Though the word "ransom" is not used, the Devil owns the sinner and gives him up only after justice is satisfied through a sacrifice. This portrayal of the atonement sounds to me most like the ransom theory of atonement.
In response, Aslan, the representation of Christ, says:Īslan then proceeds to give himself up to the White Witch, who kills him to appease the Deep Magic. Unless I have blood as the Law says all Narnia will be overturned and perish in fire and water. You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that for every treachery I have a right to a kill. You at least know the Magic which the Emperor put into Narnia at the very beginning. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (spoiler alert), the White Witch, the personification of the devil, says some interesting things:
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