e saw that it was not an old man, but a young one. It was Jasper: Jaspers insolent handsome young face, and silver-clasped gray cloak, and stiff stride. Hateful was the look he fixed on Ged across the dark intervening air...and it became Pechvarry. But Pechvarrys face was all bloated and pallid like the face of a drowned man, and he reached out strangely as if beckoning...Then the thing that faced him changed utterly, spreading out to either side as if it opened enormous thin wings, and it writhed, and swelled, and shrank again. Ged saw in it for an instant Skiorhs white face, and then a pair of clouded, staring eyes, and then suddenly a fearful face he did not know, man or monster, with writhing lips and eyes that were like pits going back into emptiness. (LeGuin 178-179) These are the images that the shadow has taken throughout Geds life, and the causes of Geds pride and hatred, which released the shadow in the first place.When the shadow was first set loose upon the world Ged studied, and asked everyone what the shadow was, and where it came. From the wrong side of the world.(LeGuin 71) said one of his teachers. The unconscious, after a time of need, usually arises to re-adapt the conscious attitude in a better way to the unconscious factors, therefore, to accept what seems like criticism from the unconscious. (von Franz 171) Not accepting this criticism manifests itself as actual events that occur throughout Geds life. Ged first calls upon his power when the Kargs attack his village in Gont, and he becomes angry at his own weakness. It rankled at his heart he should die, spitted on a Kargish lance, while still a boy: that he should go into the dark land without ever having known his own name, his true name as a man. He looked down at his thin arms, wet with cold fog-dew, and raged at his weakness, for he knew his strength. (LeGuin 8). He didnt cast the spell to save everyone, but to save himself, and preserve his own life because h...
