Margaret "Meg" Murry is the protagonist of A Wrinkle in Time and its 2018 remake. She is the daughter of Dr. Alex (or Jack) Murry and Dr. Kate (or Dana) Murry.
Background[]
When her father disappears, Meg uses the tesseract to travel to the planet Camazotz to rescue him. While she succeeds, her brother, Charles Wallace, is left behind on Camazotz, his mind overtaken by the sinister technorganic being known as It (or Red). Meg manages to pull an act of true love to free Charles Wallace from It/Red's mind control, in the process also defeating It/Red.
While Meg starts out having trouble socializing and distanced from her family, her adventure allows her to both be more sociable and reestablish her bonds with her family. Meg is just as smart as her parents, able to master complex technology and craft brilliant plans.
Appearances[]
A Wrinkle in Time (2003)[]
Meg is introduced as the daughter of the Murry family where her father tells her to make a wish upon seeing a shooting star in the sky, where she has a hard time adapting her life in the real world, to which her father tells her that nobody hates her despite her troubled adaptability, telling her to think patiently and her father says that whenever she needs him, he will be in her heart while listening to him just as her mother tells her to return home. Upon returning home, she narrates to herself about her troubled life living with her family, narrating that both of her parents were brilliant scientists while passing through the twins Sandy and Dennys playing foosball together just as Meg explains that she wished that her missing father would come back. Meg then describes Sandy and Dennys adapting their lives to each other, despite them being happy and obnoxious, while describing Charles being new to the family.
The next day during a lesson about neurons at the Westover Community School, Meg stares at Mrs. Whatsit in her crow form outside the window, feeling distracted upon seeing the crow tap the window just as her teacher, Mr. Porter, tells her to know what the human brain is about just as Meg gives her teacher details about what the brain is about to which Mr. Porter cuts her off explaining the false information about the brain she asked for during class, telling her to report to detention. During detention, Meg talks with her principal as she tells him that her teacher gets the info wrong all the time. The principal explains to her that there is nothing to be ashamed explaining that when one adult disappoints her, Meg cannot take it out on all the rest. Meg denies, telling the principal that he doesn't care, to which the latter convinces her about what her father did before his disappearance. Meg mournfully leaves the principal's office and sulks outside the school. Thereupon, she encounters a group of bullies being rude to her and Charles Wallace just as Calvin O'Keefe arrives to tell them to stop pestering them. While walking across the woods, Meg tells Charles that if he talks to other people outside the family, people wouldn't think he was acting strange.
When Meg returns home, she meets her mother researching a new school for her, known as Again, explaining that the Happy Medium would meet her one day. That night, the same crow pecking on the school window meets Meg again just as she flies away. Meg then talks Charles about her encounter with the crow while she discusses about her difficulties in adapting with other people while Charles tries to introducer Meg and her mother to Mrs. Whatsit just as the family's dog, Fort, hears thunder outside. Charles then tries to introduce Mrs. Whatsit to Meg and her mother, to which the two don't know who she is. Later, the crow outside is revealed to be Mrs. Whatsit where she has a conversation with Meg's family inside the house just as she explains to Dana that there is one such thing in the real world as a tesseract just before she leaves and transforms back to her crow form.
The next day, Meg's mother leaves the house just she tells them to stay indoors while she is gone. Despite this, Meg and Charles leave the house and try to search for Mrs. Whatsit, trying to figure out what a tesseract is. The two encounter an abandoned cottage as Meg tries to talk to the crow whom she mistakes for Mrs. Whatsit, but it is in fact a real crow, just before Meg and Charles leaves as a pair of glasses watches them leave. Returning home, Meg later sees Calvin riding on his bike just as Calvin is invited to go inside. That night later on, Meg watches a flashback of her playing with her father at the playground before his unfortunate disappearance to which the video goes static after that only to find out that Mrs. Whatsit's face is appearing on screen, warning the two that Charles and Meg's father needs him before he is lost forever.
