What Is The Metaphors In The Queen Of Shadows

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Critical Review of Queen of Shadows In a world of witches, demons, and Fae magic has been lost; now an insignificant force against an army must stop evil forces from ruining everything they know. If this plot seems familiar, it probably because nearly every book in this genre is almost exactly like it. In the Queen of Shadows by Sarah J Maas, which is the fourth book out of six, Aelin must reclaim her throne and stop the King of Adarlan with her friends. She has some unfinished business with certain people in Adarlan as well such as her previous master, Arobynn. What Aelin doesn’t know is that another army of witches are training in Morath that she will eventually have to fight later on. Aelin must race to beat the king or else her entire…show more content…
Metaphors are always satisfying to find in books or in anything. A metaphor that stood out is how Valg demons can represent inner monsters of the mind. Valg usually take over people, erasing the former person entirely replacing them with the demon-self. Weak-willed people sooner succumb to the Valg then the righteous ones. This can be a metaphor for how just people who strive to be exemplary are more often better people than those who do not particularly care. "The things-things I did, we did... He liked to watch while I took them, while I ripped them apart" (Maas 319). This quote embodies the metaphor because this is a captured Valg guard who has little of his original self intact left. He is remorseful of his actions when the Valg took over as ethical people are repentant when they commit hurtful actions. Another metaphor that one can find is that sometimes, one has to wait for the right friend to come around. If one friends left before, they probably were not worth it. It is the friends that stay that count in the end. Aelin has had female company in previous books but they all left in one manner or another. But in The Queen of Shadows, she befriends Lysandra whom she knew before and she seems genuine. "I'm glad she found a female friend" (Maas 281). Rowan, the irrelevant romantic subplot, is speaking to Aedion about how it was nice that Aelin finally had a female comrade. Metaphors are hidden in nearly everything if one looks hard enough, but those are two of the capital choice ones from the

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