Hello! I am new to this forum and I would like to ask one question that has recently started to bother me.I hope you don't think this question is stupid.
Why don't the Pevensies have psychological trauma?Like, Peter and Edmund saw and participated in a real war.Lucy and Susan literally witnessed Aslan's death. Shouldn't they have some kind of psychological trauma?How can one explain the fact that they avoided any psychological problems, having witnessed not entirely pleasant events?
All the best to everyone.
(For moders:Sorry, I probably chose wrong topic, if possible, edit it)
@tagsysshsj I think various characters in the series certainly do have lingering issues that are simply left unsaid but are there if you’re looking. Edmund for instance is uncomfortable when talking to Ramandu’s daughter in Voyage of the Dawn Treader because while released from the burden of it by Aslan, he still carries the effect and memory of having been influenced by the White Witch and is now extra cautious about someone who may not be what they seem. C. S. Lewis probably just didn’t want to delve into these things in a children’s series, and likely didn’t think it needed to be touched on, similar to the fact that the ongoing war in the 1940s is barely addressed because at the time it was published everyone reading would have understood everything they needed to understand just from the bare bones explanation of the kids being sent to the countryside. Things like that that we might see as a big deal now are simply left for the reader to infer, because Lewis trusted that they would. I think just because the impact of things like witnessing death or partaking in battle isn’t talked about doesn’t mean it’s not going on quietly under the surface. Kids in the 40s would probably also be a lot less likely to talk about such things than we are now anyway.