Origins of the Shadow in A Wizard of Earthsea

The origin of Earth Elves, the protagonist of "The Hell's Witch", the protagonist of Ursula K. LeGuin, erroneously releases powerful shadow creatures through pride and malicious behavior, and the shadow is taken anywhere It was. After not killing Ged for the first time, he learned that the only way to destroy the shadow is to find that name. What Ged has to recognize is that the shadow is caused by evil within him. In addition, the shadow is not completely evil, and the god can actually derive power from it.

Le Gyun, Ursula Earth Elf This book is a fantasy novel about Sparrowhawk as a journey to the young elves of the earth. He studied magic from Gontt's teacher and then relaxed the world's shadow. He traveled from the archipelago (like the Pacific Islander) to the Scandinavian region of Scandinavia. This book covers the fields of magic, dragon and spirit. This book will provide you a detailed map of the known Earth world, if you have the perseverance to decide where you are in the world through each island you use it can do. Otherwise, the map is wonderful to see. Jack · Park House, 2020

Modern writers have introduced "Earth Elf" to the idea of ​​"Sorcerer School" later known as the book of the "Harry Potter" series, and also advertised a boy wizard appearing in "Harry Potter". Analogy Critics also commented that the basic premise of the "Underwater Elf" which is the enemy of a talented boy who went to school of wizards and had a close relationship with him is also the premise of Harry Potter did. Like the scars that Harry Potter left from Voldemort, as long as the shadow is approaching him, Ged also received a scar from the shadow. As far as the analogy is concerned, Le Guin says that JK Rowling does not think "to lower himself", but Rolling's book praised so-called originality and Rowling could have been to her is. My doubt is that critics consider the first book to be very ingenious. She has many advantages, but originality is not one of them.

The story of adaptation of two stories was also made. In 2005, the channel of science fiction broadcasted the original mini - play called "Legend of the Earth". It is based on "Sea Elf" and "Atoum Tomb". Le Guin expressed a strong dissatisfaction with the result in the article published in the salon. She has chosen to cast a "grumpy white child" as Ged (red brown skin in the book) series, choose to write "not white sea" and choose to write a character that is not white Ignoring the story of. Commentary on the core of the book "Fantasy Ultimate Encyclopedia" also expresses this view, the commentary is that the Earth's ocean legend "completely ignores Lejin's novel" and "all subtleness of the book, nuance and aesthetics Cut out ". Let's insert a boring cliché, a painful stereotype, a very popular 'epic' war