Miraz
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| King Miraz | |
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| Narnia character | |
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| Race | Human |
| TitleTemplate:Pluralize from text | Miraz the Usurper, King of Narnia, Emperor of the Lone Islands, Lord of Telmar |
| Family | Caspian IX See relations of Caspian. |
| Spouse | Prunaprismia |
| Children | Unnamed son |
| Nationality | Narnia |
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Miraz is a fictional character from C. S. Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. He is the main antagonist in 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 is ultimately defeated in a duel by Peter Pevensie and then slain by his own advisors.
Character
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."[1] Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara argue that:
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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 the earth and its creatures, he will be more justified in exploiting it.[2]
Significance
The relationship between Miraz and his nephew, Prince Caspian, resembles that of Claudius and Hamlet in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, as well as Pelias and Jason from Greek mythology.[3]
In a Christianity Today opinion piece published in 2008, Devin Brown noted that Miraz was "aloof and emotionally distant" like Lewis's own father.[4] This theme is explored in more detail in Chandler Hanton's dissertation, The Tragedy of Caspian: C. S. Lewis and His Trauma.[5]
Adaptations
In the 1989 BBC adaptation, Miraz is played by Robert Lang.[6]
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."[7] The New York TimesTemplate:' review noted that the film's "major source of dramatic energy is the villain, Caspian’s uncle Miraz, who is played with malignant grandeur" by Castellitto.[8] 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."[9] In an extended critique of 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's original character.[10]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ionoaia, Eliana (2020). The Hero Paradigm in Fantasy Novels. Bucharest University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-606-16-1127-0. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dickerson, Matthew T.; O'Hara, David (2008). Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis. University Press of Kentucky. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8131-3865-7. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hardy, Elizabeth Baird (December 13, 2006). Milton, Spenser and the Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C.S. Lewis Novels. McFarland & Company. pp. 53–54. ISBN 0-7864-2876-7.
…it is likely that Miraz's creation owes more to a tradition of scheming, murdering throne-stealers, such as Hamlet's Uncle Claudius…
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brown, Devin (April 22, 2008). "Is Caspian Really C. S. Lewis?". Christianity Today. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hanton, Chandler (Spring 2022). The Tragedy of Caspian: C. S. Lewis and His Trauma (MA). Georgia Southern University. Retrieved Aug 18, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BBC Programme Index". 26 November 1989. Archived from the original on November 23, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davidson, Paul (Mar 13, 2007). "Caspian's King Miraz Cast". IGN. Retrieved Aug 15, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scott, A.O. (May 16, 2008). "Out of the Wardrobe, Into a War Zone". The New York Times. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.LaSalle, Mick (May 15, 2008). "Movie review: 'Narnia' sequel lacks magic". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boyer, Steven D. (Nov–Dec 2010). "Narnia Invaded: How the New Films Subvert Lewis's Hierarchical World". Touchstone. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
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