By placing the fairy tale in a real time and place Gregory Maguire allows the reader to develop a completely different point view compared that of the fairy tale of Snow White fairytale. Using this technique, Maguire makes his novel seem to come to life. The effect is enhanced when he uses real historical people such as Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. The reader also does not know what to expect while reading because although it is just a story like real life, anything can happen. Unlike fairy tales where the good guys always win. The novel also takes a life of its own giving everything mentioned in the novel life. It gives inanimate objects life (the stones). The other characters, who are in fact alive, transform within their lives as do real people. One of the themes of the novel is the transformation of characters lives. Each character has transformed or is undergoing a transformation through the first half of the novel.
One way the story becomes more real is giving all the characters real lives. As in real life people go through changes that others can relate to. For example, Bianca starts off as a young girl at the age of seven who is completely attached to her father Vincent de Nevada young naive and no knows nothing of the world except life on the farm which she realizes, this is world enough for me (p. 106). Bianca then goes through a change when she is cared for by the dwarves. She undergoes both a physical and metal transformation. Towards the end of the first half of the novel Bianca is seventeen and has obviously gone through some physical changes. Her menstrual cycle is the shows her transformation into womanhood. Allowing the reader to be aware of Biancas transformation makes her more of a real person than just a character in the novel. Maguire makes it easier for the reader to see Bianca as a real person. And if the reader is female the reader can actually relate to Bianca's transformation. Her mental transformation has only begun.
The stones are great example of what Maguire does to give the characters life. The stones undergo changes as well going from being personified rocks to holding life as humans do. They go through more changes as the story goes on and the more they interact with humans (specifically Bianca) the more humanized they become. In the beginning of the novel the stones/dwarves are unaware themselves of what they are. They do not know whether they are beasts or men (p. 27). They have no names, which is an important quality of being human being. The stones/dwarves believe that their lives last longer than that of human because the hardly talk, speaking uses us up, speeds us up (p. 28). Later in the novel they become more humanized as their characteristics appear while talking and being near Bianca. They are shocked to know that they are becoming human We used our hands-hand. Hah-and we carried (p. 141). They soon develop hands beards, eyes, etc. They even develop the ability to speak. As they introduce themselves to Bianca they name themselves indicating the birth of their humanization. Names are an important aspect of being human. When Catholics/Christens are born and they are named it is usually during their baptism marking their spiritual birth. By naming themselves the stones transform to dwarves, though still keeping their stone qualities. Their names resemble this Blindeye, Heartless, Mute, Bitter etc (p. 143).
By placing the fairy tale in a real time and place Gregory Maguire allows the reader to develop a completely different point view compared that of the fairy tale of Snow White fairytale. Using this technique, Maguire makes his novel seem to come to life. The effect is enhanced when he uses real historical people such as Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. The reader also does not know what to expect while reading because although it is just a story like real life, anything can happen. Unlike fairy tales where the good guys always win. The novel also takes a life of its own giving everything mentioned in the novel life. It gives inanimate objects life (the stones). The other characters, who are in fact alive, transform within their lives as do real people. One of the themes of the novel is the transformation of characters lives. Each character has transformed or is undergoing a transformation through the first half of the novel.
One way the story becomes more real is giving all the characters real lives. As in real life people go through changes that others can relate to. For example, Bianca starts off as a young girl at the age of seven who is completely attached to her father Vincent de Nevada young naive and no knows nothing of the world except life on the farm which she realizes, this is world enough for me (p. 106). Bianca then goes through a change when she is cared for by the dwarves. She undergoes both a physical and metal transformation. Towards the end of the first half of the novel Bianca is seventeen and has obviously gone through some physical changes. Her menstrual cycle is the shows her transformation into womanhood. Allowing the reader to be aware of Biancas transformation makes her more of a real person than just a character in the novel. Maguire makes it easier for the reader to see Bianca as a real person. And if the reader is female the reader can actually relate to Bianca's transformation. Her mental transformation has only begun.
The stones are great example of what Maguire does to give the characters life. The stones undergo changes as well going from being personified rocks to holding life as humans do. They go through more changes as the story goes on and the more they interact with humans (specifically Bianca) the more humanized they become. In the beginning of the novel the stones/dwarves are unaware themselves of what they are. They do not know whether they are beasts or men (p. 27). They have no names, which is an important quality of being human being. The stones/dwarves believe that their lives last longer than that of human because the hardly talk, speaking uses us up, speeds us up (p. 28). Later in the novel they become more humanized as their characteristics appear while talking and being near Bianca. They are shocked to know that they are becoming human We used our hands-hand. Hah-and we carried (p. 141). They soon develop hands beards, eyes, etc. They even develop the ability to speak. As they introduce themselves to Bianca they name themselves indicating the birth of their humanization. Names are an important aspect of being human. When Catholics/Christens are born and they are named it is usually during their baptism marking their spiritual birth. By naming themselves the stones transform to dwarves, though still keeping their stone qualities. Their names resemble this Blindeye, Heartless, Mute, Bitter etc (p. 143).
