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Lord Asriel In 'Northern Lights'
"Humans can't see something without wanting to destroy it. That is original sin. I am going to find the source of Dust and destroy it. Death is going to die." In the novel Northern Lights Lord Asriel is the father of Lyra and a man obsessed with creating the perfect world. Lord Asriel is portrayed as a fierce-natured, cold-hearted and seemingly unapproachable person, who will do anything to achieve his goals. I respect and admire Lord Asriel for he will hesitate at nothing to accomplish what he believes is right (even if it means taking innocent lives or even his own). In this piece of writing I will show you Lord Asriel’s characteristics and his story From the start Lord Asriel was a …show more content…
Asriel is saved by his daughter Lyra who had secretly seen the Master put the poison in his cup. Then Asriel raised money for a expedition into the north using photograms of Dust and a city in the sky, as well as the extra shock value of a decapitated head that he said was the explorer Stanislaus Grumman’s. But when he arrives at Svalbard he is imprisoned by the bear warriors called the panserbjorne led by Iofur Raknison by orders of the Gobblers (General Oblation Board), one of Asriel’s enemies and which is led by his ex-lover Mrs Coulter. Asriel waited in hospitable conditions for a child to perform intercision on, to open a window into the northern lights with the help of witches. After some time a child did arrive: Roger Parslow who was brought by Lyra ,who didn’t know what Asriel wanted. Taking Roger Parslow Asriel performed intercision and entered the Aurora. Lord Asriel’s daemon is a black spotted Snow Leopard called Stelmaria, his daemon reflects his personality. Asriel is a man who will achieve his goals no matter at what cost even if it means he will perish. Asriel’s goals are not greedy or self-centered but rather to make the world become what he thinks is the perfect place for humanity (part of this is by destroying human’s original sin). Asriel

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