In the beginning of this reading, everything feels chaotic with Lyra running around Jordan College, but the more you actually pay attention, the more unsettling this book gets. The whole idea of daemons being your soul existing outside your body is very weird, but then I realized what the Church is doing with intercision, and it completely shifted the tone for me. This isn’t just fantasy. The fact that kids end up empty after being separated from their daemons is difficult for me to understand. It all seems extremely disturbing.
As I continued reading, the world itself started to feel way more oppressive than it first seems. The Church isn’t just background influence, it controls everything through the Magisterium, and the mention of John Calvin and how power shifted into this system makes it feel like an alternate version of history that went very wrong.
What really stands out to me is how everyone else seems to know more about Lyra’s future than she does. The Master and the Librarian are talking about her like she’s part of something that she can’t escape, and the idea that she’s going to betray someone without even realizing it is the creepiest part of this.
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