C.S. Lewis in Narnia: Allegory, or Not?

(Rilstone 4).
             He also "encouraged [a] child to decipher the greater significance of [Aslan]" by thinking of one who:.
             (1) Arrived at the same time as Father Christmas (2) Said he was the son of the Great Emperor (3) Gave himself up for someone else's fault to be jeered at and killed by wicked people (4) Came to life again [and] (5) Is sometimes spoken of as a Lamb.don't [we] really know His name in this world? ( , 2).
             With such blatant allusions to Christ and his life, I can hardly resist nodding towards allegory in categorizing the Chronicles. In C. S. Lewis "Shadowlands", the film version of Lewis" biography, he is reported to have told his wife, Joy, that "[he]'s never stopped trying to imagine heaven.[and that] [his] stories are about heaven." This seems to be another assertion to the allegory he so adamantly denies creating. .
             The reference book - type guide, Companion to Narnia. might clarify the matters a bit. Madeleine L"Engle recalls a lecture by Dr. Caroline Gordon, in which Dante's The Devine Comedy was read in the four literary levels recognized by Dante's theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. The first level was, of course, the literal level, which the author intends and, in Lewis" case, happens to be the story itself. The other three levels are spiritual, consisting of moral, allegorical, and anagogical levels. "The moral level is what the story has to say" L"Engle says. "[S]o far as the things in Christ.are types of what we ought to do, there is the moral sense" says Aquinas (L"Engle, xiv). Thus, it seems, Lewis conveys the idea of following one's conscience in his Chronicles. In other words, following the "instinctive and educated knowledge of what is good and what is evil.often expressed as the feeling "deep down inside" that something ought to be done or ought to be avoided" (Ford, 246). The allegorical and anagogical levels, however, are harder to pinpoint and, expressly, most hard to decipher between.