The Magicians

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Believe it or not, I watched this entire series after watching an episode for this weeks assignment. There are a lot of moral issues and questioning in this series. One of the main ones has to do with the story plot of Reynard, Julia, and Kady. After Reynard the trickster god kills, rapes, and eats several groups of witches who are trying to reach Persephone (Our Lady Underground,) Julia and Kady set out to kill him. By doing this Julia aborts Reynard's child, which causes her to lose her shade (morality and care.) This results in her ruining the killing of the beast to use him to kill Reynard. Finally when Julia and Kady have the opportunity to kill Reynard, Persephone shows up and asks her to spare him because he is her son. This entire storyline covers so many moral issues: abortion, murder, using people as bait, and so on and so forth.

I found this story to be more relatable than the Harry Potter series. I also found that the characters in this story face a lot of decisions that can go against their morals or beliefs. One character Elliot, who is gay, marries a woman in a different world to help save magic in the real world. The questioning of beliefs and morals makes the story more interesting, engaging, and relatable.

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