The Fantasy Story

The Romance Narrative is rife with traditional literary tropes. If you’ve read such tales as swashbuckling wandering knights facing magic dragons and other such impossible odds, then you have an idea of what this genre is about. The tradition dates back to the epic, and can be seen in early mythological tales such as the Illiad, or the Odyssey, and early English stories like Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or the Arthurian tales. They include adventure and fantastical elements; heroes battle villains to determine if good can triumph over evil.

In Morte d’Arthur, fantasy is used when a hand comes out of the water after Lancelot throws the sword into the water. This is a fantasy because hands do not miraculously appear from the water. Another fantasy is used in the story at the end when it says that King Arthur may or may not be dead. This is a fantasy because King Arthur's son killed him when he hit Arthur in the head, meaning that King Arthur is obviously dead. While in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight fantasy is used because a person cannot be green, people are different shades of brown. Also, another fantasy used in the story is when the Green Knight has his head blown off, but he still survives. This is a fantasy because he should have died after Sir Gawain blew his head off.

Unexplainable magical events/things occur and are embeded in the context to be normal therefore distinguishing it from fantasy making it an element of

Realism began as a literary withdrawal from romanticism. Romantic literature focused mainly on idealized or dreamlike lifestyles while “realistic works were intended to be accurate portrayals of

For example, one of the elements of fantasy is that the story starts realistic and switches to unrealistic, but then switches back to realism. This element, although hard to recognize was used in this story, but to see it, instead of considering the everyday world then, the reader had to consider Kira’s everyday world. The story starts with Kira grieving her mother in the Field (1). This was an everyday thing for people in Kira’s culture, although it is not a common ritual in society now. Then, the story introduces Kira’s scrap, how she made it without knowing how and how it seemed to speak to her (29).

A piece of artwork in this case is created and invented in manner that the viewer is lost away from the world of reality. The Invention and Fantasy theme of art uses the concept of imagery as most of this type of art work usually drifts the viewer from the state of reality into the dream world.

Illusion and fact, religion and science, seem equally real, and are often hard to distinguish. In combining a highly detailed, realistic setting with something magical, magical realism can create a world where mythical, miraculous and dreamlike elements of fantasy live side-by-side with the everyday life, without breaking the narrative flow. However, magical realism is not just kid’s fairy tales. It often requires the reader to think much deeper into the context to get what the writer’s real intention is.

Fantasy theme came from the concept of group communication, but then Ernest Bormann developed the theme to provide insight into how worldviews are shared. In the book there are two worldviews, but the worldviews have to come together. The first worldview is Christians’ and the second worldview is Anastasias’ and both of them have to be able to find a way to share their worldviews. The first assumption is communication creates reality, which makes it seem real. In the book, Christian takes care of Anastasia and talks to her in a sweet, passionate way, which makes some readers want to have a man like Christian.

The early decades of the last century saw the loss of credibility of fantasy literature among the academic elite who ruled it a popular genre with little to no scholarly merit. Little that had had the misfortune of being dubbed fantasy had escaped the blacklist cast upon the field. Many critics had also labeled the fantasy genre as largely cliché, full of shallow characters, and as having no value beyond being purely escapist entertainment. These generic labels, applied wholesale to fantastic literature, had pushed it off the

Of course, one of the reasons we fall in love with these stories is because they allow us to imagine the unimaginable. We can see ourselves wearing beautiful dresses, singing and twirling about in sumptuous castles, or, as dashing princes, saving the beautiful and virtuous girl; or we can envision exploring other worlds and discovering some of the most unfathomable mysteries of the

In the film “Bears Discover Fire” one may preserve the film as fansty. In the film, there are parts of the story line that truly cannot happen during this time on earth. For example, when the bears are standing upright. In this scene one may think to themselves that this is something that can/ will not happen. Today’s bears are not capable of standing upright and walking. Another example of a fantasy can be seen when the bears are walking around with fire. This scene shows signs of a fantasy because, a normal bear would not be capable of walking around with fire in their paws and setting up campfires. A final example of a fantasy in the film can be seen when, the grandma, Junior and Bobby are having a campfire with the bears in the woods. This is a scene that one might fantasize over. That is because it is not normal for humans to be close to a live bear and simple have a campfire with them. At this point a normal bear would have been frightened

1. What is the genre of this story? Are there any other possible genres this story could fall into?

As we grow up, we hear fairy tales and we read them into our lives. Every word and every image is imprinted into our minds. The fairy tales we read are never abandoned. They grow with us and our dreams become molds of the many morals and happily ever afters fairy tales display. We tell children fairy tales when they go to sleep and they read them in school and we even have them watch Disney adaptions that reinforce them further. Generally, they were everywhere while we grew up and they continue to be present while children are growing up now. But what influence do these stories have? We casually expose our children to these tales, but in some cases they can have particularly, harmful personal effects on them, although there is nothing completely or visibly “bad” about them or about the characters in them. Before we divulge our youth to these stories, we should assess their substance and see what sort of effect they may be having on them. They have received so much scrutiny and have been studied by many. Recognizing fairy tales effects on the minds of children is vital in their development. This paper will focus on the underlying messages that the average person wouldn’t recognize in these everyday stories. There’s a modern distort with fairy tales because while they still are widely popular with the youth, they influence children’s self images, outlooks on reality and expectations for their futures, especially for young women.

The beginning of the nineteenth century was also the start of a legendary movement in literature, known as Romanticism. Authors during this period created their own worlds by using their imaginations. Individuals no longer saw themselves a measure of everything around them, but rather as one more component of the great source of life and creativity: nature. The Romantics placed emphasis on emotions such as apprehension, terror, and awe as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, as well as the feelings that accompany confronting the sublimity and beauty of nature, especially. Supernatural elements are not present in all Romantic literature; however, the supernatural approach was an important and arguably crucial strategy for Romanticism to achieve its purposes.

Through the late 1700s and early 1800s, the period of Romanticism blossomed. “Romanticism” very loosely describes the era in which modern culture began to take shape. During the Romantic era, many advancements were made in all aspects of people’s lives and cultures. One aspect in particular has held great value even to this day. That aspect being the expansive amount of literature created during the era. The era of Romanticism had its name for a reason. It can be greatly attributed to the romantic style or genre of literature that defined the period. Romantic writers wove many tales of admiration, longing, and aspirations. They were fantastical, in a sense, and almost the antithesis of realism, even. Amidst the great breadth of literature