Aravis and Cor

[queen_aravis]

I was just wondering if anyone felt happy when, in the end of THB, Aravis and Cor ended up married...I know I did!

I'd been longing for it to happen ever since they met, as a matter of fact...

[elfjad]

I didn't feel unhappy but likewise I wasn't ecstatic - I think I was indifferent. HHB did not affect me like some of the other books - I'm not sure why though.

[QA48]

i didn't feel happy. i just thought that she married cor because it was in her best interest. i mean, she treated the guy like crap throughout the whole book :mad: and Cor being the naive and humble person that he is well, you know........ :mad:

[QA48]

I didn't feel unhappy but likewise I wasn't ecstatic - I think I was indifferent. HHB did not affect me like some of the other books - I'm not sure why though.

i say the same with the Silver Chair......

[NarniaHeart]

I thought it was great that they get Married!!! And King and Queen Too!? Awesome!!!




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[queen_aravis]

Originally posted by QueenAravis48:

i didn't feel happy. i just thought that she married cor because it was in her best interest. i mean, she treated the guy like crap throughout the whole book and Cor being the naive and humble person that he is well, you know........

Hmmm...I don't know about that. I think there was more to it than interest! Personally, I think that when Cor tried to stop Aslan from "getting" Aravis, she realized that he was more than a simple Calormene [boy], and started treating him better.

[high_kingpeter]

I think that Aravis really began to like Cor around the ending of the book. It seemed to fit that they both got married. They were just oppisites waiting to be friends.

[**DaRyNqUeEnOfNaRnIa**]

u no wut? ur so totally rite! i wuz waitin for it 2 happen since they first met!

but the real question is wut happened 2 Queen Susan! u barely saw her come in to the book! :(

[queen_aravis]

welll...that's true, but here's why:

a) The book wasn't really about the Pevensies, so you only saw her when Shasta came in with the Narnians.

and b) Because the other scene where the Pevensies appeared was the battle scene, and seeing as Susan didn't like battles the deal was left for Edmund and Lucy.

But hey, we saw less of Peter...*cries*

[Malacandra]

u no wut? ur so totally rite! i wuz waitin for it 2 happen since they first met!

but the real question is wut happened 2 Queen Susan! u barely saw her come in to the book! :(

But you know what happened to her. She never married anyone else, and went back to England some years later with her sister and brothers, and reverted to childhood ("teenager" wasn't really a current term or concept at the time; teen culture wouldn't emerge for a few more years). She didn't have much to do with the plot apart from being a foil for Rabadash; first to find him attractive when he visited Narnia and conducted himself like a proper knight, and then to see what he was really like when he carried on as usual at home, being a general all-around bully and A-hole.

[Prince_Cor]

It was kinda obvious they were gonna get married... :p

[Gryphon]

yeah i know, but i need to go and read it again cause i dont remember it all very well, theres been a lot of book between that one and now. :D

[Prince_Cor]

lol...I just got done reading it (again) Maybe if they spice it up they could make a movie of The Horse and His Boy...

[Giselle the Ethereal]

Guys and girls who always have awkward arguments always end up with each other. That's called Lovers' Quarrels. :D

I always felt that they would end up with each other.

[Lady Larien]

When Cor came back to the place where the hermit was i thought he would ask Aravis to marry him but he didn't. i knew they would get married in the end

[lilrumpkinkb]

lol...I just got done reading it (again) Maybe if they spice it up they could make a movie of The Horse and His Boy...

Yes, that would be good... I am gald that they got married. I am mad that they didn't kiss in the book, and did you notice that in Chapter 14 that Cor, and Aravis were shy around eachother when they met up.

'Aravis looked twice at his face before she gasped and said, "Why! It's Shasta!" Shasta all at once turned very red and began speaking very quickly. "Look here, Aravis," he said, "I do hope you won't think I'm got up like this (and the trumpeter and all) to try and impress you ot make out that I'm different or any rot of that sort."

Gotta love that!

[she-elfwarrior19]

When they first didnt get along well i had an idea that at the end they'd eventually get together.:D

[Rhyanidd]

I knew they would end up together...dont remember I time when I didnt think that!

