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Reepicheep of Narnia Volume 5 Number 2 Article 11 10-15-1978 The Honour and Glory of a Mouse: Reepicheep of Narnia Mark Bailey Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Bailey, Mark (1978) "The Honour and Glory of a Mouse: Reepicheep of Narnia," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 5 : No. 2 , Article 11. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol5/iss2/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract Despite the fact that Lewis viewed pride as “the central issue in Christian morality” and it is a great sin in Narnia, the character of Reepicheep escapes condemnation because his pride is “a proper sense of dignity and worth” and his motives generous. Additional Keywords Lewis, C.S.—Characters—Reepicheep; Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia; Pride in the Chronicles of Narnia This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol5/iss2/11 THE HONOUR AND GLORY OF A MOUSE: REEPICHEEP OF NARNIA by Mark Bailey of the Black Dwarves had become warped by the long Of all the great heroes of Narnia, the most un­ years of hiding and hating, nursing his hatred and likely is a small, fur-covered rodent who customar­ wounded pride. He was so eaten up with his hatred ily dressed in a red plume and a bright sword. of the Telmarines that he would pull down every­ Both touchy and foolhardy, Reepicheep, the leader thing and everybody to be avenged. Otherwise, how of the Talking Mice, was hardly an imposing figure— could he have been willing to restore the reign of more likely to inspire laughter than awe. But this the dreaded White Witch? improbable hero, created by C.S. Lewis, was not to be taken lightly. For Reepicheep was symbolic of Rabadash, the Calormene prince of T h e H o r s e much of the character of Narnia, in all its pride and His Boy is another example of pride leading to and g lo r y . humiliation and defeat. His self-esteem does not admit that Queen Susan finds him undesirable. She Start with pride. Of all the creatures Lewis is his forbidden fruit, all the more delicious be­ created, Reepicheep is the proudest and most sensi­ cause she cannot be had at his slightest whim. tive. Yet, to C.S. Lewis there was no greater sin Yet while he desires Susan, he derides the land of than pride. In Mere C hristianity he w ro te, Narnia as small and contemptuous. He makes the It is pride which has been the chief cause of prideful boast that, "...a thousand spears could conquer misery in every nation and every family since it in five weeks." And yet his two hundred horsemen the world began. are beaten less than 48 hours after entering It was "the essential vice, the utmost evil" and Archenland. could lead to every sort of wickedness. Yet even this does not show Rabadash his It was also Lewis's belief that pride was the error. Defeated, in the hands of his enemies, central issue in Christian morality, and he made faced by Aslan, Rabadash must s till strut and it a key to Narnian morality. The defeat of pride threaten, insulting his captors. It is this was required of each of the children who entered pride that Aslan punishes by the ultimate humilia­ Narnia as a condition of their taking their place tion. Not only does he turn Rabadash into the ass as leaders in Narnia, while nearly every evil to that he had tried so hard to make of himself, but enter that country can be traced to excessive Aslan decrees that only at the great Autumn Feast, p r id e . and in the full view of thousands of his subJects would Rabadash r e g a in h is human form. King Miraz, the Telmarine usurper of P r in a e C a s p ia n , is a good example of pride working evil on others and on himself. Racial pride leads the Pride, then, is clearly a grievous fault in Telmarines to attempt the extermination of the Old the subJects of Narnia, and the lands that Aslan Narnians. Even the memory of non-human intelligence had created. How then does the touchy and proud is repulsive to them. The lust for power and Reepicheep escape the punishments that others have wealth leads Miraz to k ill Caspian's father and re ce iv e d ? take the throne, but the desire to set his own son on the throne, the pride of lineage, is what sets To some extent, he does not. The toll in blood Miraz to seek Caspian's life. While Miraz has no and fur is high in the Battle of Beruna. Not heir Caspian is safe, but the birth of a son to the willing to stay out of the fighting for fear of King means death to the Prince. losing face with the rest of Narnia, and going directly against the orders of his king, Reepicheep Caspian escapes and seeks the help of the Old is very nearly killed. He does loose his tail, and Narnians. When the battle is Joined and High King with it some of his courtly bearing. Yet the tail Peter has come to aid Caspian, pride again begins is restored and Reepicheep never seems to suffer to work, this time on Miraz himself. Miraz is for his actions as do others in Narnia, including challenged to single combat by Peter, and Miraz, the children themselves. for the sake of his own self-esteem, his pride, The difference between Reepicheep's actions accepts the challenge from a fighter who is known and those of other people in the Chronicles is one to him only as a shadowy legend from the past) a of motive. Lewis, in referring to pride means, legend of power and sk ill and experience. "...an undue sense of one's own superiority, arrogance, c o n c e i t ." But he also means a feeling or sense of total disregard for the wants and feelings of others. Pride ultimately leads to the death of Miraz. As Lewis says, "Other vices may bring people to­ Glozelle and Sopespian, two of the Telmarine gether: you may have good fellowship and Jokes... nobility, are offended at the small rewards that among drunken people or unchaste people. But have been their lot after their aid in setting pride always means enmity—it is enmity. And not Miraz on the throne. Their pride has been wounded only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God." and they, in return, work for the defeat of Miraz. It is Glozelle and Sopespian who skillfully play on This definition would certainly apply to the a ttit­ ude of the Tisroc (may he live forever) and his Miraz's self-image when he must decide whether or son Rabadash. Each sought to further himself and not to fight Peter, making indirect suggestions his goals at the expense of the other, and at the that Miraz w ill appear a coward if he refuses the expense of their neighbors. Nor did Miraz give b ou t. "No man of your M ajesty's age...would be called much thought to those he had taken position from coward by any wise soldier for refusing combat or to those who had helped him to gain the king- with a great warrior in the flower of his youth." Pride offended played skillfully on pride to be­ ship of the Telmarines. come pride avenged. Peter's sk ill and youth held But look at the actions and attitudes shown Miraz at bay, but the knife in his back came from by the Talking Mice. At Beruna, Reepicheep is his proud friends. "...quite out of countenance at appearing before your Majesty in this unseemly fashion —" That is, without Pride works for the Telmarines too. Nikabrik his tail. He readily admits that he could live and 35 serve the king without one, hut asks Aslan to from what may be described as a trendy campus viewpoint. restore it to him for the sake of his dignity. In To emphasize Baum's ideological kinship with today's a land Where some m ight he "tempted to measure worth flower children and quote heavily from Charles Reich by inches" his dignity is important. And as is to overlook Baum's strangely conceived character Sacho Reepicheep said, "A tail is the Honour and Glory of a in The Sea F airies, whose passive innocence serves the M ouse." The Talking Mice were equally sure of this, Satanic Zog.
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