With Calvin joining in, Meg and Charles hold each other's hands while being guided by Mrs. Whatsit as she transports the three to the magical planet Camazotz as the three hold each other together to arrive at the planet with the power of the tesseract. Upon arriving at planet Malik's third star Uriel, which is at the planet Malik, Whatsit explains to Meg that it was the tesseract that brought her, Charles and Calvin to the planet. As the trio picks up the blue flowers, Meg and the rest board on Mrs. Whatsit in her Pegasus-like creature form and look at the distant darkness that senses a great danger to the universe if not stopped. That night, Meg discusses with Calvin, explaining that the three Mrs. Ws haven't decided to know if they would hold Meg and the rest of her group as hostages.
During a conversation with the three Mrs. Ws the next day, Meg and the rest of the children look at a vision of the Solar System where it is shown that her father is lost at the planet Camazotz and was vulnerable to the power of darkness, because he stumbled upon the tesseract without understanding it carefully as it is also known that many warriors triumphed over many battles at that time. Meg then asks Mrs. Whatsit about Charles going alone to which she explains to her that this is the reason why they sent the three to the magical planet as Charles alone cannot defeat evil. She sends Calvin and Charles to a nearby cave to find the Happy Medium who would help the two on their journey, followed by Meg joining in. As Meg, Charles, and Calvin plan seek the Happy Medium on their journey, the three travel very far into the cave with assistance from Mrs. Whatsit. During their journey, the three encounter glowworms which helped the three give them light just as the three find the Happy Medium. After learning about Mrs. Murry sad for her husband's loss, it leads Meg, Charles, and Calvin to travel to the planet Camazotz to find Mr. Murry, her mother's husband, via tesseract.
At the planet Camazotz with help from Mrs. Which, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Whatsit, Meg, alongside Calvin and Charles, wander around the deserted place where a vicious being known as the It watches over them. The three then arrive at a local neighborhood to which the three find everything strange in the Camazotz neighborhood. Arriving at a movie house, the three discover many merchandise related to the It, who rules over Camazotz at the Central Central Intelligence headquarters as a local Camazotz resident girl points the trio to the It's headquarters. After discussing with a Camazotz resident teen about It, Meg, Charles, and Calvin approach the Central Central Intelligence headquarters to face the It.
Arriving at the headquarters, Meg, alongside Charles and Calvin, enter Room K07 without filling the forms required to access by following an agent nearby without getting caught by the security guards. Noticing that the security guards placed Calvin into a room where a lab employee gives Calvin a hallucination of his basketball dream, Meg and Charles find lab coats in order to enter the lab to which Meg tells him to snap out of it as this hallucination is a trap to which Charles manages to help rescue him from this trap. Having rescued Calvin, the three continue their mission to find Meg's father to which upon noticing that they cannot escape, Meg sees an image nearby believing it is his missing father where he attempts to enter but is unable to. Meg shouts for her father's name to which Calvin tells her that her father could be anywhere. Calvin tells Meg to be patient and think calmly before she causes more problems by remembering what Mrs. Whatsit said to which Meg puts on Mrs. Who's glasses and is able to access the image where her father is at.
As Meg enters the room via tesseract, she finally finds her father inside to which she tells him to remember her to which she didn't recognize her at first to which he suddenly recognizes his daughter. Megs tells her father that his son Charles is with Calvin, Meg's friend from school. After explaining her long story to her father, she gives him the glasses provided by Mrs. Who so that the two of them can escape together and arrive at the spot where Calvin and Charles are at to which the moment is disrupted when It enters, where he separates the platforms between Charles Wallace's allies and Charles himself. Suddenly, Charles, under control by the Man with Red Eyes, puts Meg midair, much to Calvin's worry about Meg in trouble just as Calvin tells Jack to put on Mrs. Who's pair of glasses to save Meg from the tyranny of It. Meg attempts to escape with her father and Calvin, but suddenly gets separated from the two where Calvin and Meg's father end up at Ixchel via tesseract.
Meg, her father, and Calvin find themselves in a planet of healing and understanding known as "Ixchel" where she is found by a mysterious Ixchel alien named "Aunt Beast" who rescues her from the frigid weather to keep her warm while she discusses with her father about leaving Charles Wallace behind, to which Aunt Beast comforts her, as she tells Meg not to fear about losing hope. As Calvin approaches her, she discusses about not giving up in trying to rescue Charles Wallace from It. Calvin then explains to Meg about the powerful darkness from Camazotz which attacked Meg while in the tesseract as explained by Aunt Beast herself. Aunt Beast then approaches Meg who understands her frustrations of rescuing Charles from the Man with Red Eyes to which as Meg talks to the alien, she explains to her that on Ixchel, the residential aliens just like Aunt Beast, they "feel that things not as they seem but they are" just as she tells Meg to lend her a hand.
