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His Dark Materials has occasioned controversy, primarily among some Christian groups. Cynthia Grenier, in the Catholic Culture, said: "In the world of Pullman, God Himself (the Authority) is a merciless tyrant. His Church is an instrument of oppression, and true heroism consists of overthrowing both".
- 1995–2000
- Fantasy novel
- His Dark Materials is a retelling of Paradise Lost. Milton’s epic poem from the 17th century tells the story of Adam and Eve, and of Satan’s banishment from heaven.
- The title The Golden Compass was a mistake. Pullman first called his series “The Golden Compasses,” a reference to a line from Milton’s epic poem: “The golden compasses, prepared / In God's eternal store, to circumscribe / The universe, and all created things."
- A Leonardo Da Vinci painting inspired Pullman's daemons. In Pullman’s story characters are accompanied by a daemon, an animal that reflects their inner nature.
- Parts of the U.S. edition of The Amber Spyglass were censored. The biggest change, occurring in Chapter 33, concerns a paragraph detailing Lyra’s sexual awakening.
Nov 5, 2019 · Nov 5, 2019, 2:56 PM PST. Daphne Keene stars as Lyra on HBO's new series "His Dark Materials." HBO. HBO and BBC's coproduction of "His Dark Materials" based on a book trilogy of the same name by ...
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Oct 3, 2019 · Pullman, a self-described “Church of England atheist,” takes Catholicism to task for many of its tenets and, in His Dark Materials, openly declares Original Sin as one of the hallmark strengths of the human race. Naturally, controversy followed him as his thoughts do constitute a sort of heresy. Subsequently, Pullman would become more ...
Oct 10, 2020 · In the case of His Dark Materials, it wasn’t until I’d got halfway through the first part, Northern Lights, that I realised I was writing a story about leaving childhood behind, or the journey ...
The story of His Dark Materials follows the journey of a young girl named Lyra Belacqua, who is raised in the hallowed halls of Jordan College, Oxford, in a world where every human possesses a “daemon”. Lyra’s destiny becomes intertwined with that of her father, Lord Asriel, an explorer and scholar, and her mother, Marisa Coulter, a high ...
Oct 25, 2019 · Why His Dark Materials is the fantasy epic for our times. After a flop film, Philip Pullman’s trilogy of novels have now been made into a BBC/HBO TV series – and its fairytale story could not ...
