Fantasy of this type is pointed at young adults to help instruct them in the complexities of navigating the world. In what way were complex moral issues and spiritual challenges presented in the work you read for this week?
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The book Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern brought up a
few different moral issues throughout the work. The biggest one is the one addressed at the
very end, completing the plot. Celia and
Marco choose their own love and happiness over that of another person’s
life. Bailey was an ordinary person, and
they way that he was thrown into the Night Circus’ world bothered me. He was not given the opportunity to choose
anything for himself, just like Celia and Marco were denied that right, yet
they were still fully willing to force everything onto him. They were both upset that they never got to
do what they wanted and never got to be together yet in the end they were
willing to do that to another person.
Another moral issue this book brings up is how Celia and
Marco use everyone in the Circus as a pawn in their game. While they do not get their lives taken away,
none of them know to the full extent what they are participating in. This moral issue does not bother me like the
other one does, because I believe they are not taking anything away from the
other performers, but instead offering up a place for them to work without know
the full extent of what their work is benefitting. The exception of this is whenever they
directly lie to another person like Marco does to Isobel.
But the reader must look beyond Marco and Celia’s moral
crimes and search the real root of the problem, they were forced to participate
in these “games” just like everyone else.
Both Chandresh and Hector chose this life for these children and treated
them abusively growing up, then forced them to perform when they wanted to just
be happy together. The issues I brought
up in paragraph one would not have been a problem if it was not for these two
forcing the competition onto their children.
They had to use everyone in their lives like pawns because they were
pawns in a game they did not get to start and had no choice but to finish.
-Amanda LaCorte
Your analysis on the moral conflict of this book, especially about the ending with Bailey, resonates very strongly with my own opinion. I too felt that the whole functionality of the night circus is flawed in this way, but it definitely creates the hook of the plot and a new perspective on circuses. I'm torn on whether I find this circus intriguing or terrifying. Nice job!
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