Brutha Character Analysis

The Main characters are Brutha, Vorbis, and Om.

Om at first was a lazy god. This we can see by the fact he let his believers go and gradually he became powerless. Only Brutha, who is the protagonist of the book, is able to save him, and Om understands it is his only chance. Brutha’s character develops as we see that from a simple-minded boy, he becomes a prophet as he understands that the church is not always right. We can also see how the character of god Om starts to care as the book progresses. We can see this by how Om killed Verbis, and the people’s faith in Om is restored due to this miracle. As the story comes to an end, we can see how noble Brutha becomes. When Brutha meets Vorbis at death, they have to cross a desert, and Brutha helps him one more time.

It represents our world by having similar believes to ours: They have a monotheistic religion, like the Catholic religion, and they believe in astronomic facts we believe in as well. Omnia is the only land in Discworld which is so similar to our beliefs.

Brutha in this story represents mostly innocence. The small gods represent all of the gods in history which have been forgotten. They represent the fate of the god Om if he loses all of his followers. The book does not attack religion, and does not mock people who believe in god, the way people worship. Discworld by itself is a major metaphor and satire to our world. The descriptions used in this novel sound very accurate and are very interesting to read.

The descriptive words allow the reader to sense the way of life of an eagle for example:

“And then there is the eagle. A creature of the air and high places, whose horizons go all the way to the edge of the world.” Similarly, in the sentence “All power, all control. Lightning death on wings”, we can sense how powerful the eagle really is.

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