Introduction
While reading through the Harry Potter series by anyone, it quickly becomes clear that the series is more of a family friendly type of book. It gives of a child-like sense of adventure, giving magic and the excitement of a new world to whoever reads it. This does not go on to say that it is meaningless, purposeless, an unrealistic fiction, or whatever comments some sad, grouchy soul uses to project his sadness onto others. Instead, Rowling goes on to include many lessons throughout her story, making them connect with her characters and bringing them to the life. It is inspiring in a way that does not come often in books nowadays. One of the many lessons Rowling has incorporated into this series is actually a quote spoken by one of the United States’ most innovative inventors from the 1700’s, Benjamin Franklin, “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” J.K. Rowling has mentioned this quote many times, alluding to the connections of this idea in her series. This message, including multiple other aspects, can be applied to the real world. Hence, it encourages readers to be always inquisitive and active, shows that there is no need to be afraid of changes and something new.
The Harry Potter books entertain a wide range of individuals due to the family-oriented contextualized plot. Literary works accord the adventure, fiction, and action genre hence rendering a captivating experience among the audience, mainly children and teenagers. The foundational thematic constructs of the books encompass a reflection of postcolonialism, hybridity, stereotype, uncanny, and ambivalence spectral overviews (Chiranorawanit and Passapong 14). Ideally, Rowling intersects vital mainframes on human behavioral code within a society and the repercussions of distinctive policies and regulations. Rowling’s perception entails the responsibility of citizens to question authority (“Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”). An excellent example is the distinctive classification of werewolves, house-elves, and half-giants as a translation to the postcolonial concept on racial identities and attribution to privileges. The Harry Potter series is a constructive entity contributing to the pool of insights concerning the influence of sociological environment to character development among the personnel.
Confronting Fear
One of the main lessons that Rowling explores through the series involves the effect of fear. This directly concerns the importance of change and the fear of authority, which often becomes a barrier to any alterations. While the fear theme enhances the thrilling experience, Rowling emanates the importance of realism against abstract thoughts. Set in a witchcraft society, the Harry Potter’s instructors, peers, and the elders show optimal terror at the mention of the greatest villain, Voldemort (Ghandeharion 74). It is an initiative that indicates the suppression from the consequences of crossing Voldemort based on historical accounts. However, Rowling marks Harry Potter as the vital change component within the social structure with a support from Dumbledore. The consistency in facing Voldemort attributes to Harry Potter’s realization of the profligate’s weaknesses. On the one hand, Rowling intensifies the flow of the story across the peroration. An excellent example is the demonstration of distress among witches, werewolves, and house-elves concerning Voldemort in the first feature and Harry Potter’s success to kill the caitiff in the last movie released in 2011. Primarily, fear is a theme that profoundly demonstrates the orientation of human interactions and achievements on the account of comfort and safety.
A distinctive phenomenon that contributes to the insights on Harry Potter’s sequel involves the variance on moral reasoning and the dynamism on human behavioral quotient. In the first film, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” Harry dares his peers to violate some of the rules and explore the institution despite acknowledging the rules (Büchler 3). Rowling proficiently intersects the spectral change in character and perspectives among the young witches to adeptly accomplish the main mission. Fundamentally, Rowling elucidates a prominent interdependence between the sociological environment and the essence of principality within the cultural dynamism. The series offer an in-depth lesson on Rowling’s depiction that individual personality radiates the sociological constructs of the community.
Death
Rowling’s insinuation about life enshrines the mystery of death that justifies the purpose of existence. According to Rowling, since birth it is crucial to appreciate the cyclic element and focus on maximizing your potential as demonstrated through Harry’s experiences. Death is a different thematic foundation in the Harry Potter books due to the intersectional variance with fear. In “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” Harry Potter’s parents die and he gets devastated from the loss. Primarily, Voldemort’s villain trait emanates from the focus on conquering death hence the commitment to attain immortality (Bryant 819). According to Dumbledore, the main reason people show fright with regards to death involves the unknown factor after the event (Bryant 820). As a result, different characters in the Harry Potter sequel feature distinctive response aspect on encountering death. An excellent example is the Peverell brothers’ pursuit of immortality by seeking the objects empowering them as the master of death. Despite the devotion, the Peverell brothers eventually realize the secret lies in accepting death as an inevitable occurrence hence its beauty based on the mystery of the aftermath.
Love
Love is another central thematic construct within the Harry Potter’s message, mainly because of the core attention to the sociocultural growth and development. Dumbledore describes love as a safety and coping mechanism among people due to the intense connection established through the interactions (Hussein et al. 3). During the battles against Voldemort, a significant percentage of the members of the order of phoenix lost their lives causing grief and sorrow among the survivors. Lily sacrificed her life to save her son, Harry from death and Voldemort’s wrath (Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”). Rowling constructs the plot of the books through the introduction of death spell. After Lily sacrificing her life to save her son’s, Harry Potter, a spell was created protecting the Harry from killing curses (Kindangen et al. 252). In this case, Harry Potter proficiently shielded his friends from death during the battle of the Hogwarts by dying and causing the spread of the spell effect among Harry’s friends.
