I think you could have great fun exploring that state of mind, as I think the power/ego thing could come into it sort of by the back door, in a different way. So she could almost start to see herself as a sort of martyr, firstly due to the terrible price, secondly due to being the only one left, and thirdly because she saw herself as being the only one who could 'save' the world by making this terrible decision. It would tie in with Uncle Andrew's repeated remarks about, "Ours is a high and lonely destiny."
I *DO* like the way that in your version, it makes complete sense for Jadis to be keeping Narnia in endless winter. Of course, in LWW, before Lewis had thought of the Magician's Nephew bit, she has a different etymology, being descended from Adam's first wife Lilith, who had giantish blood in her. But you can't really do anything about Lewis's own continuity problems ;-)
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Date: 2005-12-17 07:58 pm (UTC)I *DO* like the way that in your version, it makes complete sense for Jadis to be keeping Narnia in endless winter. Of course, in LWW, before Lewis had thought of the Magician's Nephew bit, she has a different etymology, being descended from Adam's first wife Lilith, who had giantish blood in her. But you can't really do anything about Lewis's own continuity problems ;-)
What about it never being Christmas??