The Night Circus

Okay, big book, read it a while ago, time for a mental recap! In all seriousness, this book at the time was one I kind of forced myself to read, I didn’t really have the time but I’m glad I took the time. It’s magic Romeo and Juliet.

Okay but really though I find it interesting how this book is so much like so many other stories in plot. Example. It’s obviously got the Romeo and Juliet connection, but you can also connect the story to something like The Kingsman in which we have mentors of whom take kids, or in the movies sense young adults, and train them to compete. You can even make the comparison between the two in how they feel this connection to each other to the most recent Star Wars films in how Rey and Kylo Ren often feel this strong connection to each other.

Now none of this means that any of the subjects took from the book, but I do find it interesting to look at how these stories can find these connections to other stories. No more common is this then with Greek Myths in which this one connects to the same story that Romeo and Juliet connects to, Pyramus and Thisbe. In this story, we have to lovers who are kept from each other, but then manage to escape and plan to meet in the forest, but when one appears to be killed, the other kills themselves of grief. Then the other comes back and kills themselves. It’s very overdramatic, but in the sense of how we have two character supposed to be each other’s opposite turned lovers we have that connection.