The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus shows up out of the blue. Nothing is announced before it. Simply said, it is there now where it wasn’t yesterday. The canvas tents with black-and-white stripes inside offer a completely unique experience filled with stunning wonders. Le Cirque des Rêves is its name, and it’s only accessible at night.
Behind the scenes, however, a furious contest is taking place between Celia and Marco, two young magicians who have been raised and schooled by their erratic teachers specifically for this purpose. They both had no idea that this was a game where only one could survive. Despite the risks, Celia and Marco quickly fall in love, sparking a chain reaction of perilous consequences and putting everyone’s lives—from the performers to the audience—in jeopardy.
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern tells the story of a string of incidents that occur inside the walls of a travelling circus that only operates at night. Although the location shifts frequently as the circus travels, most of the book is set in London, where one of the main characters, Marco, resides. It also primarily takes place at night in situations surrounded by wonderful illusions and strange magic.
The story is told primarily from the perspectives of Marco and Celia, two competitors who are pitted against one another in a magic-bound competition. However, as a result of their outrageous efforts to outdo one another and the mental anguish the competition causes them, the two ultimately fall in love. Because of this, Celia’s character can occasionally be quite closed off from people and closed-minded; nonetheless, her brave curiosity and strength help show how her character develops throughout the book.
However, the love and concern he has for others, especially Celia, shows the depths of his character and what he regards as most essential in his life. Marco, on the other hand, spends most of the book trying to find a place where he genuinely belongs and is welcomed. The primary conflict in this book is the fact that there can only be one victor—or, more accurately, one survivor—in the rivalry that Marco and Celia have been engaged in since they were young. As a result, the two must decide what they are willing to give up for one another and whether they are willing to risk jeopardizing the future of the circus, on which so many people rely.
In order to better understand the primary conflict of the book, it is important to note that Celia and Marco are pitted against one another in a competition at the beginning of the book when both of them are still young, promising students of magic and illusion. Both of the two young pupils have a difficult past because Celia lost her mother to suicide and Marco was an orphan. Up until the competition’s toll on one another started to destroy them, finding purpose in their magic training for the tournament seemed to help them deal with everything.