By placing the fairy tale in a real time and place Gregory Maguire allows the reader to develop a completely different point view compared that of the fairy tale of Snow White fairytale. Using this technique, Maguire makes his novel seem to come to life. The effect is enhanced when he uses real historical people such as Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. The reader also does not know what to expect while reading because although it is just a story like real life, anything can happen. Unlike fairy tales where the good guys always win. The novel also takes a life of its own giving everything mentioned in the novel life. It gives inanimate objects life (the stones). The other characters, who are in fact alive, transform within their lives as do real people. One of the themes of the novel is the transformation of characters lives. Each character has transformed or is undergoing a transformation through the first half of the novel.
One way the story becomes more real is giving all the characters real lives. As in real life people go through changes that others can relate to. For example, Bianca starts off as a young girl at the age of seven who is completely attached to her father Vincent de Nevada young naive and no knows nothing of the world except life on the farm which she realizes, this is world enough for me (p. 106). Bianca then goes through a change when she is cared for by the dwarves. She undergoes both a physical and metal transformation. Towards the end of the first half of the novel Bianca is seventeen and has obviously gone through some physical changes. Her menstrual cycle is the shows her transformation into womanhood. Allowing the reader to be aware of Biancas transformation makes her more of a real person than just a character in the novel. Maguire makes it easier for the reader to see Bianca as a real person. And if the reader is female the reader can actually relate to Bianca's transformation. Her mental transformation has only begun.
The stones are great example of what Maguire does to give the characters life. The stones undergo changes as well going from being personified rocks to holding life as humans do. They go through more changes as the story goes on and the more they interact with humans (specifically Bianca) the more humanized they become. In the beginning of the novel the stones/dwarves are unaware themselves of what they are. They do not know whether they are beasts or men (p. 27). They have no names, which is an important quality of being human being. The stones/dwarves believe that their lives last longer than that of human because the hardly talk, speaking uses us up, speeds us up (p. 28). Later in the novel they become more humanized as their characteristics appear while talking and being near Bianca. They are shocked to know that they are becoming human We used our hands-hand. Hah-and we carried (p. 141). They soon develop hands beards, eyes, etc. They even develop the ability to speak. As they introduce themselves to Bianca they name themselves indicating the birth of their humanization. Names are an important aspect of being human. When Catholics/Christens are born and they are named it is usually during their baptism marking their spiritual birth. By naming themselves the stones transform to dwarves, though still keeping their stone qualities. Their names resemble this Blindeye, Heartless, Mute, Bitter etc (p. 143).
By placing the fairy tale in a real time and place Gregory Maguire allows the reader to develop a completely different point view compared that of the fairy tale of Snow White fairytale. Using this technique, Maguire makes his novel seem to come to life. The effect is enhanced when he uses real historical people such as Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. The reader also does not know what to expect while reading because although it is just a story like real life, anything can happen. Unlike fairy tales where the good guys always win. The novel also takes a life of its own giving everything mentioned in the novel life. It gives inanimate objects life (the stones). The other characters, who are in fact alive, transform within their lives as do real people. One of the themes of the novel is the transformation of characters lives. Each character has transformed or is undergoing a transformation through the first half of the novel.
One way the story becomes more real is giving all the characters real lives. As in real life people go through changes that others can relate to. For example, Bianca starts off as a young girl at the age of seven who is completely attached to her father Vincent de Nevada young naive and no knows nothing of the world except life on the farm which she realizes, this is world enough for me (p. 106). Bianca then goes through a change when she is cared for by the dwarves. She undergoes both a physical and metal transformation. Towards the end of the first half of the novel Bianca is seventeen and has obviously gone through some physical changes. Her menstrual cycle is the shows her transformation into womanhood. Allowing the reader to be aware of Biancas transformation makes her more of a real person than just a character in the novel. Maguire makes it easier for the reader to see Bianca as a real person. And if the reader is female the reader can actually relate to Bianca's transformation. Her mental transformation has only begun.
The stones are great example of what Maguire does to give the characters life. The stones undergo changes as well going from being personified rocks to holding life as humans do. They go through more changes as the story goes on and the more they interact with humans (specifically Bianca) the more humanized they become. In the beginning of the novel the stones/dwarves are unaware themselves of what they are. They do not know whether they are beasts or men (p. 27). They have no names, which is an important quality of being human being. The stones/dwarves believe that their lives last longer than that of human because the hardly talk, speaking uses us up, speeds us up (p. 28). Later in the novel they become more humanized as their characteristics appear while talking and being near Bianca. They are shocked to know that they are becoming human We used our hands-hand. Hah-and we carried (p. 141). They soon develop hands beards, eyes, etc. They even develop the ability to speak. As they introduce themselves to Bianca they name themselves indicating the birth of their humanization. Names are an important aspect of being human. When Catholics/Christens are born and they are named it is usually during their baptism marking their spiritual birth. By naming themselves the stones transform to dwarves, though still keeping their stone qualities. Their names resemble this Blindeye, Heartless, Mute, Bitter etc (p. 143).
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