He now finds himself her prisoner, cowering at the bottom of her sleigh as it careens through Narnia to find and kill the other three children. In a very short period of time, from Edmund’s first taste of Turkish delight, the Queen has taken Edmund captive. #2: Turkish delight will take you very fast where you never planned to go. It wasn’t a very good excuse, however, for deep inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.” The point here is that sin will always seek to deny how evil “evil” really is! Anyway, she’ll be better than that awful Aslan!’ At least that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. I expect that she is the rightful Queen really. She was jolly nice to me anyway, much nicer than they are. Later he says,”‘All of these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn’t true. He does not want to get on the White Witch’s sleigh with her, he is appropriately afraid of the White Witch, and yet Edmund disregards all his first instincts… as soon as she offers him the Turkish delight. And then that same anger and bitterness clouds his judgment. His anger and bitterness made him a sitting target. The White Witch came upon a young boy who was cold, scared and alone. When Edmund entered the wardrobe and stepped into Narnia, his heart was almost as icy as the landscape. #1: Turkish delight will appear most appealing when we are weak. Here are a few things to bear in mind on the dangers of Turkish delight: All of this makes “Turkish delight” dangerous. In appearing to kindly befriend Edmund, the White Witch asks him a leading question: “What would you like best to eat?” For Edmund, who is just 9 or 10 years old, the particular item of temptation is this weird kind of jelly candy! What is it for you? Money, sex, power, prestige? The only sins that really tempt us are the ones that offer us what we think we want. Sin is, therefore, always ready to be whatever we want it to be. Sin will inflame our healthy appetites and desires so that something that is innocuous or even good can become the very destruction of us. It is the inclination of our hearts to rebel against God. It is the predisposition of our hearts to embrace what we know is wrong. By the way, isn’t it always easier to spot somebody else’s accumulation than your own (“This is my little pile of accumulated sin and here is your bigger pile.”)? But sin is not the adding up of our omissions and commissions sin is a condition. We are inclined to think that “sin” is the accumulation of things we do wrong. Lewis has taken this innocuous confection and uses it to show us something about the power of evil in our lives.
What is Turkish delight? The short answer is that it is a strange, gelatinous candy.
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