Yeah Aravis did treat him bad, but some of it was her personality, she was independent and impatient, and Shasta didnt know that much, so it was frustrating....ok talking from personel expierence now.....I (an impatient person) am sometimes mean to people who dont know the stuff I know (say in something I am good at like knitting or washing dishes) because some things to us are intuitively obvious and we cant figgure why they arent to others....and we dont like to admit that we arent perfect.....;)

[♣Teh Deviant♣]

I thought that when they were young (meaning in about 3/4 to almost the whole book), they ALWAYS fought like a married couple! :D That was what made it obvioius to me...

Sofia

[Gondor Knight of Narnia]

I liked it when they got married in the end...wasn't expecting it. :D

[glamel]

i expected it, that in the end they will get married:D

[Rhyanidd]

When I was really little I wanted to be Aravis...I especially wanted to be friends with Gwyn!

[shmeepie]

the horse and his boy was my favourite book, and i was so glad when aravis and cor got married. lol i'm such a little romance nut :) there wasn't much romance in the other books, so i was a little disappointed when romance wasn't a big part in the book, and also that cs lewis simple put it as "and they got married so that they could quarrell with more convenience", even though i knew that they were madly in love :) ;)

[Malacandra]

Yes, it reminds me of a quote from Pyramids where Teppic talks of Chidder and Ptraci getting on like a house on fire: smoke, flames, people running around screaming... :D

I like to think that Aravis and Cor shouted and screamed at each other a lot, but got their disagreements out in the open, dealt with them, and never went to sleep angry.

[Puzzle dear]

It does say in the book that they were so used to arguing and making up that they married just so they could do it more conveniantly. I think it was love too.

[LadyEm]

Well, I think that was simply CS Lewis' way of putting it. It sounds like a bit of gentle humour "so that they could keep on doing it." Meaning of course that they were in love, and they would rather not quarrel with anyone else.

Likely they'd be jealous! I was pleasantly surprised that they got married at the end of the book. When I first read the book, I was quite young and still looking for obvious bits of romance, I think - so I hoped, but wasn't quite sure if Lewis would do it!

He isn't a romance writer. LOL. I think that's about as romantic as Lewis gets. But it was the perfect way to describe Aravis and Shasta's relationship.

Also - it's interesting to point out that they did *not* get married immediately upon return to Archenland. I believe the sentence before the one that talks about them getting married, "And later, when they had all grown up..." because they were still quite young.

So, here's my take on it: It was in Archenland when the romantic side of their relationship fully developed so that is why you don't see happening. You see hints of this relationship throughout the book and you see how right they are for each other, but it doesn't happen because it is not time yet - and Lewis isn't a romance writer.

[Rhyanidd]

Yeah I am glad that there wasnt alot of romance, totally would have ruined the books, however every time I hear the line "so they could do it more conveintnly" I laugh so hard! NO matter how many times I have heard it!

[buckmana]

My first thought is irony: they spend most of the book (and their lives together) bouncing off each other and they find out they're perfect for each other!!!

My next thought was that Aslan is a clever matchmaker (especially since he seems to have a vested interest in Shasta's life).

Aravis doesn't strike me as pretentious. Confidence in her abilities seems to be her defining characteristic. Unlike other Calormen women (girls?), she seems to be more interested in being a warrior than a wife (even though the only in-depth sampling we have is her friend Lasraleen (how did someone like that befriend Aravis?), who's a poor example even by those low standards).

So, therefore, she's critical of Shasta (and others) simply because he's (they're) not as perfect as she sees herself to be. And then she learns otherwise when he charges unarmed at a lion (it's really Aslan, but no-one knows that) to defend her!

I can imagine the Archenland army being led by Shasta and Aravis into battle with Corin at their side.

[Susan of the Arrows]

I'm totally okay with the idea of them getting together. After all, they were opposites at first and opposites attract. Harharhar. :D


I really think Aravis's feelings for Shasta (Cor) changed when he tried to save her when the lion attacked.... though the lion had no real intention of killing her. LOL

[Twilight]

I was delighted when they got married because I think they would be such a cute couple! :)