Dec 30, 2009

A Wrinkle in Time | Techniques

In A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle employs extensive visual imagery and figurative language in order to make accessible the fantasy: time travel, expressed in the tesseract; metamorphosis, exemplified in Mrs. Whatsit's materialization and her later change into a figure which transcends the centaur on which it is based; kything; glasses which enable the wearer to see atoms rearranging themselves in otherwise solid-appearing matter; a disembodied brain which is an agent of evil.

Archetypes also are a major device in this novel. Meg must undergo the separation, ordeal, and reunification...