History YMMV / TheSilverChair

* {{Fanon}}: Some fans seem to think that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is actually Jadis the White Witch reborn. This mostly comes from a mistake in a manual (''[[GodNeverSaidThat not]]'' written by Lewis himself, making it WordOfSaintPaul at best) that describes Jadis as being in this book. Likewise Barbara Kellerman played both Jadis and the Green Lady in the BBC adaptations--but this is ignoring that several other actors also doubled up to play different roles across the adaptations (for instance, Kellerman also played the hag in ''Prince Caspian''--three witches in one). It probably doesn't help that some characters theorize in-universe that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is ''similar to'' Jadis.

* {{Fanon}}: Some fans seem to think that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is actually Jadis the White Witch reborn. This mostly comes from a mistake in a manual (''not'' [[GodNeverSaidThat written by Lewis himself]]) that describes Jadis as being in this book. Likewise Barbara Kellerman played both Jadis and the Green Lady in the BBC adaptations--but this is ignoring that several other actors also doubled up to play different roles across the adaptations (for instance, Kellerman also played the hag in ''Prince Caspian''--three witches in one). It probably doesn't help that some characters theorize in-universe that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is ''similar to'' Jadis.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Puddleglum's climactic faith-affirming AuthorFilibuster, directed at an apparent HollywoodAtheist, rings of chain messages about good Christian students trouncing smug secular professors in arguments (though it should be noted that Lewis pulls it off a lot better than the authors of those copypastas do, seeing how he was such a talented wordsmith in general).
** The Green Lady, who bewitches people with her deceptively sweet appearance and music, is similar to the image that the haters painted of Music/TaylorSwift during TheNewTens, especially once they started calling Tay-Tay a snake after her spat [[note]] on her part, a polite riposte to vitriolic lyrics [[/note]] with Music/KanyeWest in 2016 (also note that illustrator Pauline Baynes drew the Green Lady as blonde). Although, the character more closely resembles the [[SnakePeople image]] adopted by Taylor herself as an ironic nod to the term's inference of her supposed insidiousness.
** Moreover, the notion of a [[TheReptilians shapeshifting reptilian invader]], lurking within an ElaborateUndergroundBase and subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control, is likewise eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Camilla Power's portrayal of Jill in the BBC adaptation makes her the favourite out of the various child actors who starred in the series. As such, Jill Pole also appears to have been aged up. In the book, she was ''not'' a teenager. While her age wasn't explicitly mentioned in the book proper, the timeline that CS Lewis later established set Jill Pole at nine-years-old during the events of the book. By contrast, Camilla Power was 14-years-old during the time of filming.
* EpilepticTrees[=/=]FanficFuel: What exactly the Lady of the Green Kirtle ''is''. At first she was said to be another witch along the lines of the White Witch. Then we found out in ''The Magician's Nephew'' that the White Witch was the only survivor of a destroyed universe, so the Lady of Green Kirtle couldn't have come from there. So who is she and where did she come from? For the movies, WordOfGod says that she is the source of the green mist added in the film version of ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', which was meant to foreshadow her role in the next story.
* {{Fanon}}: Some fans seem to think that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is actually Jadis the White Witch reborn. This mostly comes from a mistake in a manual (''not'' [[GodNeverSaidThat written by Lewis himself]]) that describes Jadis as being in this book. Likewise Barbara Kellerman played both Jadis and the Green Lady in the BBC adaptations - but this is ignoring that several other actors also doubled up to play different roles across the adaptations (for instance, Kellerman also played the hag in ''Prince Caspian'' - three witches in one). It probably doesn't help that some characters theorize in-universe that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is ''similar to'' Jadis.

** The Lady of the Green Kirtle's clothing, and later her appearance as the serpent, was described as "green as poison." This always seemed like an odd simile... until one remembers that ''arsenic'' was often used in the dyeing of (green) garments and wallpaper during Victorian times.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The Lady of the Green Kirtle is often called the Green Lady, the Green Witch and the Emerald Witch, despite neither appearing in the book's text. However, the last nickname is actually semi-official: the back cover synopsis of each of the Collier Books editions of ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' (first published in 1970) do make reference to Rillian's escape from the "Emerald Witch"'s underground kingdom.

* MyGreatestFailure: Averted. The kids seem to think that they have failed three of Aslan's four signs as they make their journey to find and save Rillian, and are particularly hard on themselves throughout the story. However, given that they ultimately succeed in their task, it is unclear whether or not they truly did fail any of them. While they clearly have difficulty in their interpretation of the signs, they have the help Aslan promised them in Puddleglum, and they eventually find their way to the Lady of the Green Kirtle's castle and save Rillian.

