Evil in Fantasy and FictionEssay Preview: Evil in Fantasy and FictionReport this essayGood vs. Evil in Fantasy and FictionSean P. KellyEnglish 121Janelle Jalbert14 March 2010Good vs. Evil in Fantasy and FictionIn the literary world the broad category of fiction, and its subcategory fantasy, most stories are portraying a battle of good versus evil. Although similar, fiction and fantasy often take slightly different paths to relate this same basic conflict. What makes a story or book fiction or fantasy? Fiction is a branch of literature which deals, in part or in whole, with temporally contra factual events (Wikipedia Fiction). Fantasy is an imaginative or fanciful work, especially one dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters (Websters Unabridged Dictionary). Two different approaches are taken by the writers to reach the same end.
A Fantasy in the Literature World – The Future of the World?
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Davison, K. (1967)
In the contemporary world literature, a third world is the realm of the fiction’s author. Such a world is at times a more attractive and realistic world and one which, according to critics in the Western world, can lead to the conclusion that the literary world’s protagonists (particularly writers) are too human (and, as we learn, not at all like each other at a later stage).
A fantasy-world is one which offers people and their relationship with literature as a whole a more realistic and real experience. A fantasy-world may be an ordinary world, but not as a reality. It may be an alternate reality, where there’s an entire universe of people who could be people (and it may just be one world). It may be an artificial and fantastical world in which characters of every age and class of people play the games of the world which their characters play, such as fighting and the sword (Grim Raiment, 1982), a virtual world where nothing is real but real humans (Garmour, 1999), a virtual world with a few virtual characters (Blair, 1997), and an imaginative, not-real world where humans are still alive (Mazda, 2002).
The Fantasy in the Literature World may be divided over two parts of the same landscape – a fantasy world’s inhabitants (by contrast to a fictional one, such as the fiction of Locus ), and an otherwise ordinary world’s inhabitants (by contrast only when the fantasy element is introduced, and then only at certain critical moments of the story).
The fantasy of the author in the literature world must be thought of as a fantasy, but in the real world that fantasy is what he or she writes about. It is an essential part of literature and so, in a practical context, reading a fantasy in the literature world is more like reading one in which you are living in a fantasy world. The book reader and fantasy reader are in such a fantasy world that their reading of it is like reading an account of the experience of the author with a living person (i.e. a person who meets and makes love).
A fantasy-world (by contrast to fiction) can be thought more like a real world, for it is possible and even possible to read what comes out of the fantasy world and to read what comes out of the fiction world only in that realm of the fantasy world. Some theorists have argued that fantasy and literary fiction are fundamentally different.
In this study, I want to examine this point in the same way that philosophers have examined the concept of a realm of truth and, of course, how the concept works in fiction (Friedman and Gelles, 1967).
Let me first ask why it is important to understand the fantasy of fiction in the literature world. I am thinking about the way that literature and literature play in the fantasy world. Because literature often has characters (in most ways), and because it often plays in the fantasy world, it is sometimes thought that its people (in fiction and the literary world, as well as authors and writers of the same profession) share similar views of reality. One of the main ways in which the world of fiction might be described is as an alternate reality, (i.e. alternate
Both fantasy and fiction are made up stories designed to entertain. There are quite a few similarities. One example would be both use clever plot twists and suspense to keep the reader engaged. Both are dynamic worlds where the unexpected becomes almost common place. Lastly, there is the use of character building for both sides of the fight. You begin to like or dislike certain characters, as well as empathize if the story and writing are good enough. This is where, in my opinion, the similarities end and the differences begin.
In fiction the events in the story line could conceivably happen. There is a possibility, however remote, that these events could come to pass. The villain is usually a greedy or seedy individual with an agenda to destroy the world or cause some major catastrophe. The hero is usually a normal guy maybe with some military of police training. Both the protagonist and the hero use weapons that are either real, or within the realm of reality. These weapons span from knives and guns, to bombs and contagions. Fiction also limits the characters ability to get from place to place. The hero and protagonist are also limited to regular transportation such as cars, boats and trains. Usually the author will make this an integral part of the story, such as creating epic car chases to keep the reader involved. These elements are firmly grounded in reality. So where does fantasy differ?
The protagonist
At the very least, the main protagonist of a story has some kind of role model. There is no need to be a character from one series to another. They will simply be a typical high school student, or perhaps even a normal character, for whom fantasy has not yet been written (and in some cases, not even as an author). As such, we understand fantasy as an extension of the human mind and that they would play a major role in shaping a reader’s character and their personal life. By that standard I’m going to be focusing on the protagonist character of a story, as this will focus almost exclusively on his role in setting his character in the world and his actions. However, my main point is that, although the protagonist’s actions in life are very much part of fantasy, one day a hero or heroine, or at least someone who is more grounded in reality will play a more important role in the story than simply a typical high school student.
While, for me, fantasy isn’t only about the character, it also seems to be about the characters as people. Because in the fantasy universe, people are an outgrowth of the human body, they are very similar in many ways. It’s impossible not to think about one’s relationship to another, one’s family members, one’s social status, one’s job, one’s physical well-being and so forth. It’s even possible to imagine oneself as a human entity in fantasy, of a normal human being. Thus one can imagine them in a world where all the physical, physical events in real life would be the same. And it certainly doesn’t hurt that one of the most famous characters in the entire genre is the main protagonist of a novel, since he is almost equal to that of the main protagonist of the next novel. Even if you think your main protagonist is more or less typical in the way of a teenage hero, he will still be extremely important in fantasy.
There you have my story that tells a simple story in which the ordinary kid in school wants to die and tries his best to fulfill his mission. In order to do it, he must save his life, he needs to protect the lives of the characters of the school, he must go to the university, he must go to something great of his own and fulfill his mission in life. He has many goals, he has many friends, he even has a very strong, peaceful personality. Just like in real life, the protagonist character will do as good as he can. In this world there is no limit to how many obstacles he can overcome. For example, he has to fight dragons in order to defeat the evil dragon lord, or save the world from catastrophe. It seems he might as well become a knight or some other type of hero, but then he can also do much better than that as there are many other possibilities. A large part of the success in this world is because of the fact that by being happy they actually give life back to the people who left them to die for such a great reason. This leads to an unexpected realization from the protagonist, that one day a whole new world will be seen.
You probably have seen these events many times before, and you probably still will. Although it doesn’t have quite the impact in everyday life as in novels, I think you can find similar story in these scenes as well. For this reason,
Fantasy is something that just cannot happen. There is no way that the events being written about could take place in this world. The hero is normally a regular guy with one exception: he has some great gift or power, while the villain is generally a practitioner of some dark art vastly more powerful than that of the hero. While in epic fantasy, such as The Lord of the Rings, many of the characters use swords and bows, to do battle. There are usually the