Fate
One of the key embodiments of the Harry Potter’s sequel involves fiction and tales influencing the plot development and the essence of fate concept. Sybill Trelawney prophecies that Harry’s fate entails killing Voldemort. The acknowledgement of the prophecy prompted Voldemort’s first attempt to kill Harry as a baby (Hussein et al. 5). In this case, Rowling intersects the thematic constructs of fear, death, love, and fate through the foul relationship between Harry Potter and Voldemort. However, Rowling further indicates that apart from fate, a different variable that mediated Harry’s destined outline encompassed choice. Although fate asserted Harry’s identity as a witchcraft, his decisions determined the efficacy in accomplishing the main goal in his life. An excellent example is Harry’s preference to Gryffindor’s placement against Slytherin that the Hat argued suited Harry’s prominent fate. Ideally, the plot of the Harry Potter sequel affirms that expediency proficiently influences personality traits and the behavioral code.
Tolerance and Postcolonialism Effect
Tolerance is a major thematic construct that impacts the interactions among the characters and the successful accomplishment of the missions. In the term feast in “The Harry Potter and the goblet of fire”, Dumbledore articulates that strength is radiated from unity among people and weakness is a consequence of division (Petersen-Reed 10). Transcendentally, Rowling establishes that intolerance negatively affects social growth and development. Voldemort excellently demonstrates bigotry through his thrilling resolution to kill muggles as a sport. In this case, Rowling demonstrates the effect of social learning through the in-depth reconstruction of Voldemort’s childhood experiences. Voldemort’s father was a muggle who abandoned his dying mother and an unborn baby. As a result, Voldemort projects his resentment as a muggle identity through the executions of the muggles.
Despite Voldemort’s consequential encounter with the muggles, there is a profound influential value of postcolonialism to the reconstruction of sociological system. In the world witchcraft, there were two different types of wizards, the pureblood and the muggle-born. While the Malfoys represented racism ideology, the Weasleys as the purebloods showed respect and hospitality to the ethnically diverse individuals (Su 4). In the movie, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” one of the founders, Salazar Slytherin, resents the racial mix and the recruitment of muggle-born wizards in Hogwarts. The dynamism on diversity is a demonstration to the consequential modern-day society and the interactive quotient. It is the core responsibility of all relevant stakeholders to incorporate parameters promoting equality to enhance competent growth and development.
Rowling aptly demonstrates the contrast between intolerance and acceptance on ethnicity across the series. There is an adept difference between the social class of the elves and the werewolves to the wizards (Petersen-Reed 10). On the one hand, the wizards hold the higher point in the social hierarchy. On the other hand, the werewolves and the elves retain lower levels in the system hence the difficulty in accessing resources to utilize in improving the living quotient. Werewolves showed intolerance to the prejudice mainly because of the limitations founded on marginalizing the breeds from personnel in different domains. Marginalization is a factor that negatively affects the developmental aspect (Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”). Further, the slavery of the elves attributed to the resolution to fight for liberation. The intersectionality of social constructs on discriminatory practices affirms the perceptive spectrum of postcolonialism in the real-world regarding egalitarianism.
Rowling proficiently intersect realism and fantasy within the spectral overview of promoting equality. Different variables influence the sociological environment that trickles down to the organic implication of personality traits. The distinctive actors in the series demonstrate divergent appeals on behavioral codes. Primarily, Rowling focuses on elevating the perceptive aspect of fictional tales while promoting unbiased-oriented sociocultural structures (Hussein et al. 6). It is critical to intersect ethical virtues enhancing moral reasoning. In this case, Rowling justifies the significance of health social environment based on the contrasts between Voldemort and Harry’s character and visionary. While Harry optimally appreciates love and coexistence among personnel, Voldemort despises his ethnic identity due to the spiteful childhood encounters involving domestic violence.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the Harry Potter series of books is a scripted construct that projects the effects of postcolonialism and interdependence among personnel. On the one hand, the advocacy for unity fosters alleviation of negative appeals within the society. The main message that the author wishes to convey is doubt of authority, which also includes aspects such as fear, love, death, tolerance and postcolonialism effect. All these are parts of one important message that permeates all the Harry Potter books. Happiness lies in the ability of confronting the unknown and making peace with the divergent encounters. It is evident that Voldemort’s actions emanate from his childhood experiences leading to Harry’s fate on killing him to make the world a better place. Good precedes evil and renders the profound element of egalitarianism and the consequential recalibration of the social environment.
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