Shadow Of Morality In 'Wizard Of The Earthsea'

Shadow of Morality
Each person of us summoned to life by God and carry a different journey in this world. But our task was the same, to surrender to the will of God, to fight fate and love it. Life is full of epic failure, mistake, painful, also our own shadow, and evil intent. Some sort, we fear to open ourselves, to enlarge the soul to the world. We prefer to stay insecure, and getting distracted by many things in life. Yet, what our soul really want, what life want from us, and again we will return to our journey. This lesson, meaning of life, always repeated in many fantasy novels, a reflection of life and the shadow of humanity. One among the novel calls Wizard of The Earthsea, written by Ursula K.Le Guin which is one example. The story about the boy whose name’s Ged on his journey to become the greatest wizard, and it share a similar reflection shadow of humanity. Le Guin tries to show us a meaning of the shadow that it’s reflection our life. The shadows are metaphors for the personal traits …show more content…
First, in three chapters, Ged is a qualify special person who has a talent, a background, and a power. He learns magic from his aunt, even taunted her in her blinded spell, and so eager to learn, impatient when he is with Ogion, and he has a temper while in Roke when he faces his rival Jasper. Thus, he is too pride, it is something good, but also it is something he must be aware of because he turns out to lose control himself and his power. He overuses his power and it turns him ill, he so prides that he can’t deny that he doesn’t have the knowledge and he read the book and summon the spirit of the death which later harm him when he has a duel with Jasper. And later on, in chapter 6 and 7 even after he recover and aware of the shadow, he powerful enough to face the dragon, but he is so coward and fear to face the shadow, and he runs away from