Later, Meg finds herself in the real world where she finds out that she has trouble seeing her family. Now alone, Meg looks across the letters by her house to which Meg stares at another Meg to which the other Meg in her mind berates her for being hopeless and useless to which it is known that Meg is practicing to look for anything that is unseen as part of Aunt Beast's advice. Back at Ixchel, Aunt Beast explains to Meg that the only way to fight the darkness and defeat It and all of his evil forces is to discover all that is unseen. She also explains to Meg that all things that can be seen are temporary while all things that cannot be seen are eternal, telling her to take time and concentrate to know that what she seeks is like music so that Meg would be able to find anything that cannot be seen. Being tasked to find anything unseen, Meg wanders across the chamber and encounters Mrs. Which who tells her that she, her father, and her friends must return to Earth while she, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Whatsit will take care of Charles Wallace.
While discussing with her, she explains to Mrs. Which that she herself cannot lose faith with her friends, explaining that she sticks together with her friends with loyalty to which Mrs. Which explains to her to know if loyalty is the one causing her to be furious and other problems she had with her friend Calvin and her father while trying to rescue Charles Wallace to which while discussing a plan how to rescue Charles, the reflection of Mrs. Which suddenly disappears just as she appears physically in front of her, explaining that trying to explain that Charles Wallace from the Man with Red Eyes is not going to be easy, much to Meg explaining to her that Charles is still her brother while Meg tries to ask Mrs. Which to know if she remembers any of Charles' moments to which she explains that she has never experienced human passion before in a strange universe just as she studies Meg being very curious about Charles just as Mrs. Which hopes that Charles could be rescued and returned home just before Meg leaves.
Meg meets Calvin again who loses faith about losing Charles to which while talking with him, she explains to her friend that there is something he is afraid of to which Calvin shares his fear of not being like Meg to which Meg explains to her friend that she is now afraid of losing faith in trying to rescue Charles Wallace. Later when Meg returns to her father alongside Calvin, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who appear in front of the Meg, her father, and Calvin where they discuss with the three about the possibility of reuniting Charles back to his family to which it is explained that grace could be the only way to fulfill their mission in defeating It and his powerful forces.
After remembering what Mrs. Whatsit said to the three, Mr. Murry tells his daughter to be herself in order to cheer her up to which Meg's father happily embraces his daughter, followed by Calvin happily praising Meg just before she approaches Aunt Beast. However, Mrs. Which explains to Meg that she prided much on her wisdom, but she has taught her much, followed by Mrs. Who explaining to Meg not to give up faith in herself in order to accomplish her plans of defeating the Man with Red Eyes and rescuing Charles. As Meg encounters Aunt Beast who embraces her, she sees Mrs. Whatsit behind her where she explains to her that she feels happiness in her mind, which the darkness does not have to which she explains that only her faith that she is to find for herself just as Meg travels back to Camazotz again via tesseract in order to help her save Charles and finish her goal in defeating the Man with Red Eyes.
After Meg returns back to Camazotz at Central Central Intelligence, Meg arrives at the spot where Charles Wallace (under control by the Man with Red Eyes) who is serving It at a dining room Meg confronts It where he offers a strawberry banana smoothie to Meg to which she rejects his offer. Later while confronting It, Meg warns Charles that It is the one talking to him and putting him under control to which Meg faces It. While planning to free Charles, Meg begins counting the numbers the elements of the periodic table from one to thirteen in order to which a vision of Calvin suddenly appears to distract Charles and get him out of It's influence. Meg approaches Charles again who now finally understands what Meg is really saying about the bad influences from It to which Meg suddenly hugs Charles to help him escape from It, much to his rage.