* CompleteMonster: The [[BigBad Lady of the Green Kirtle, or Green Lady]], is a powerful [[WickedWitch witch]] with a specialty in MindManipulation, a desire to rule over Narnia, and not even an ounce of morality. After arriving in the country, she assassinates the beloved queen. When Prince Rilian comes to avenge his mother, the Green Lady captures him and {{mind rape}}s him for six years until he is nothing more than her brain-dead servant and forced husband. In addition, she performs the same dark magic on gnomes from the Deep Realm, forcing thousands of otherwise good people into being her slaves who are allowed to do nothing but build her underground castle for years. When the heroes arrive in Narnia to try to rescue the Prince, she misdirects them into a pack of man-eating giants, fully intending for the 3 heroes, two of which are teenagers, to be brutally murdered and eaten. When the heroes manage to escape and confront her in her lair, she attempts to {{brainwash|ed}} them too, only to [[VillainousBreakdown go ballistic]] when the hypnosis fails, at which point she tries to kill them and thousands of gnomes and other innocent creatures living underground.

* CompleteMonster: The [[BigBad Lady of the Green Kirtle, or Green Lady]], is a powerful [[WickedWitch witch]] with a specialty in [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashing]], a desire to rule over Narnia and not even an ounce of morality. After arriving in the country, she murders the beloved queen, and when her son, Prince Rillian, comes to avenge her, she kidnaps him and subjects him to ColdBloodedTorture for 10 years until he is nothing more than a brain-dead servant of hers. In addition, she performs the same dark magic on the Dwarfs of Narnia, forcing thousands of otherwise good people into being her slaves who are allowed to do nothing but build her underground castle for many years. When the heroes arrive in Narnia to try to rescue the Prince, she misdirects them into a pack of man-eating giants, fully intending for the 3 heroes, two of which are teenagers, to be brutally murdered and eaten. When the heroes manage to escape and confront her in her lair, she attempts to brainwash them into becoming her slaves, only to [[VillainousBreakdown go ballistic]] when the hypnosis fails, at which point she tries to kill them and thousands of Dwarfs and other innocent creatures living underground.

* CompleteMonster: The [[BigBad Lady of the Green Kirtle, or Green Lady]], is a powerful [[WickedWitch witch]] with a specialty in brainwashing, a desire to rule over Narnia and not even an ounce of morality. After arriving in the country, she murders the beloved queen, and when her son, Prince Rillian, comes to avenge her, she kidnaps him and subjects him to ColdBloodedTorture for 10 years until he is nothing more than a brain-dead servant of hers. In addition, she performs the same dark magic on the Dwarfs of Narnia, forcing thousands of otherwise good people into being her slaves who are allowed to do nothing but build her underground castle for many years. When the heroes arrive in Narnia to try to rescue the Prince, she misdirects them into a pack of man-eating giants, fully intending for the 3 heroes, two of which are teenagers, to be brutally murdered and eaten. When the heroes manage to escape and confront her in her lair, she attempts to brainwash them into becoming her slaves, only to go ballistic when the hypnosis fails, at which point she tries to kill them and thousands of Dwarfs and other innocent creatures living underground.

* ValuesResonance: The fact that the teachers allow such bullying to happen at the school is treated as a bad thing in the text. Despite SchoolBullyingIsHarmless enduring for decades after this was written, this is quite telling. The book also averts DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, depicting Rilian's, seduction, abduction, brainwashing, and forced marriage as clearly horrific.

* ValuesResonance: The fact that the teachers allow such bullying to happen at the school is treated as a bad thing in the text. Despite SchoolBullyingIsHarmless enduring for decades after this was written, this is quite telling. The book also averts DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale, depicting Rilian's abduction and forced marriage as clearly horrific.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Camilla Power's portrayal of Jill in the BBC adaptation makes her the favourite out of the various child actors who starred in the series.

* ValuesDissonance: It's not by far the only thing he bashes [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Experiment House]] for, nor even close to what is considered worst about it, but Lewis seems to have problems with secular and gender-integrated education.

* ValuesDissonance: It's not by far the only thing he bashes about [[BoardingSchoolOfHorror Experiment House]], nor close to what is considered worst about it, but Lewis seems to have problems with secular and gender-integrated education.

* ValuesDissonance: It's not by far the only thing he bashes about Experiment House, nor close to what is considered worst about it, but Lewis seems to have problems with secular and gender-integrated education.

* ValuesDissonance: Lewis seems to have problems with secular and gender-integrated education.

* EpilepticTrees[=/=]FanficFuel: What exactly the Lady of the Green Kirtle ''is''. At first she was said to be another witch along the lines of the White Witch. Then we found out in ''The Magician's Nephew'' that the White Witch was the only survivor of a destroyed universe, so the Lady of Green Kirtle couldn't have come from there. So who is she and where did she come from? WordOfGod says that she is the source of the green mist added in the film version of ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', which was meant to foreshadow her role in the next story.

