The Subtle Knife
What are the motifs in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman?
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Destiny is a motif in this story. The narrator refrences Lyra's destiny a number of times even though Lyra does not know it herself. It is foreshadowed that Lyra might end to the Church's destiny.