Wyrd
This essay will discuss the novel wryd. It will explore some of the concepts
that are found in the novel and attempt to extend the issues to a point at
which they become more clear, and prove the assertion that, just as is a
fast moving narrative that spans continents and ages, it is a novel of ideas.
Wyrd was, in length, a short to medium novel that was written by Sue Gough.
Briefly, it was the story of Berengaria, Saladin's daughter and wife of King
Richard. After her husbands death, she was moved to a French nunnery with her
handmaiden and son, the prince (incognito). There she kept an explicit and wise
diary, recording the events in her life. She founded a healing order, and
invented ...
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but the Abbe did not know
this and told Berengaria the 'news' of his demise. Unable to cope with such a
revelation, she died and was entombed, as a mummy, with her book beneath the
priory. Found by two archaeologists in modern times, her book was recovered and
her tomb destroyed. Sent to a group of Australian women (in order to keep it
out of the claws of the modern De Ville, Professor Horniman), the book found
it's way into the hands and heart of Trace, a street kid from Sydney, come
north as part of a modern children's crusade. Unwilling to return to the slums
of Kings Cross, Trace had found her way to the women's homes and beguiled
herse-lf of them. To conclude the story, Professor Horniman attempted to steal
the book, and it was destroyed. All of this was spoken by one Dr Renouf (a
possible future Trace and modern day Berengaria), in an attempt to draw
together the warring factions of the middle east.
One of the most primary themes in the book, apparent even in the summary, ...
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diary,
are all a means by which these events can occur: change and exploration of
possibilities is vital to allow continuation. Who controls the past controls
the future only in that the past is part of the present and the present is what
controls future events.
Another theme, discussed mainly in the book's feminist undertones, is one that
is heavily discursive of the rules of society. Religious dogma, meaningl ess
legal writings, unwritten rules placing different people in situations beyond
their control, and the concept of elitism -- our class system, are all
discussed, if briefly, in the texts. Non conformity was all but preached: it
clearly stated that the rules of society, the laws ...
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