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Digory KirkeDigory Kirke is a human character from C.S. Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. He is prominent in two of the seven books: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew. He also appears in The Last Battle. In The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book to be published but the first in the chronology of Narnia, Digory is a small boy whose uncle has made magic rings that allow whoever wears them to travel to other worlds by passing through Wood between Worlds. The uncle first tricks Digory's friend Polly Plummer into trying the ring and then blackmails his nephew to retrieve her with another ring. After leaving the Woods into another world, Digory breaks an enchantment and inadvertently release Jadis, the future White Witch, from her dead world, and accidentally brings her back to London, and soon after, Narnia. In The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Digory appears at the beginning and the end of the story as the elderly Professor Kirke; his house is the place where the Pevensie children enter the wardrobe that leads into Narnia. As an allegorical figure, Digory represents, as a child, free will and its consequences for the believer, and as an adult, discipleship and guidance. In either of his incarnations he is an obvious proxy for Lewis himself. Kirke, Digory
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