Summary Of The Night Circus By Erin Morgenstern

Throughout reading the novel The Night Circus, I noticed the similarities between this world of fiction and the world I currently reside in. This encouraged me to think about the type of person Erin Morgenstern must have been, and the place she must have been in while creating this novel. The references to older works of literature and cleaver use of word play implies that she is the type of person who has spent her while life reading; Someone who has a love for the craft that is writing, over all other activities. The inspiration for this book must have been from the authors she admired throughout her years. I personally adore the way she view the world as a predetermined game in which every decision is crucial to every aspect of our lives. Erin Morgenstern used her love of the written word to encourage the new generation to find the same love for adventure she established time and time again.
Erin Morgenstern gives off the impression that she is an unapologetic lover of all fine forms of adventure.
Her use of Shakespearean quotation and the heavy influences of the vignette format from novels such as Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman and The Prestige by Christopher Priest only encourage the notion of a unrealized obsession of adventure of mythic proportion. As I read further along in the novel, I learnt more and more about Erin Morgenstern’s hopes and dreams which are revealed with each passing chapter. A dream of finding a family that is nothing but accepting; a fantasy of being powerful enough to change her destiny; an unmet promise of discovering a all-consuming, requited love that can cheat fate. Dreams designed for the reader to relate to, and aim toward reaching, which is what I believe the book was created to do. Find dreamers like Erin Morgenstern and show them the tools she used to escape throughout her
life.
The amount of love that has clearly been placed into this book drew me to it. The view of a world that is predetermined has always been an idea that I can get behind. The idea of even the simplest choices such as crossing the left leg or right, or huge choices like moving to Europe or staying in your home town; they all lead to a destiny that cannot be changed. That lead to a fate that has been decided as the best you can get. The way Erin Morgenstern lays out her story jumps off the pages and grabs people’s minds by showing how we think the world is, and how she believes it to be.