Aaron Scavuzzo Mrs. Marcakis Period 1 December 15, 2017 Laughter is the World’s greatest cure “So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry.” ― Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury wrote Something Wicked This Way Comes in 1962. It is a dark fantasy about how a carnival operates on the fear of its customers. Many attractions at the carnival symbolized deeper meaning into how it truly operates. The symbols distinctively illustrate acceptance leads to happiness and happiness then defeats evil. Three symbols include the Dust Witch, the mirror maze and the carousel. One of the main carnival influencers is the Dust Witch.
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The mirrors then shatter. At the very first chapters of the book, Charles was not a courageous charter and did not accept himself for who he really was. However, when Will told him that he loved him and accepted him the way he was, Charles began to believe in his self. Because of this, Charles was able to laugh at the mirror maze and was able to destroy it. “Every glass threw javelins of light which invisibly pierced, sank deep, found heart, soul, lungs, to frost the veins, cut nerves, send Will to ruin, paralyze and then kick-football heart… At which Charles Halloway opened his eyes and saw himself and the others like himself and his son behind holding him, the flame trembling, the tears trembling on his face, and suddenly, as before, the image of the Witch, the memory of the library, defeat for one, victory for another, swam before him, mixed with sound of rifle, shot, flight of marked bullet, surge of fleeing crowd… and let the loudest sound of all free. The Witch, if she were alive, would have known that sound, and died again” (pg. 258). Once again Charles shows the capacity to overcome his fear of becoming and being old destroys the sardonic glass. Charles accepts how old he truly is and does not care how the world perceives him as himself …show more content…
Then he took the boys out and he hit the control box one or two times until it broke and scattered fitful lightnings. Will laughing and singing and Jim giving answer line by line, as they breasted the waves of dry stubble toward a town where they might live another few years across from each other. Then, as the moon watched, the three of them together left the wilderness behind and walked into the town” (pg. 290). As the boys both laugh and sing they learn that their acceptance leads to their happiness causing them to gleefully walk away in the distance. Without them knowing that overcoming their temptations would result in defeating evil, then they never would have been able to walk away. The way the symbols illustrate the idea that acceptance then leads to happiness which overall destroys negativity, is represented throughout a lot of objects and characters in the book. The Dust Witch represents and symbolizes death, making her desperately need to feed off of people’s fear of dying and becoming older. The Mirror Maze symbolizes a person’s greatest fear and how they should constantly feel the need to fix it. Finally, the carousel symbolizes one’s inner temptations
The mirrors then shatter. At the very first chapters of the book, Charles was not a courageous charter and did not accept himself for who he really was. However, when Will told him that he loved him and accepted him the way he was, Charles began to believe in his self. Because of this, Charles was able to laugh at the mirror maze and was able to destroy it. “Every glass threw javelins of light which invisibly pierced, sank deep, found heart, soul, lungs, to frost the veins, cut nerves, send Will to ruin, paralyze and then kick-football heart… At which Charles Halloway opened his eyes and saw himself and the others like himself and his son behind holding him, the flame trembling, the tears trembling on his face, and suddenly, as before, the image of the Witch, the memory of the library, defeat for one, victory for another, swam before him, mixed with sound of rifle, shot, flight of marked bullet, surge of fleeing crowd… and let the loudest sound of all free. The Witch, if she were alive, would have known that sound, and died again” (pg. 258). Once again Charles shows the capacity to overcome his fear of becoming and being old destroys the sardonic glass. Charles accepts how old he truly is and does not care how the world perceives him as himself …show more content…
Then he took the boys out and he hit the control box one or two times until it broke and scattered fitful lightnings. Will laughing and singing and Jim giving answer line by line, as they breasted the waves of dry stubble toward a town where they might live another few years across from each other. Then, as the moon watched, the three of them together left the wilderness behind and walked into the town” (pg. 290). As the boys both laugh and sing they learn that their acceptance leads to their happiness causing them to gleefully walk away in the distance. Without them knowing that overcoming their temptations would result in defeating evil, then they never would have been able to walk away. The way the symbols illustrate the idea that acceptance then leads to happiness which overall destroys negativity, is represented throughout a lot of objects and characters in the book. The Dust Witch represents and symbolizes death, making her desperately need to feed off of people’s fear of dying and becoming older. The Mirror Maze symbolizes a person’s greatest fear and how they should constantly feel the need to fix it. Finally, the carousel symbolizes one’s inner temptations