they pay us tribute now." The titular voyage of the novel takes place exactly three years after Prince Caspian . Order has been re-established in Narnia, and Caspian has constructed

768-491: The giants' castle Harfang for the Autumn Feast, and bids them explain that she salutes the giants by them; for she knows that "man-pies" are a traditional dish for this feast and that this is an easy way to get rid of her adversaries. When the three unexpectedly turn up instead in her own domain, she attempts to dull their senses and critical thinking through hypnotic magic. She very nearly convinces them that neither Narnia nor

800-516: The last time, Susan gives Caspian a farewell kiss. Caspian is again portrayed by Barnes in Walden's sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , this time with a beard to show that time has passed and the Mediterranean accent has been changed to Barnes' natural English accent. Now in his early twenties, Caspian has grown and matured into a wise young man and is on a voyage to find

832-477: The missing lords. When they reach the end of the world, the mouse Reepicheep (who had fought to liberate Narnia in Prince Caspian ) goes on to Aslan's Country , described as a blissful paradise. During the voyage, Caspian meets the unnamed daughter of the retired star Ramandu . They marry and have a son, Rilian. In this novel, 50 years later, Caspian is an ailing elderly man. A decade earlier, his wife died of

864-646: The movie, Steven D. Boyer complains that the rivalry between Caspian and Peter is nowhere in the books, but is rather itself a reflection of Miraz' original character. Lady of the Green Kirtle The Lady of the Green Kirtle , also called Queen of Underland and Queen of the Deep Realm , is the main antagonist in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis . She enslaved Prince Rilian of Narnia and

896-405: The sciences and history that his uncle prescribes, but also tells him secretly the true stories of Narnia's past. Cornelius tells Caspian that Miraz murdered Caspian IX , Caspian's father and Miraz's elder brother, to take the throne for himself. Although a childless Miraz never cared much for Prince Caspian, he was willing that Caspian should succeed him as king, as he would rather Caspian inherit

928-417: The seven lost lords of Narnia that were banished by his uncle. During the voyage, he is tempted by an evil green mist of Dark Island, which appears to him as his greatest fear: that his father feels nothing but disappointment in him. After defeating the evil, he is offered the chance to travel to Aslan's Country to find his father, but chooses to stay in Narnia and continue his reign as King. Caspian also finds

960-518: The ship Dawn Treader to sail the eastern seas in search of the seven Telmarine lords who had remained loyal to his father and were sent away by Miraz. On the way to the Lone Islands, the sailors discover Edmund , Lucy , and their cousin Eustace in the water. They have been magically transported to the Narnian world, and help Caspian and the ship's crew sail east towards the end of the world to find

992-416: The throne than a stranger. When Miraz's wife Prunaprismia gives birth to a son, this situation changes overnight. Cornelius urges the 13-year-old Caspian to flee for his life, for Miraz will certainly perceive Caspian as his son's rival for the throne. Cornelius gives Caspian Queen Susan's magic horn, which will bring help to whoever blows it. Caspian flees and meets creatures he once thought mythical, and

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1024-414: The voyage to seek Aslan to ask who could be the next king of Narnia. Meanwhile, Eustace and Jill rescue the lost Prince from the underworld where he had been held captive by his mother's murderer, the shapeshifting Lady of the Green Kirtle . Caspian returns to Narnia in time to meet his son before dying outside Cair Paravel, in the company of his son and many of his closest followers. After his death, Caspian

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