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Lessons in A Wizard of Earthsea A Wizard of Earthsea is a heroic, fantasy young adult novel which is written by an American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Majority of adults like adventures, so by reading this book, they will get into the world of imagination and magic. Using an appropriate and articulate language, A Wizard of Earthsea in a unique way attracts people toward its magic and wizardry world; a world which the basic action of doing magic are understanding and finding true names of objects which is the intrinsic nature of the objects. With magic and adventure, the book draws the readers to get the real meanings and lessons behind the story and its events. Using her brilliance, Le Guin takes what could have been a direct story of the …show more content…

Moreover, the story is about the interests of understanding the enticement by power and its risks and disrupting equilibrium. A Wizard of Earthsea represents a journey life of a young boy, Ged, as the main character who was born as a wizard. A great power in his words and speech existed, but in the beginning, he was an injudicious and cocky boy, who abused his power by unleashing a nameless evil shadow upon him. Then, he started a voyage to fix or undo what he has done while he did not know what to do and where to go. Along his journey, he adopted more moral lessons, got more experiences, and tried facing everything that came on his way. In short, it can be said that he adopted and learnt more lessons coincidentally from the events that happened. Through his journey, he reached the understanding and acceptance to give up on his pride. Also, he came to comprehend that power should not be exerted in the absence of …show more content…

To use power properly, there should be ethic, knowledge and wisdom, likewise for wizards, having the power alone to make magic is not enough. They have to be wise enough and critical whenever they do a magic in order to maintain equilibrium. Most people know about something in which many people refer to as the Equilibrium. In this book, keeping up the equilibrium means keeping up balance and structure of the universe of Earthsea. This is something that depends on the mind of wizards; the wise is the one who has a profound comprehension of how the world functions before performing any deed of enchantment, incredible or small. For the first time Sparrowhawk or Ged got the first lesson of equilibrium from his master, Ogion, when it was raining, and he laid under the tree without making any spell to stop raining in order to not shake the balance, yet Ged did not get what his master wanted to teach him. One day, Ged asked one of the masters on Roke, Master Hand, about how to make a diamond to remain a diamond after doing a changing spell on it. In reply, he explained it to Ged the relation between the power of making magery and responsibility or obligation for maintaining balance. As Master Hand said, “But you must not change one thing..the world is..in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the

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