* ValuesResonance: The fact that the teachers allow such bullying to happen at the school is treated as a bad thing in the text. Despite SchoolBullyingIsHarmless enduring for decades after this was written, this is quite telling.

* FanNickname: The Lady of the Green Kirtle is often called the Green Lady and the Emerald Witch, despite neither appearing in the book's text.
** Note to the above: The back cover synopsis of each of the Collier Books editions of The Chronicles of Narnia (first published in 1970) ''do'' make reference to Rillian's escape from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom.
* {{Fanon}}: Some fans seem to think that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is actually Jadis the White Witch reborn. This mostly comes from a mistake in a manual (''not'' [[GodNeverSaidThat written by Lewis himself]]) that describes Jadis as being in this book. Likewise Barbara Kellerman played both Jadis and the Green Lady in the BBC adaptations - but this is ignoring that several other actors also doubled up to play different roles across the adaptations (Kellerman also played the hag in ''Prince Caspian''). It probably doesn't help that some characters theorize that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is ''similar to'' Jadis.
* FridgeBrilliance: At the beginning of the story, Caspian is going to find Aslan and ask him what to do about his successor, given that his son and heir has been missing for years. When Jill meets Aslan for the first time, he tells her that he has been calling her and Eustace since before they called to him, and he then gives her the mission of finding Prince Rilian. Aslan was planning the answer before Caspian had even asked the question![[note]]Given that Aslan is meant to represent Jesus, Lewis may have intended this realization.[[/note]]

** ValuesDissonance: However, Lewis also seems to have problems with secular and gender-integrated education.

* FridgeBrilliance: At the beginning of the story, Caspian is going to find Aslan and ask him what to do about his successor, given that his son and heir has been missing for years. When Jill meets Aslan for the first time, he tells he has been calling her and Eustace since before they called to him, and he then gives her the mission of finding Prince Rilian. Aslan was planning the answer before Caspian had even asked the question![[note]]Given that Aslan is meant to represent Jesus, Lewis may have intended this realization.[[/note]]

** The Green Lady, who bewitches people with her deceptively sweet appearance and music, is similar to the image that the {{hate|dom}}rs painted of Music/TaylorSwift during TheNewTens, especially once they started calling Tay-Tay a snake after her spat [[note]] on her part, a polite riposte to vitriolic lyrics [[/note]] with Music/KanyeWest in 2016 (also note that illustrator Pauline Baynes drew the Green Lady as blonde). Although, the character more closely resembles the [[SnakePeople image]] adopted by Taylor herself as an ironic nod to the term's inference of her supposed insidiousness.

** The Green Lady, who bewitches people with her deceptively sweet appearance and music, is similar to the image that the {{hate|dom}}rs painted of Music/TaylorSwift during TheNewTens, especially once they started calling Tay-Tay a snake after her spat [[note]] a polite riposte to vitriolic lyrics [[/note]] with Music/KanyeWest in 2016 (also note that illustrator Pauline Baynes drew the Green Lady as blonde). Although, the character more closely resembles the [[SnakePeople image]] adopted by Taylor herself as an ironic nod to the term's inference of her supposed insidiousness.

** The Green Lady, who bewitches people with her deceptively sweet appearance and music, is similar to the image that the {{hate|dom}}rs painted of Music/TaylorSwift during TheNewTens, especially once they started calling Tay-Tay a snake after her spat with Music/KanyeWest in 2016 (also note that illustrator Pauline Baynes drew the Green Lady as blonde). Moreover, the notion of a [[TheReptilians shapeshifting reptilian invader]], lurking within an ElaborateUndergroundBase and subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control, is likewise eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke.

** The Green Lady, who bewitches people with her deceptively sweet appearance and music, is similar to the image that the {{hate|dom}}rs painted of Music/TaylorSwift during TheNewTens, especially once they started calling Tay-Tay a snake after her spat with Music/KanyeWest in 2016. Moreover, the notion of a [[TheReptilians shapeshifting reptilian invader]], lurking within an ElaborateUndergroundBase and subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control, is likewise eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke.

** The deceptively pretty and sweet Green Lady, who bewitches people with her music, is very similar to the media's image of Music/TaylorSwift during TheNewTens, especially once Tay-Tay's {{hatedom}} started calling her a snake after her spat with Music/KanyeWest in 2016. Moreover, the notion of a [[TheReptilians shapeshifting reptilian invader]], lurking within an ElaborateUndergroundBase and subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control, is likewise eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke.

* {{Applicability}}:
** The Lady of the Green Kirtle uses genuine atheist arguments -- Aslan is merely suggested in the mind by her cat as is the Sun by her lamp, the upper world is just a pacifying fantasy, etc. -- to try and persuade the heroes that there is no Aslan (God) and there is no Narnia (Heaven). She could also be considered a SatanicArchetype.