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THE PROPOSAL OF THE GOLDEN COMPASS BY PHILIP PULLMAN
The Golden Compass is a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman which was published in 1995. In England, Lyra Belacqua a twelve year old orphan girl takes a journey to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as “Dust”. The Golden Compass is a fantasy novel due to the use of imaginative characters such as the use of the daemon. Daemons are magical creatures with the power to change form when its owner is still a child. Fantasy genre makes use of magical and supernatural beings. And since The Golden Compass uses magic it qualifies for a fantasy novel.
For a fantasy genre often centers on an ordinary hero in an extraordinary situation. This is the case in The Golden Compass where Lyra a small girl sets out on a journey to find her missing friend Roger and her uncle who was imprisoned. It is not ordinary for a small child to take a journey in search for her friend as with Lyra’s case in The Golden Compass.
The Golden Compass makes a good use of a fantasy world much similar to ours. It is also a nature of a fantasy work to include imaginative and fantasy worlds. This is seen in The Golden Compass when Lord Asriel showed the Master, Sub Rector, Chaplain, Dean and the Scholars a photo with a picture of a city in the sky which makes it a fantasy work. So it qualifies for a fantasy novel due the use of the fantasy world. Due to the use of magic which is one of the many or so characteristics of a fantasy
The Golden Compass is a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman which was published in 1995. In England, Lyra Belacqua a twelve year old orphan girl takes a journey to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as “Dust”. The Golden Compass is a fantasy novel due to the use of imaginative characters such as the use of the daemon. Daemons are magical creatures with the power to change form when its owner is still a child. Fantasy genre makes use of magical and supernatural beings. And since The Golden Compass uses magic it qualifies for a fantasy novel.
For a fantasy genre often centers on an ordinary hero in an extraordinary situation. This is the case in The Golden Compass where Lyra a small girl sets out on a journey to find her missing friend Roger and her uncle who was imprisoned. It is not ordinary for a small child to take a journey in search for her friend as with Lyra’s case in The Golden Compass.
The Golden Compass makes a good use of a fantasy world much similar to ours. It is also a nature of a fantasy work to include imaginative and fantasy worlds. This is seen in The Golden Compass when Lord Asriel showed the Master, Sub Rector, Chaplain, Dean and the Scholars a photo with a picture of a city in the sky which makes it a fantasy work. So it qualifies for a fantasy novel due the use of the fantasy world. Due to the use of magic which is one of the many or so characteristics of a fantasy