The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

by

C. S. Lewis

Caspian, an old friend of Edmund and Lucy’s who first appeared in the earlier book Prince Caspian, is now King Caspian X of Narnia. He is also the head of an expedition on the ship the Dawn Treader. Caspian is a fair and well-liked ruler, but he temporarily leaves the throne behind in order to sail eastward toward the World’s End and find seven lords of Narnia. Caspian has a strong sense of justice and a strong belief in the ways of Narnia, as he demonstrates when he deposes the corrupt Governor Gumpas and abolishes slavery on his island. Still, while Caspian is brave, he is not flawless, and even he is tempted when his crew comes across a special pool of water that can turn anything into gold. Ultimately, Caspian places his duty to Narnia above all else, turning around right before the World’s End because he has other promises to fulfill.

Caspian Quotes in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The The Voyage of the Dawn Treader quotes below are all either spoken by Caspian or refer to Caspian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2 Quotes

Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter East.

Related Characters: Reepicheep (speaker), Caspian
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 22
Explanation and Analysis:

There was not much difficulty in settling the matter once Eustace realized that everyone took the idea of a duel seriously and heard Caspian offering to lend him a sword, and Drinian and Edmund discussing whether he ought to be handicapped in some way to make up for his being so much bigger than Reepicheep. He apologized sulkily and went off with Lucy to have his hand bathed and bandaged and then went to his bunk. He was careful to lie on his side.

Related Characters: Eustace Scrubb, Caspian, Reepicheep, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lord Drinian
Page Number: 36
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 3 Quotes

“You needn’t be afraid of me, boy,” he said. “I’ll treat you well. I bought you for your face. You reminded me of someone.”

“May I ask of whom, my Lord?” said Caspian.

“You remind me of my master, King Caspian of Narnia.”

Related Characters: Caspian (speaker), Lord Bern (speaker), Governor Gumpas, Pug
Page Number: 48
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 4 Quotes

At this Gumpas began to pay real attention. “Oh, that’s quite out of the question,” he said. “It is an economic impossibility—er—your Majesty must be joking.”

Related Characters: Governor Gumpas (speaker), Caspian
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 60
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 8 Quotes

“The King who owned this island,” said Caspian slowly, and his face flushed as he spoke, “would soon be the richest of all Kings of the world. I claim this land forever as a Narnian possession. It shall be called Goldwater Island. And I bind all of you to secrecy. No one must know of this. Not even Drinian—on pain of death, do you hear?”

“Who are you talking to?” said Edmund. “I’m no subject of yours. If anything it’s the other way round. I am one of the four ancient sovereigns of Narnia and you are under allegiance to the High King my brother.”

Related Characters: Caspian (speaker), Edmund Pevensie (speaker), Lucy Pevensie, Lord Restimar
Page Number: 136
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10 Quotes

“I will say the spell,” said Lucy. “I don’t care. I will.” She said I don’t care because she had a strong feeling that she mustn’t.

But when she looked back at the opening words of the spell, there in the middle of the writing, where she felt quite sure there had been no picture before, she found the great face of a lion, of The Lion, Aslan himself, staring into hers.

Related Characters: Lucy Pevensie (speaker), Caspian, Edmund Pevensie, Aslan, Coriakin/Magician, Susan
Page Number: 165
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12 Quotes

“But what manner of use would it be plowing through that blackness?” asked Drinian.

“Use?” replied Reepicheep. “Use, Captain? If by use you mean filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honor and adventure. And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here; if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honors.”

Related Characters: Reepicheep (speaker), Caspian, Lord Drinian, Lord Rhoop
Page Number: 192
Explanation and Analysis:

“Fools!” said the man, stamping his foot with rage. “That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I’d better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams—dreams, do you understand—come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.”

Related Characters: Lord Rhoop (speaker), Caspian
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 197
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13 Quotes

“Because,” said the Mouse, “this is a very great adventure, and no danger seems to me so great as that of knowing when I get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear.”

Related Characters: Reepicheep (speaker), Eustace Scrubb, Caspian, Aslan, Lord Revilian, Lord Argoz, and Lord Mavramorn
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 212
Explanation and Analysis:

“You can’t know,” said the girl. “You can only believe—or not.”

Related Characters: Ramandu’s Daughter (speaker), Caspian, Edmund Pevensie, Aslan
Page Number: 217
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 14 Quotes

“My son,” said the star, “it would be no use, even though you wished it, to sail for the World’s End with men unwilling or men deceived. That is not how great unenchantments are achieved. They must know where they go and why. But who is this broken man you speak of?”

Related Characters: Ramandu (speaker), Caspian, Lord Revilian, Lord Argoz, and Lord Mavramorn
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 227
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

The King took the bucket in both hands, raised it to his lips, sipped, then drank deeply and raised his head. His face was changed. Not only his eyes but everything about him seemed to be brighter.

“Yes,” he said, “it is sweet. That’s real water, that. I’m not sure that it isn’t going to kill me. But it is the death I would have chosen—if I’d known about it till now.”

“What do you mean?” asked Edmund.

“It—it’s like light more than anything else,” said Caspian.

“That is what it is,” said Reepicheep. “Drinkable light. We must be very near the end of the world now.”

Related Characters: Caspian (speaker), Reepicheep (speaker), Edmund Pevensie (speaker), Eustace Scrubb, Aslan
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 248
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 16 Quotes

“Only two more things need to be told. One is that Caspian and his men all came safely back to Ramandu’s Island. And the three lords woke from their sleep. Caspian married Ramandu’s daughter and they all reached Narnia in the end, and she became a great queen and the mother and grandmother of great kings. The other is that back in our own world everyone soon started saying how Eustace had improved, and how “You’d never know him for the same boy”: everyone except Aunt Alberta, who said he had become very commonplace and tiresome and it must have been the influence of those Pevensie children.