Returning to the real world with Charles Wallace (actually an illusion), Meg approaches her mother who is happy to see Meg back after not seeing her for a long time, alongside Charles Wallace to which while Meg's mother is preparing pineapple for Charles Wallace, he recaps about his adventures through the power of tesseract. Meg then explains to her mother about what really happened to her father to which Meg starts to realize that everything around Meg in this dimension is not real. It is then known that Meg's return to the real world so that she can reunite with her mother with Charles Wallace back was actually an illusion after not explaining of what is wrong with her as Meg finds herself again at Camazotz to which when Meg catches the chalk tossed by It, she finds herself in the Westover Community School. Thereupon, the Man with Red Eyes confesses with Meg, telling her that everybody has quality and everyone is alike to which Meg denies, explaining that like and equal are not the same thing, just as Meg explains to Charles Wallace that anything that It told him has never been the real truth just as she finds herself at Camazotz again.
Still being cornered by the Man with Red Eyes, Meg attempts to convince Charles Wallace that she loves him but he refuses to listen to her trust. Meg tries hard again to explain to Charles that she loves him so much to which the Man with Red Eyes starts reacting to Charles following Meg's advice to which the Man with Red Eyes warns him that Meg is a threat to him, Meg explains to Charles that he is her baby brother and after Charles finally trusts Meg, where Meg explains that she loves him to which Charles accepts, defeating the Man with Red Eye, It's agent, gets knocked into the pipeline, defeating him and It itself.
With It finally defeated, Meg tells the Camazotz locals that they are now free from It's control, telling them that no one will hurt them, even without It. Meg and Charles Wallace leave Camazotz and travel to the real world via tesseract where the two of them return, along with Meg's father, and Meg's friend Calvin. Meg's mother suddenly feels happy that she finally gets to see Meg and Charles Wallace back along with her husband after not seeing them for a long time where Meg's mother suddenly reunites with her daughter after being reunited with her husband. Suddenly, the three helpful Mrs. Ws appear in front of Meg's mother just as the three praise them for giving them much what Meg expected, just as the there Mrs. Ws leave. After the three Mrs. Ws leave, Calvin approaches Meg who explains to her about what she did to save Charles Wallace to which Meg couldn't explain about what she did to save Charles to which she explains to him that love was the one which saved Charles as she and Calvin calmly observe a quiet, starry night.
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)[]
At a young age, Meg spends time with her father Alex who explains to his daughter his science experiments to which when Meg's father tells her that it is time for her to meet her new brother Charles Wallace just as her mother shows her what love really issues while her father explains that she can feel love, even if she can't see it as Meg's father explains to her daughter that love “is not gone but enfolded" according to his wife. She then approaches Charles Wallace who teaches her a new word, "exclusive" to which Meg finds out that Charles has trouble sleeping, suggesting him to sleep into her room to which during the conversation, Meg hears an article over the radio headlining the breaking news about father's disappearance week, much to Meg's worry about her father's fate. At school, Charles Wallace and Meg both have a hard time adjusting to school ever since their father has disappeared as Meg is told that she cannot always be using her father's disappearance as an excuse, much to the teachers who gossip about Mr. Murry and Veronica who gave a negative comment about Meg's father. Meg becomes furious with Veronica, injuring her by tossing a ball at her, resulting Meg being sent to the principal's office. As Principal Jenkins tells Meg that Veronica's parents are worried of what Meg did to their daughter, Meg tells him that their daughter is mean. However, Jenkins denies, telling her that she was a top student with positive attitude but now that she has an unacceptable behavior at school, as the Principal tells her that she can't use her father's disappearance as an excuse for this conversation, telling him that it's been four years since her father was around, believing that he might not come back. Meg then leaves the Principal's office furiously and returns home, much to Jenkins' worry that his conversation is not finished. Meg approaches her mother at home who is furious of her, telling her to write an apology letter to Principal Jenkins as well writing another apology for Veronica for the unacceptable behavior she had at school, much to Meg's frustration in adapting to have a new life without her father. She also explains to Meg that she must avoid using her father's disappearance as an excuse to everyone at school. Feeling worried that her father would never return, Kate tells her daughter to not give up hope.
Downstairs, Charles introduces Meg to her to Mrs. Whatsit who introduces herself to Meg. Meg's mother asks her to know if there is anything she can do, to which Charles explains to Meg that Mrs. Whatsit is harmless to which she explains to Meg that Charles Wallace is the greatest mind she has ever encountered. Explaining to her that it is past midnight and her children should go to bed, Mrs. Murry explains to her that she should visit the house some other time, to which she explains to Meg's mother that tesseract does exist, to which Meg doesn't understand what tesseract does just before she leaves.
