History Literature / ASwiftlyTiltingPlanet

* MightyWhitey: Played with. Madoc, a foreign prince, saves the People of the Wind from his brother, but he has completely abandoned his Welsh homeland and has no intention of ever returning. However, he is not generally held to be better than the People because of his race, and the only reason he has to be the one to beat his brother is because he doesn't want anyone to die, and because he blames himself for Gwydyr being there in the first place.

* MightyWhitey: Played with. Madoc, a foreign prince, saves the People of the Wind from his brother, but he has completely abandoned his Welsh homeland and has no intention of ever returning. However, he is not generally held to be better than the People because of his race, and the only reason he has to be the one to beat his brother is because he doesn't want anyone to die.

-->'''Gaudior:''' "You know some of the possibilities if your planet is blown up."
-->'''Charles Wallace:''' "It just might throw off the balance of things, so that the sun would burst into a supernova."

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Stepdad]]: Duthbert Mortmain in the Chuck arc, [[spoiler: ultimately responsible for Chuck suffering brain damage and coming unstuck in time, Beezie growing up into the hard, bitter Mrs. O'Keefe, and their grandmother dying of a heart attack.]]

* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: The setting for the Matthew Maddox arc, and the source of Bran's post-traumatic stress disorder, eventually leading to him settling in a new South American colony.

* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]: Sort of. Gaudior is generally right, but he admits that his pride and impatience aren't helping as the situation develops, and his lack of mortal perspective is generally held up as a bad thing.

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* TheyDo: As hinted at in the previous books, Calvin and Meg end up together--by this time, they are married and expecting their first child.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Many readers believe that St. Patrick's Rune was the author's own invention or (if they are familiar with St. Patrick's Lorica/breastplate) that it was her own variation of the original. The truth is that the exact wording of the rune was taken from the longer "St. Patrick's Hymn Before Tara", written by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clarence_Mangan James Clarence Mangan]], a nineteenth-century Irish poet.

* PublicDomainCharacter: Madoc, whose legendary trip to America is discussed on Wiki/TheOtherWiki. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoc here]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The author has Madoc sailing to America "before Lief Ericson", and refers to him as being polytheistic. However, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the civil war following the death of Owain of Gwynedd, and the legend of Prince Madoc, took place ca. 1170, nearly two centuries after Leif Ericson. Moreover, at that time, Wales had been Christian for about half a millenium.

* YearInsideHourOutside: Charles Wallace spends days and weeks within his hosts, but it all takes place in real life within a few hours. Of note is that Meg, who is experiencing is everything via [[{{Telepathy}} kything]], but is seemingly not affected by the amount of time she experiences within Charles Wallace versus the real time for her. She can even talk with her family and go back to Charles Walllace at the same time she left him.

* {{Utopia}}: The Harcles tribe. Everyone in it has a purpose in life, which they never question. People rarely argue, and when they do, the Keeper of Harmony resolves the dispute and everyone accepts his judgement without further question. No one is considered better or more important than anyone else. The idea of [[ApeShallNotKillApe one human killing another is literally incomprehensible to them]]. And despite the fact that they appear to have more or less a subsistence economy, Harcles has plenty of free time to wander in the woods, swim with his pet dolphin, or go flying on his pet eagle.

** Chuck's life is one tragedy after another [[spoiler: ending with him dying in an institution]]. His sister was ForcedToWatchIt happen, and the experience taught her that you can't keep anything you love.

* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Matthew is deeply in love with his brother's fiancee, [[spoiler: and ultimately spends most of his money to let her elope to South America to be with him. This act of love also helps save the world.]]

* AdultFear: This is ultimately why [[spoiler:Beezie became the way that she was. Her father died, and her mother married a man for financial reasons, who ended up becoming abusive. When Duthbert tried beating up her mother, her little brother Chuck leaped and took a blow, which resulted in him receiving brain damage, and seeing other bits of time. Chuck hid it because he knew that to cover up the crime, Duthbert would commit him. Beezie reluctantly decided to help him hide it. Despite his best efforts, Duthbert did eventually commit Chuck, where he died in an asylum. No wonder Beezie grew up to be a bitter person after losing the person closest to her and being unable to do a damn thing about it]].

* TraumaCongaLine: Chuck's life is one tragedy after another [[spoiler: ending with him dying in an institution]]. His sister was ForcedToWatchIt happen, and the experience taught her that you can't keep anything you love.

Preceded by ''Literature/AWindInTheDoor'' Followed by ''Literature/ManyWaters''