How is the Chronicles of Narnia like a chrysalis?
Clear “chrysalis” symbolism is also seen when Eustace Scrubb becomes a dragon in “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”. A most obnoxious and greedy character at the beginning of the book, he is literally transformed when Aslan painfully peels away layers and layers of Eustace’s dragon scales and skin, until there is nothing but a small, naked, scared little boy who emerges, with a whole new understanding of himself and aslan.
