Pierce expands the dream recounted by Jung into a story by giving it multidimensional characters and an easilyvisualized setting. She draws on myths and fairytales from different traditions for the creatures which inhabit her world; for example, vampires are called icari after the winged character, Icarus, from Greek mythology. The duarough, who lived underground and were closely associated with the earth, comes from Scandinavian myth.
Pierce also uses the familiar pattern of the quest, which is a theme that has long been common to both the oral and.....
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