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In Madeline L’Engles “A Wrinkle In Time”, the use of dark and light throughout the book are striking symbols of good and evil, as read in described images, details, and diction. Dark and light are described, creating vivid imagery. “ The shadow was still there, dark and dreadful.”(44) In reading this, something evil comes to mind. “ The light spread out and where it touched the darkness, the darkness disappeared.”(57) Strong images of light beating dark are shown in this sentence. Descriptive details are used throughout the story, portraying the dark as evil, and the light as good. “ A star giving up its life in battle with the thing. It won, oh, yes, my children it won.”(57) “ What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before, or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear beyond shuddering, Beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort?”(44) Details are continuously setting the scene, dark vs. light. Several statements within the story, elude to dark being evil and light being good. “ Good helps us, the stars help us, perhaps what you would call light helps us, love helps us.”(118) Meg thinks that light helps build us up. “Make it go away Mrs. Whatsit, he whispered. Make it go away, it’s evil.”(44) Calvin believes the darkness tears us down and is evil.
Dark and light continually show importance in the story; they are constant symbols. Dark and light throughout the book show they are enemies, and in the end, the battle between them proves the light to be triumphant.