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Fairy Tale And High Fantasy Analysis

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Fantasy creates an imaginative world where anything can take place. Fantasy has many choices to think of that creates a world. With that fantasy takes the form in clusters of styles, there are Many different styles of fantasy like Fairy-Tale and High Fantasy. Fairy-Tale Fiction is one type of the five rings of tradition. Fairy tales have important features that help identify them. One feature of fairy tales deals with personal transformation. The second feature is the home setting. The home setting in the fairy tale explores the comforts of home and what happens when the limitations of those comforts are overstepped. High Fantasy is another type of the five rings of tradition. In high fantasy, the story starts off with a character in their …show more content…

Howl’s Moving Castle exemplifies the pattern of storytelling but has a different treatment to the pattern. In many ways, you can allude Howl’s Moving Castle to other Fairy-Tales like Cinderella. In Cinderella, the connection could be made with the stepsisters and how the youngest destined to have a good fate. Also, having to deal with an evil stepmother. Sophie youngest sister Martha says, “Lettie’s got brains, and wants a future where she can use them…I want to get married and have ten children” (24-25). The roles have been turned. In storytelling of fairy-tale its always the youngest get the better life among the rest of their sibling, but it shown that youngest doesn’t desire the life given to her. She wants to trade lives with her older sister Lettie who desire that lifestyle. Sophie being the oldest has a nice relationship with her sisters, granted in fairy-tale stepsisters don’t have a pleasant relationship. Mostly in some fairy-tale stories deal with an evil stepmother. Sophie stepmother Fanny took advantage of Sophie while they were running the hat shop. Towards the ending of the novel it illustrated that fanny truly has a heart, “Fanny threw aside her hat and her parasol and all of her grand manner and flung her arms round Sophie and wept. ‘Oh I didn’t know what had happened to you!’”

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