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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

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    Illusion and Fantasy in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams An illusion is fake belief whereas fantasy is imagining fanciful visions. Both these themes are important in the play because they show how they can be mistaken for reality by each character in the play. The themes illusion and fantasy are involved from the start of the play. We learn from when Stanley throws the package of meat down to Stella that he is a dominant character and that his relationship with Stella isn’t

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    Pan's Labyrinth Essay

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    Del Torro uses many motifs and parallels in his film Pan's Labyrinth. The most obvious parallel in the film is the parallel between the real world and the fantasy world of the character Ofelia. Both worlds are filled with danger. At any second in both of these worlds your life could be lost. Del Torro separates the real world from the fantasy world with many visual motifs. One of the visual motifs is the extreme differences in the color of the worlds. In the real world the director uses blues

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    eventual a genre is picked for the movies. There are many different kinds of genres, however, todays focus is on the genre type fantasy. What in a fantasy film makes it a fantasy genre? This paper will break down what a film genre truly is, explain how costume design can effect viewers, and describe the key elements of a film in detail to determine what makes it a fantasy genre. The word genre refers to a type or category of designated motion picture productions. In other words, a genre serves as

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    Realistically, A Streetcar Named Desire is in a fantasy setting because its fiction; meaning this entire play is in a fantasy setting. Which essentially means that without fantasy, there wouldn’t be any play. As unnecessarily obvious as that is, the point is fantasy is a theme that has been expertly laced in between each character. At first, it’s a bit hard to notice, but nearing the end of this play, the scenes connect so much better. In other words, going looking back through the scenes after finishing

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    Extraordinary Flight of heroism the occasion demanded of me.’: Fantasy and Confession in The Turn of the Screw” describes the actions and the apparitions in the novella as a part of the governess’s anxieties and how they are the symbol which resemble the execution of her job. The readers first get an understanding of how fantasy is her coping mechanism when she first has troubles dealing with the job. As Zacharias puts it, “the fantasy relieves the anxiety she feels from feelings of inadequacy for

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    Midsummer Night's Dream

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    How the real and the imagined worlds are explored in a Midsummer Night’s Dream. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by William Shakespeare in 1595, shows us fantastical elements and a griping narrative that demonstrations the values of both the real and imagined world and what links them together. The play has been read and watched for the four decades. Values are very important in both the real and imagined world. In the real world (Athens) there are values that we would see today such as, following

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    Fractured fairy tales are traditional fairy tales, except are adjusted to generate new plots with different implications or messages. Fractured fairy tales are closely identified to fairy tale parodies, yet the two operate different purposes: parodies imitate separate tales with an element of humour and the genre overall, whilst fractured fairy tales with a developing intention, aim to reveal social or moral messages. The setting of a fractured fairy tale, is the time and place in which it occurs

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    Fantasy is a genre that uses supernatural situations as a main plot setting. Fantasy is a measure by which responders can be introduced to important notions in texts. C.S. Lewis’ novel, The Magician’s Nephew explores the creation of Narnia. Lewis explores friendship through the characters of Polly and Digory. The notion of Good vs. Evil and magic are also used throughout the novel and helps us understand the need for fantasy in our own lives. The notion of magic is explored throughout the novel

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    We cling to our fairytales until the price for believing in them becomes to high. Replacing them for stories and tales, legends and myths - learning, listening and hoping. Hoping for a future we know will one day come to exist, only not knowing if it will come to exist before we cease to. Our promises are in the words and pictures of speculative fiction. A genre of writing made to enhance and enchant our imagination, as author Ransom Riggs has successfully done in his trilogy; Miss Peregrines’ home

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