Related Characters: Eustace Scrubb, Caspian, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Ramandu’s Daughter, Alberta
Page Number: 269
Explanation and Analysis:
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Caspian Quotes in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The The Voyage of the Dawn Treader quotes below are all either spoken by Caspian or refer to Caspian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Bravery Theme Icon
).
Chapter 2 Quotes

Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter East.

Related Characters: Reepicheep (speaker), Caspian
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 22
Explanation and Analysis:

There was not much difficulty in settling the matter once Eustace realized that everyone took the idea of a duel seriously and heard Caspian offering to lend him a sword, and Drinian and Edmund discussing whether he ought to be handicapped in some way to make up for his being so much bigger than Reepicheep. He apologized sulkily and went off with Lucy to have his hand bathed and bandaged and then went to his bunk. He was careful to lie on his side.

Related Characters: Eustace Scrubb, Caspian, Reepicheep, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lord Drinian
Page Number: 36
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 3 Quotes

“You needn’t be afraid of me, boy,” he said. “I’ll treat you well. I bought you for your face. You reminded me of someone.”

“May I ask of whom, my Lord?” said Caspian.

“You remind me of my master, King Caspian of Narnia.”

Related Characters: Caspian (speaker), Lord Bern (speaker), Governor Gumpas, Pug
Page Number: 48
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 4 Quotes

At this Gumpas began to pay real attention. “Oh, that’s quite out of the question,” he said. “It is an economic impossibility—er—your Majesty must be joking.”

Related Characters: Governor Gumpas (speaker), Caspian
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 60
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 8 Quotes

“The King who owned this island,” said Caspian slowly, and his face flushed as he spoke, “would soon be the richest of all Kings of the world. I claim this land forever as a Narnian possession. It shall be called Goldwater Island. And I bind all of you to secrecy. No one must know of this. Not even Drinian—on pain of death, do you hear?”

“Who are you talking to?” said Edmund. “I’m no subject of yours. If anything it’s the other way round. I am one of the four ancient sovereigns of Narnia and you are under allegiance to the High King my brother.”

Related Characters: Caspian (speaker), Edmund Pevensie (speaker), Lucy Pevensie, Lord Restimar
Page Number: 136
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10 Quotes

“I will say the spell,” said Lucy. “I don’t care. I will.” She said I don’t care because she had a strong feeling that she mustn’t.

But when she looked back at the opening words of the spell, there in the middle of the writing, where she felt quite sure there had been no picture before, she found the great face of a lion, of The Lion, Aslan himself, staring into hers.

Related Characters: Lucy Pevensie (speaker), Caspian, Edmund Pevensie, Aslan, Coriakin/Magician, Susan
Page Number: 165
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12 Quotes

“But what manner of use would it be plowing through that blackness?” asked Drinian.

“Use?” replied Reepicheep. “Use, Captain? If by use you mean filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honor and adventure. And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here; if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honors.”

Related Characters: Reepicheep (speaker), Caspian, Lord Drinian, Lord Rhoop
Page Number: 192
Explanation and Analysis:

“Fools!” said the man, stamping his foot with rage. “That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I’d better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams—dreams, do you understand—come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.”

Related Characters: Lord Rhoop (speaker), Caspian
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 197
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13 Quotes

“Because,” said the Mouse, “this is a very great adventure, and no danger seems to me so great as that of knowing when I get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear.”

Related Characters: Reepicheep (speaker), Eustace Scrubb, Caspian, Aslan, Lord Revilian, Lord Argoz, and Lord Mavramorn
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 212
Explanation and Analysis:

“You can’t know,” said the girl. “You can only believe—or not.”

Related Characters: Ramandu’s Daughter (speaker), Caspian, Edmund Pevensie, Aslan
Page Number: 217
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 14 Quotes

“My son,” said the star, “it would be no use, even though you wished it, to sail for the World’s End with men unwilling or men deceived. That is not how great unenchantments are achieved. They must know where they go and why. But who is this broken man you speak of?”

Related Characters: Ramandu (speaker), Caspian, Lord Revilian, Lord Argoz, and Lord Mavramorn
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 227
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

The King took the bucket in both hands, raised it to his lips, sipped, then drank deeply and raised his head. His face was changed. Not only his eyes but everything about him seemed to be brighter.

“Yes,” he said, “it is sweet. That’s real water, that. I’m not sure that it isn’t going to kill me. But it is the death I would have chosen—if I’d known about it till now.”

“What do you mean?” asked Edmund.

“It—it’s like light more than anything else,” said Caspian.

“That is what it is,” said Reepicheep. “Drinkable light. We must be very near the end of the world now.”

Related Characters: Caspian (speaker), Reepicheep (speaker), Edmund Pevensie (speaker), Eustace Scrubb, Aslan
Related Symbols: World’s End
Page Number: 248
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 16 Quotes

“Only two more things need to be told. One is that Caspian and his men all came safely back to Ramandu’s Island. And the three lords woke from their sleep. Caspian married Ramandu’s daughter and they all reached Narnia in the end, and she became a great queen and the mother and grandmother of great kings. The other is that back in our own world everyone soon started saying how Eustace had improved, and how “You’d never know him for the same boy”: everyone except Aunt Alberta, who said he had become very commonplace and tiresome and it must have been the influence of those Pevensie children.

Related Characters: Eustace Scrubb, Caspian, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Ramandu’s Daughter, Alberta
Page Number: 269
Explanation and Analysis: