Lady of the Trillium | Techniques
The image of balance structures the novel, set in the two realms of Ruwenda and Labornok and organized as a quest for unity, or balance, between opposites. Motifs within the quest represent related dualisms — male and female, reason and intuition, science and magic, nature and culture, and nurturing against destruction. The swamps, hills, and mountains extend from Orogastus's Tower, a monument to the good and evil in human knowledge and prowess, to the hidden places — remote mountains, swamps, mires, ice caves — where nature's mysteries survive. Even the mires themselves — the...
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