The Weird Stone of Brisingamen

The novel is concerned with two children, Susan and Colin who have come to stay for the summer with Mr and Mrs Mossock on their farm. The farm is located on The Edge, a magical and mysterious place, as the mines at Alderly Edge leads to a secret underworld. It is an underworld of Wizards, Svarts, sleeping Knights and the darker evil forces of Nastrond. Colin and Susan soon discover that the moonstone that Susan has as a family heirloom, is in fact a magic, powerful talisman of evil. It has the power to awaken all forces of evil. Having lost his own magical stone, Cadellin, guardian of the sleeping knights finds himself in perilous danger. The Morrigan, a dark evil witch who lives in the human world as Selina Place, is given the precious stone by Grimnir. Together they try to call up the stones power but are deteriorated by the courage and power of Susan and Colin. The novel concludes with a bitter battle between the forces of good and evil, with Cadellin finally having ownership of the firefrost. With this power he scatters and destroys Grimnir, M

In conclusion, this novel depends largely on imagery to further our understanding of character, setting and the principal theme, good versus evil

The next section of this extended response will examine the contribution of imagery in defining those characters that are the epitome of moral goodness.

In the later stages of the novel, Colin and Susan were found, lost and bewildered in the tunnels of the underworld. We can see this in, “Tunnels entered and left the caves at all angles and levels. They turned, twisted, branched, forked, climbed, dropped and infrequently led nowhere.”

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