powerful king with a belly full of Turkish Delight. Soon his thirst for Turkish Delight is accompanied equally by his thoughts of power. With the White Witch’s promise of princehood, Edmund’s thoughts become even more clouded than before. Edmund demonstrates his greed for sole power on page 41 when he says, “There’s nothing special about them…I could always bring them some other time”. Them being, his brother and sisters of whom his wishes to share none of his newly promised treasures. Edmund goes on and on reaching for any possible excuse to exclude Peter, Susan, and Lucy from his involvement with the White Witch. Controlled by his greed for power and his lust for Turkish Delight, Edmund becomes distance and unfocused. Edmund’s lust is demonstrated one more time in the text when he leaves in the night to go to the witch, in turn betraying he group. On page 91 Mr. Beaver says, “He’s gone to her to the White Witch. He has betrayed us all.” In this quote he refers to Edmund, and Edmund has betrayed them all because of his lust. Overtime his lust has grown strong for the taste of the wonderful Turkish Delight and has deluded his judgment about the intentions of the White Witch. Another sin that can be found represented in the book is pride, though not as prominently demonstrated as greed, lust, or gluttony. At one point in the story Edmund seems to be too proud to admit he has been wrong. Lucy had met Edmund in the wardrobe and this finally gave her proof of her discovery. As shown in this quote, ”…Edmund had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy being right…he decided all at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let Lucy down” (48), when confronted about what he had seen, his pride took over and he decided he was too proud to tell the truth. A more easily found and more often represente...
