kittykat125
07-25-2010, 11:12 PM
Was anyone else confused about Lord Asriel? I don't get his attitude towards Dust. He says he wants to "destroy" it and end death + misery, but why is the church against him doing that? Because he's trying to get into another world? Why does he in the subsequent series try to preserve it, and is compared to Satan (Milton's)?
Sparknotes says, "For Lord Asriel, the story of Adam and Eve is the story of the beginning of human experience." I don't really see textual proof for this, except that he says Dust is physical proof of progress from innocence to experience, but that does not equate to A/E story being the beginning of "human experience." Maybe I'm missing something or is this sparknote a bit off?? This quote may be Pullman's view of A/E, but not necessarily Asriel's.
Overall, what i really don't get is why he changes from a completely anti-dust stance to pro-dust in the future novels. (No, I don't have time to read them for now.) He even says he wants to "stifle dust forever" to Coulter.
Sparknotes says, "For Lord Asriel, the story of Adam and Eve is the story of the beginning of human experience." I don't really see textual proof for this, except that he says Dust is physical proof of progress from innocence to experience, but that does not equate to A/E story being the beginning of "human experience." Maybe I'm missing something or is this sparknote a bit off?? This quote may be Pullman's view of A/E, but not necessarily Asriel's.
Overall, what i really don't get is why he changes from a completely anti-dust stance to pro-dust in the future novels. (No, I don't have time to read them for now.) He even says he wants to "stifle dust forever" to Coulter.