A Wrinkle in Time Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory

What the heck is a tesseract? We'll let Charles Wallace explain:"Well, the fifth dimension's a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel through space without having t...

The Black Thing is the like Sauron, Darth Vader, and Voldemort all rolled into one, and it's coming to a planet near you. But what, exactly, is it? Calvin has the same question:"But what is it?" Ca...

IT, speaking through its various mouthpieces, portrays Camazotz as giving Disneyland a run for its money as the Happiest Place in the Universe. Here's what the IT-possessed Charles Wallace has to s...

A Wrinkle in Time is no The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but religious language and imagery does keep popping up. Is it coincidence that Charles Wallace asks Calvin to read him the Book of Ge...

The Tempest first pops up in the text among Mrs. Who's plethora of quotations:"We are such stuff as dreams are made on." She smiled broadly. "Prospero in The Tempest. I do like that play." (5.55)Bu...