Thought on Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time
The 'dark thing' represents plain, thoughtless, formality, and complete order.
Ms. Whatsit said that great creators such as artists, Jesus, Einstein, Shakespeare and other great creators fought off the 'dark thing'. The average person to a certain decree is creative, but its not enough to fight away the 'dark thing' or uniformism. Therefore a new brilliant mind must be born into the world to create new opinions and thoughts, for without something debate the world would be very uniform and people would no opinion to express. They would be mindless much like animals.
On Camazotz IT took over but striking fear into peoples hearts. By banning all uniqueness, thought, opinion, people became scared, nothing more than robots. Everything was uniform and prefect. No one was better than the other.
Questions are frowned upon because people don't always agree with the answer. Therefore creating debate and prejudice among those with different beliefs. Think of it like religion there is much debate on that subject.
It all very much reminds be of an excerpt from a story Ms. Wiles (08 English) had us read.
In the story people with, shall we say dull or unproductive minds, did not have mind locks. A woman in the story was one of those people, her husband however had a device in his ear the sounded a random noise every few minutes. Interrupting any thoughts that would be thought.
A ballerina had weights on her legs because she was better than the rest. With weights she was made equal or even below average.
Trying to make the world equal in all ways, and having anyone creative and different punishable by laws does take out prejudice. But is it right to take away peoples abilities. That's just prejudice and unfair toward people are more talented or who work harder than others. If we ever did such a thing in the real world. No one would go forward no one would succeed. Everything would just run together. Time would become meaningless.
 Christmas_B_Says_By_2_You · Wed May 27, 2009 @ 10:38pm · 0 Comments |
