Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials By Greg Krehbiel

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His Dark Materials is a trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. It is. engaging, witty and imaginative, and features some …

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Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
By Greg Krehbiel
Cited on: http://www.crowhill.net/journeyman/Vol1No1/Darkmaterials.html
His Dark Materials is a trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. It is
engaging, witty and imaginative, and features some very likeable characters. Unfortunately, the worldview
is sophomoric and blatantly anti-Christian.
In The Golden Compass we follow Lyra Belacqua in her seemingly orphaned romps around Oxford. It
doesn’t take long to realize that this Oxford is not our Oxford - not that I’ve ever been there in any
event - meaning that Lyra’s Oxford is in another world, where some things are the same and some
are very different.
The most striking difference in Lyra’s world is that everyone has a daemon, which is a kind of
Id/familiar/pet. Until a child is grown, the daemon can change shape at will - a mouse one
moment, a tiger the next - but it takes a definite form somewhere around adolescence, and the fixed
form of the daemon is some kind of reflection of the inner self of the … what, host? Owner? ….
Whatever.
Of course I was disappointed that these creatures were called “…