How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"Well, in a manner of speaking," said the Dwarf, scratching his head. "But he's really a New Narnian himself, a Telmarine, if you follow me." (3.52)
While the good guys will be good and the bad guys bad, Prince Caspian doesn't set up a lazy situation where all Narnians are good and all Telmarines are bad. This means we can't be super lazy readers when assigning characters to a side of the good/bad dividing line.
Quote #2
"Miraz weeded them out. Belisar and Uvilas were shot with arrows on a hunting party: by chance, it was pretended. All the great house of the Passarids he sent to fight giants on the northern frontier till one by one they fell." (5.18)
A king who murders his own allies and gets away with it? Ladies and gentlemen, we have our villain.
Quote #3
"Kill it," said another. "We can't let it live. It would betray us."
"We ought to have killed it at once, or else let it alone," said a third voice. "We can't kill it now. Not after we've taken it in and bandaged its head and all. It would be murdering a guest." (5.43-44)
Even though we don't know who these characters are, we can tell which ones will side with good and which with evil. Coldblooded murder tends to be a dead giveaway. Ha, get it?
Quote #4
Then Patterwig came back with the nut and Caspian ate it and after that Patterwig asked if he could take any messages to other friends. (6.4)
Hospitality is a shared trait among the good guys, especially the hospitality of food. This type of hospitality in heroic characters is totally old school, dating all the way back to The Odyssey.
Quote #5
"Pah!" said Nikabrik. "A renegade Dwarf. A half-and-halfer! Shall I pass my sword through its throat?"
"Be quiet, Nikabrik," said Trumpkin. "The creature can't help its ancestry." (7.15-16)
With this quote, we get to add racism to the qualities that make up the evil characters. Two more, and we get a free evil trait (of equal or lesser evil).
Quote #6
"They say [the White Witch] ruled for a hundred years: a hundred years of winter. There's power, if you like. There's something practical."
"But, heaven and earth!" said the King, "haven't we always been told that she was the worst enemy of all? Wasn't she a tyrant ten times worse than Miraz?" (12.48-49)
Spoilers! The White Witch died at the end of The Lion, but she still symbolizes unambiguous evil hundreds of years after her death. Oh! Siding with unambiguous evil; we've found another evil character trait.
Quote #7
Wherever they went in the little town of Beruna it was the same. Most of the people fled, a few joined them. When they left the town they were a larger and a merrier company. (14.62)
Aslan is the team captain of good in the dodge ball game against evil. In this quote, it's literally a matter of siding with one team or the other.
Quote #8
Then, at Aslan's command, Peter bestowed the Knighthood of the Order of the Lion on Caspian, and Caspian, as soon as he was knighted, himself bestowed it on Trufflehunter and Trumpkin and Reepicheep, and made Doctor Cornelius his Lord Chancellor, and confirmed the Bulgy Bear in his hereditary office of Marshal of the Lists. And there was great applause. (15.20)
Prince Caspian bullseyes the classic children's story ending. The characters who sided with Aslan and Caspian are rewarded for their valiant efforts and deeds. It's good to be the king.
Quote #9
"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content." (15.35)
This is perhaps the closest the novel gets to a middle ground between good and evil. Alluding to the story of Adam and Eve, the argument here is that humans are capable of both good and evil. It all comes down to what we do and whom we side with.