The next day, Meg and Charles Wallace meet up with Calvin across the neighborhood where Calvin explains that he was doing his homework and had a weird feeling that he went to the neighborhood. After Charles tells Meg to meet Mrs. Who, Meg feels worried that the house is off limits just as Meg approaches her in her house. Encountering Mrs. Who, Meg and Calvin gaze upon her just as Mrs. Who happily encounters Charles Wallace in the house. Upon encountering her, she offers Meg and Calvin to sit next to her. After listening the quotes Mrs. Who gives to Charles and Meg, he, Meg, and Charles leave the house to give Mrs. Who some time to rest. Later at home during a conversation with Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace, Meg's mother shares her story with them that her husband was a scientist explaining the process of the tesseract. After dinner, Calvin and Meg walk across the garden explains to Meg that her mother is kind and caring just as Meg's neighbor Veronica spies on the two just as Meg feels embarrassed to continue talking with Calvin about Veronica spying on the two to which Calvin tells Meg to ignore this. Suddenly, while at the backyard, Calvin approaches the three Mrs. Ws who are helping Meg trying to find her missing father, while Mrs. Which tells her that her father is still alive just as Mrs. Which and Mrs. Whatsit plan to help her, to which Meg accepts the deal from them. As a result, the tessering act begins as Mrs. Which advises Meg to find the right frequency and have faith in herself, which sends, Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin to another dimension known as Uriel.
Meg later finds herself in Uriel where she enjoys seeing the landscape of the planet and later approaches a patch of sentient flowers, while Mrs. Whatsit suggests to Meg to show them a picture of her father while Mrs. Which suggests to Charles Wallace to help Meg find her missing father. Meg shows the flowers her locket with an image of her father, asking the flowers to help her, which the flowers found out that Meg's father was here, but continued to explore before he disappeared just before Mrs. Whatsit transforms into a large humanoid creature with bright green leaves. However, after Calvin almost falls off and is saved by flowers, Mrs. Who tells Mrs. Whatsit to help Meg, Calvin, and Charles to focus on light when darkness is present, which it is found out that the pure evil energy from Camazotz known as the It is causing the negativity, which must be avoided at all costs. In a plan to help Meg find her father, Mrs. Which helps Mrs. Who and Mrs. Whatsit take Calvin, Charles, and Meg to the Happy Medium's lair, reminding Mrs. Whatsit of a seer who would assist them.
Arriving at the planet Orion, Meg is being aided by Mrs. Which while following Calvin, Charles, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Whatsit to meet the Happy Medium who would assist Meg finding her father just as Meg puts confidence in herself while catching up with them. Upon encountering the Happy Medium, he tells Meg and the others to think while balancing on one foot in a plan to help Meg rescue her father. After listening to the story that she told her about the It's negativity, Meg becomes determined to help fight against the darkness with help from the Happy Medium who tells her to trust him and put faith in herself. Realizing that her father was captured at Camazotz, Meg hugs the Happy Medium, while Mrs. Whatsit tells Meg that the It captured her father, leading Meg and her allies to travel to Camazotz and rescue him. Meg begins devising a plan to find a way to get into Camazotz, which Mrs. Which tells her that no one can tesser to this location but rather only to places where there is light but rather return to Earth for safety. The Mrs. Ws plan to send Meg back to Earth for safety, but Meg instead re-directs the tesseract to Camazotz.
Meg, Charles, and Calvin find themselves at Camazotz in a field where they approach the Mrs. Ws where it is found that they are weakening, due to the fact that Meg's will to find her father weakened their tesser as she re-directed it from Earth, just as Mrs. Which tells Meg that she cannot help her, telling her to find her father on her own while being tested every step of the way. Just before leaving, Mrs. Who gives her a pair of glasses as a gift for Meg to enfold just before all three Mrs. Ws leave just as Mrs. Which tells Meg, Charles, and Calvin to stay together, followed by the other Mrs. Ws bidding a farewell to them. As a forest grows onto the field, Meg and Calvin are having trouble finding Charles Wallace as a massive storm engulfs the trees in its path while the voices of the Mrs. Ws advice Meg to find Charles who is safe by a wall. Seeing no way to go over the wall, Meg and Calvin hide inside a hollow of a tree where the tornado lifts up the tree where they are hiding. Meg later finds herself at a stream where she becomes self-conscious just as she approaches Calvin not before they finally find Charles Wallace who is alive after all.
