A Necessary Evil

This is an ad hoc opinion about Evil in Narnia.

In Narnia there are distinctions of evil. I'll refer to them as Pure Evil and evil. I'll borrow heavily from dr. calm who said, "it is better to have evil entering the new world from an old, stale world that has had plenty of time to go wrong, than just appearing there..." Pure Evil is not natural to Narnia. It comes to Narnia from an external source. Pure Evil can take a physical presence. A Pure Evil creature is different from the creatures of Narnia.

Evil is but the sinful actions of Narnians (or its human visitors). The main difference between the creatures of Narnia and a Pure Evil creature is that Narnians have the possibility of redemption through Aslan, whereas Pure Evil creatures are offered no such redemption.

I'd like to picture Pure Evil as a virus invading Narnia. Narnia as a training ground for souls doesn't require Pure Evil. And the motivations of Pure Evil are difficult to fathom. To overdraw the long bow of viral Pure Evil, it may well have no other motivation than survival. The most powerful embodiment of Pure Evil is the White Witch, and she espouses neither a unifying theory nor higher purpose for her subjugation of Narnia. She enjoys wielding the power of life and death over lesser beings, but by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe her rule has become one of never-ending vigilance and the knocking down of upstarts, rather than a glorious march toward an eventual goal.

Narnians without contact with Pure Evil would still be able to complete their soul's training; Narnia at conception had no such thing, nor was it needed. Or to put it another way there is already enough evil in Narnia without Pure Evil. And so while the removal of evil from one's self is required for admittance to Aslan's Country (which might be viewed as the absence of all evils), Pure Evil is at best a distraction for, and at worst the destruction of, a Narnians higher path.