Wrinkle In Time

Meg Murry, a female heroine in the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, has to save her father from IT to bring her family back together. She goes through many obstacles during her journey. In the end, Meg accomplishes her goal to save her father and defeat IT with the help of Charles Wallace and Calvin. Throughout the novel, A Wrinkle in Time, Meg proves to be a character who shows trust, learns courage, and overcomes embarrassment. Meg Murry shows trust throughout her journey in the novel A Wrinkle in Time.

Meg Murry is the protagonist in the book a Wrinkle in Time. Meg is an underachiever in school, doubts herself, and gets in fights. When Meg was young her father disappeared and she wants to find him. Meg Murry was awkward and weird, but over the course of her journey she used her awkwardness to become a hero.

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

The creature claims that the creation of a equal partner like himself would make him happy. The creature proclaims, "my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existance and events, from which I am now excluded" (121). In this speech, the creature tries to provoke sympathy from Doctor Frankenstein. However, because of his previous acts of violence, his request is denied. This agonizes the creature: "Shall each man...find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have a mate and I be alone?" (140). The result of these constant rejections that the creature becomes violent and therefore cannot be blamed for his violence. The creature's desire to be given affection and sympathy can only reside in another being like himself since he has been denied by the world around him.

The setting and time period of this story supports the adventurous innocence of its youthful characters, as well as enriching the story’s momentous and climactic confrontation between the forward-looking Mona, and her more traditional mother, Helen.

These different kinds of love help to make the novel more complex and offer more viewpoints to the story. Family love is a great theme in the novel, and we see it in many forms. For example, we see it in the early chapters between Cecilia and Briony- Cecilia and Briony have an extremely strong relationship that falls apart as the novel progresses. The memory of Cecilia comforting Briony in a nightmare- “It’s only a dream. Come back” in Chapter 3, Page 44 helps tell us about the relationship they have with eachother, and also helps to show how Briony has unconditional support and loyalty to her family. Briony’s fault is that she cannot comprehend the idea that her siblings can be in any way sexual- she fails to see that Cecilia could be in a consenting relationship with Robbie in the library, and she tries to get her brother Leon to “provoke his admiration, and guide him away from a careless succession of girlfriends, and towards the right form of wife”. This strong family love is shown through Briony being undeniably loyal to Cecilia as she calls herself “Cecilia’s protector” and thinks a tragedy will bring them closer together. Everything she does is a step towards protecting her family. Family love is explored through all the characters, and the different relationships offer different viewpoints to the story- Lola and Briony, Robbie and Grace, Emily and Briony...these relationships show pure and strong family love.

Significance of Title: The characters of the book leave the current time of when the book is set, and dig deep into the past to find out what truly happened to the main character’s mother.

In the movie “Beauty and the Beast”, the role of a man and woman in an abusive relation is practically spelled out and strait from Disney’s female lead jar. Belle is kidnaped by the Beast and forced o live in the dungeon until her father is ripped away from her. During this time she is completely defenseless to the Beasts onslaught and often retreats within herself and rarely confronts him. Beast on the other hand, portraying an abusive male, does everything to a tee. He yells, bangs on doors, throws furniture, and even threatens starvation when Belle goes against him. Belle, being the kind and gentle female lead, looks past all his rage and finds he prince inside; highlighting the common problem in abusive relationships. The abused partner holding onto the hope that their abuser will change, that they will love them and show them the tenderness that used to be there. Women (could also be men) are supposed to take the abuse and wait it out, showing nothing but love while the abuser rampages and eventually, things will be just like the fairy tales.

In the novel A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, the main character, Meg Murry develops into an independent and strong person. In the beginning, she was fairly antagonistic, as she was always getting in trouble and fighting. Page 31- “‘Don't you realize that you just make everything harder for yourself by your attitude?’ the principal asked.”

Referring back to fairytales like Beauty and the Beast film which involves the beast who magically got turned into a beast as a disciplining act because of his selfishness. Then a beautiful young women by the name of Belle, got imprisoned in the castle. The beast is very fond of Belle since he first laid eyes on her. During the movie Belle being the catalyst for the Beast’s need of wanting to change. But he distances himself from her because he has two mindsets. Which is a man and the other is a raging beast. The beast is going through trying to

As young adult literature moved into the latter half of the twentieth century, it began to incorporate a litany of other genres, from the familiar didactic and adventure stories, to fantasy and romance. Among these, the genre of science fiction was found to be well-suited to address the changing roles the population experienced during the mid-twentieth century. In her book A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle successfully employs science fiction within young adult literature and uses it to address the concerns of a changing generation of young adult readers. Assuming that the purpose of young adult literature is not solely to entertain, but also to educate, the genre of science fiction is particularly appropriate for addressing a young audience

Throughout the novel Morrie puts a special emphasis on the importance of loving relationships with those you care about. He even believes that people must “love each other or parish” (Albom 149). Though to most this assertion may seem incongruous, it really means that, to have a healthy, productive life, one must surround oneself with those that understand and love them that they understand and love in return. This theme is discussed in Meribah Abbott’s poem, “The Best Friend”. The poem describes the relationship between a dog and its crippled master. It exposes the importance of unconditional love in the last line when stating, “Ye taught me trust when man's dull logic failed” ( Abbott 11). This last line is undeniably the most important when attempting to describe the importance of loving relationships. It demonstrates how, by loving others, a person can improve upon themselves. Morrie also believed that love was what gave meaning to life.

Young girls are often stuck in a world of make believe, they are fed fairytales, dream up unimaginable views of reality and believe everyone will find their prince charming. This unrealistic perspective is formed through their experiences with different fairytales. As G.K. Chesterton tells the fairytale are a realistic world for children, “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten”. Fairytales lead these girls to believe that in order to find true love there is some sort of intense journey one must go on. This idea of a journey for love has created a specific ideology for what love is and how to achieve it. In the text Beauty and the Beast by Madame Le Prince

Beauty’s role in beauty and the beast glorifies her as a sweet girl who can find light in any darkness. She prefers to move forward in life rather than sulk in misery. Being such a positive female character allows her to fall in love with a man who is not of the society standards of handsome, name Beast. She was more intent on focusing on what he had to offer as a person. Karen Rowe states in “Feminism and Fairy Tales” “such alluring fantasies gloss the heroine's inability to act self-assertively, total reliance on external rescues, willing bondage to father and prince, and her restriction to hearth and nursery” (Rowe). The heroine being beauty in this case, doesn't have opinions or rights because her character wasn't created to. Rowe believes that fairytales have paved the way for our expectations towards what women and men should be doing and what romance is. Rowe argues that “These "domestic fictions" reduce fairy tales to sentimental clichés, while they continue to glamorize a heroine's traditional yearning for romantic love which culminates in marriage” (Rowe). Beauty’s character found herself in these “sentimental cliches” with her

Many of the troubles that modern teenagers go through are shown throughout the movie. There are troubles with relationships, trying to get each others attention and understand what they both like and want. There are troubles with parents, high school, having low self-esteem, never feeling good enough and all the horrible things in the world. In the Grim version the spell is broken by true love in general but in order to break the spell in Beastly it is broken by true loves kiss. In Beauty and the Beast she just has to tell the beast how she feels and the spell is broken.