Digory Kirke

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Digory Kirke is a human character from C. S. Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. He is prominent in two of the seven books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew. He also appears in The Last Battle.

In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he is played as an adult by Jim Broadbent.

Synopsis

In The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book to be published but the first in the chronology of Narnia, Digory is a young boy. Digory's Uncle Andrew has made magic rings that allow whoever wears them to travel to other worlds by passing through Wood between Worlds. Uncle Andrew first tricks Digory's friend Polly Plummer into trying the ring; when she disappears, he then blackmails his nephew into following her with another ring in order to bring her back. After leaving the Woods and arriving in another world, Digory breaks an enchantment and inadvertently releases Jadis, the future White Witch, from her dead world Charn, and accidentally brings her back to London, and soon after, Narnia.

In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Digory appears at the beginning and the end of the story as the elderly Professor Kirke; his house is the place where the Pevensie children enter the wardrobe that leads into Narnia.

Commentary

Digory represents, as a child, free will and its consequences for the believer, and as an adult, discipleship and guidance. In either of his incarnations he is an obvious proxy for Lewis himself.

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