77 pages • 2 hours read
Erin MorgensternThe Night Circus
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Important Quotes
“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change”
(Prospero, Page 24)
This quotation sums up one of the novel’s central themes: the ability to challenge and change anything, even one’s fate, through sheer force of will.
“People see what they want to see. And, in most cases, what they are told to see”
(Prospero, Page 33)
Prospero delivers this line to Celia. Here, Prospero reveals another one of the novel’s central themes: how what one sees is not always the truth and that people are often more than willing to see what they are told to.
“People are naïve about such things ....and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless”
(Marco, Page 43)
Here, Marco discusses people’s attitude to magic, suggesting that its easier for people to conceptualize it as “evil,” rather than attempting to understand it.
