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Philip Pullman’s novel, Northern LightsThe bond between human and daemon offers to each, reciprocal protection, understanding and love and these are so strong that they make the human relationships seem pale by comparison
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Interaction between humans and dæmons to show the ambiguities and complexity of character, motivation and behaviour Philip Pullman's novel, Northern Lights, offers an impressive alternative reality which has similarities with the present day, and differences too. The story starts in Jordan College in Oxford but it is an Oxford unlike ours: the technology and the culture of the people give the impression that it is set in the late 19th century. It is a fundamentally different universe in several respects - most evidently, all humans have dæmons. The main character in the story is young girl called Lyra Belacqua. She is a half-wild, half-civilized girl left among the Jordan College scholars by chance. Her dæmon, Pantalaimon, frequently takes the shape of a brown moth or an ermine. Every person is accompanied throughout their life by a dæmon, which takes the form of some kind of animal. Those of children...
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