The Golden Compass Group at eNotes

How do you enter the Magisterium's basement

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:23:05 PST

How do you enter the Magisterium's basement

What daemons do they have and what are their names?

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:33:05 PST

What daemons do they have and what are their names?

There are several important conflicts in "The Golden Compass."...

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:19:04 PST

There are several important conflicts in "The Golden Compass." What makes this book so great and interesting is the way they interweave—and the way they shift around. There's a conflict between generations (Lyra and the kids/the adults). There's a conflict between self-determination and authority, as happens when the children's daemons are severed from them. There's a conflict between the existing order and change, though that...

The conflict in The Golden Compass is simple, it is a battle between...

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:32:21 PST

The conflict in The Golden Compass is simple, it is a battle between good and evil, with the fate of the universe at stake."This type of conflict between free-thinking freedom fighters and authoritarian control is common in fantasy and science fantasy stories."Lyra Belacqua, the young hero, unexpectedly finds herself in a quest for the truth, on the side of good, about a mysterious "dust" that connects all people and...

What is the conflict in "The Golden Compass"?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:19:39 PST

What is the conflict in "The Golden Compass"?

In the 3rd, the children kill god...(impossible) and are forever free...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:45:14 PST

In the 3rd, the children kill god...(impossible) and are forever free and happy. don't read the third!

religious institutions

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:49:07 PST

what commentary does the golden compass make about the church?

As far as technology, Philip Pullman creates an interesting dichotomy in...

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:31:54 PST

As far as technology, Philip Pullman creates an interesting dichotomy in The Golden Compass. The technology employed by any inhabitants of Lyra's Oxford seems to be simultaneously crude, simple, magical, and inexplicably complex. All of their technology somehow resembles technology from our world, however, the two seemingly similar technologies are usually quite different. For example, the Alethiometer itself is similar to a clock and a...

What are similarities between Lyra's world (from the Golden Compass)and...

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:26:35 PST

What are similarities between Lyra's world (from the Golden Compass)and our world in the categorys of education and technology?