The Golden Compass: Daemons

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and experience with "daemons".

In the book "The Golden Compass", daemons are the most interesting personification of spirits and create a powerful image and striking experience for the readers. The daemons or the spirits goes through the transition in a similar manner as the human soul goes through, from the complicated emotional state to a more mature state. In the book it is also reflected that the daemons goes through the complex immature to a mature stage where in the adult mature stage the daemon then becomes and takes on a form of an animal that is representative of the inner traits of the individual's counterpart. Through this representation, Pullman mirrors the very important element f human life and that is how the inner souls are perceived in reality and how the mechanics of daemons works. Daemons or spirits can be bad and good and that is representative of the inner personality of the individual that can care, love, deceive, torture and betray.

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inner personality that the characters behold. Like, daemons can be in the form of monkey, snakes, rats, cats and many other small animals, each representative of the type of character the person endures.

In fact, Pullman here tries to explain through his characters and specifically daemons that every individual is blessed or cursed with a daemon that is very much the mirror image of what is inside the individual. And no other person has the force to get in touch with other person's daemon. This is against Christian belief where it holds that spirit leaves the body of the individual only when he or she dies. Where as this theme of daemon holds that living individuals have spirits in ...

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