Blog Post #20: Clockwork Prince Antagonist

As I continued to read Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare, I noticed that the antagonist is slowly becoming clear. The antagonist of this book is Axel Mortmain because he built an army of clockwork creatures, he plans to destroy Shadowhunters, he wants to get Tessa, and he also thinks that a Shadowhunter’s parent was the cause of the death of his own parents. Mortmain tries to kidnap Tessa because he thinks that he created her and that she is like his property. Tessa is not afraid of Mortmain because she has a bunch of people around her to protect her. I think that Mortmain will not succeed upon doing any of his goals.

Axel Mortmain is the antagonist of this book because he has tried to beat the Shadowhunters with a clockwork army. The army is made of mechanical creatures that Mortmain made himself. He also wants to use the army of mechanical creature to take over the rest of the world after he destroys all the Shadowhunters. He opposes the Shadowhunters a lot because he thinks that they have caused everything that has gone wrong in his life. I would not do what Mortmain did just because I assume someone did something without having any proof. That would be a mistake because if you think someone did something they had not, that would be wrongly accusing someone.

Another reason Mortmain is the antagonist of this book is because he wants to get hold of Tessa. Soon in the book Mortmain’s motivations and intentions are revealed. Mortmain wanted to get Tessa because she was a shape shifter. Mortmain wanted her to change into other people to read their minds. Mortmain tried many attempts to lure Tessa to him, but all of them have failed. I think that Mortmain will never get Tessa because she knows not to trust some things.

In conclusion Axel Mortmain is the antagonist of Clockwork Prince because he opposes all the protagonist in this book. The protagonists are the Shadowhunters and Tessa. I think that Mortmain does not have a true reason to oppose them.