In The Night Circus: Illusions
“In a world where everything is an illusion, how can one know what is real?” In the Night circus, it is quite hard to discern this.
Within the text, in the simplest of terms, an illusion is manipulating an environment or someone’s vision/view. Finding the reality of this novel lies with the characters and their relationships, emotions and their reactions to their experiences and how these things can be altered by a person's perspective and their knowledge.
The game is an illusion because of how it was created. Marco was picked to complement and contrast Celia, this is a manipulation of their environment, making their situation an illusion. The circus is the venue for the game, a way for Celia and Marco to show their skills and varied techniques in their respective illusions. …show more content…
Physical illusions are made by warping the appearance of an object (In her audition for the circus Celia manipulates Marco’s notebook into a bird) while mental illusions are warping people’s view of their surroundings and their perspective (Marco does this when he shows Celia the future plan of one of the rooms in Chandresh’s house and when he manipulates the city to appear like a forest for Isobel).
The realities of the Night Circus are the constants, that Celia and Marco are opponents and that they love each other. Even though their emotions are a product of circumstance it doesn’t negate the reality of their feelings for one another. There is genuine emotion in their reactions and how they feel.
They have been manipulated to play the game, by their respective fatherly roles, but their feelings naturally developed from a sense of competitivity to
Within the text, in the simplest of terms, an illusion is manipulating an environment or someone’s vision/view. Finding the reality of this novel lies with the characters and their relationships, emotions and their reactions to their experiences and how these things can be altered by a person's perspective and their knowledge.
The game is an illusion because of how it was created. Marco was picked to complement and contrast Celia, this is a manipulation of their environment, making their situation an illusion. The circus is the venue for the game, a way for Celia and Marco to show their skills and varied techniques in their respective illusions. …show more content…
Physical illusions are made by warping the appearance of an object (In her audition for the circus Celia manipulates Marco’s notebook into a bird) while mental illusions are warping people’s view of their surroundings and their perspective (Marco does this when he shows Celia the future plan of one of the rooms in Chandresh’s house and when he manipulates the city to appear like a forest for Isobel).
The realities of the Night Circus are the constants, that Celia and Marco are opponents and that they love each other. Even though their emotions are a product of circumstance it doesn’t negate the reality of their feelings for one another. There is genuine emotion in their reactions and how they feel.
They have been manipulated to play the game, by their respective fatherly roles, but their feelings naturally developed from a sense of competitivity to