As the three stroll across the Camazotz neighborhood, they encounter various children bouncing rubber balls in sync just as Meg, Charles, and Calvin approach a local woman offering them dinner, which Meg warns them to avoid trusting any resident, fearing that it could be a trap. Meg, Charles, and Calvin find themselves at a deserted beach where Charles finds out that Camazotz changes sceneries throughout their adventures. They encounter a beach packed with a large crowd of people and amongst the crowd is a man with red eyes who approaches the three.
As they approach the Man who reveals himself as Red, Meg, Charles, and Calvin sit down while Red offers them a plate of sandwiches (which turn out to be made of sand and are not real food) not before Charles Wallace becomes the It's servant. Meg and Calvin go after the Man with Red Eyes as they attempt to stop Charles Wallace from trusting the It as the two find themselves in a building known as "Central Central Intelligence". When Meg realizes that her father is missing (though unable to see the room where her father would be), she uses Mrs. Who's glasses to scan the room, seeing images of mathematical diagrams of topological order and a fractal dimension while finding an invisible staircase. Following the path, the sketch of a staircase appears while Meg puts determination in herself following the path of sketches and into a hidden alcove. Meg enters a hidden tunnel and finally finds her father.
Happy to see him back, Meg emotionally reunites with her father. Meg feels happy to see her father back after being gone for four years just as Alex tells his daughter that he was trapped by the It as Meg was trying to bring her father back home while recapping that Charles and Calvin came here to rescue him. After a tearful reunion, Meg guides her father out of the hidden chamber. Having escaped, the It (controlling Charles Wallace) feels furious that Meg is stopping his plans just as he drags Meg, her father, and Calvin across a dark corridor while the It reveals his true form (as enveloped in Meg's mind) as Meg's father tells her daughter to resist the It succeeds.
Meg finds herself in a dark space where he encounter the It who attacks her with his large arms in the darkest mind in the universe. Meg approaches Charles who tells her to join the It just before being attacked by a shadowy figure. Meg notices that the person who pushed her is none other than another version of Meg, a cooler version of herself just as the It introduces Meg to an alternate version of herself. Seeing her alternate version, Meg refuses to join the It, causing the cooler version of Meg to disappear and becomes determined to fight against the It who keeps attacking her. Meg remembers the advice of what the Mrs. Ws taught her and becomes determined to save Charles from the It. Meg tries hard to show love to Charles to save him from the It who is possessing him and after telling her that she deserves to be loved, the It suddenly becomes very furious, using his arms to grab Meg just as Meg tells Charles that she loves him. Charles (who is later freed from the It) later approaches Meg who is lying down unconsciously just as he sings "Flower of the Universe" to Meg, suddenly reviving Meg, bringing her back to life.
With Meg revived, the It begins to disintegrate, causing all the darkness inside the room to turn into light, wiping out the darkness and undoing all the negativity the It caused. Meg and Charles Wallace see the Mrs. Ws who came back just as the three praise the two for defeating the It as the three deem her for being a heroine who saved the universe. The Mrs. Ws then bid a farewell to Meg after while performing the tesseract just as Meg finds herself home with Charles.
Meg and Charles later approach their father who is happy to be back home while Calvin praises Meg for her heroic actions just before Charles rushes back to his mother. Mr. Murry shares his story with his daughter, telling her that he wanted to shake hands with the universe and that he should have been holding hers. Meg later sees Veronica who stares at her via window where she no longer harasses her like she did in the past ever since her father's return just before Meg returns home and reunites with her mother Kate who later reunites with her husband Alex. Meg later approaches Calvin who is planning to return home planning to talk to his father just before he leaves just as Meg and Charles both bid a farewell to Calvin. She then looks into the sky through a window and thanks the Mrs. Ws for their assistance in helping her find her father and bringing him back home.
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