Essays on Fantasy

Introduction

The phenomenon of alien abduction has insisted on the emergence of research procedures that would define the concept by which these assumptions could be proven wrong or not. Relatively, it could be realized that in the field of psychology, unlike in the field of mystified science, alien abduction is seen to have been rooted on the distinct course by which experts intend to see why the sensation happens, and why the assumption itself is developed. The exploration of the issue on alien abduction is completely identified with what is assumed as a consistent experience that a person needs to

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Fairy tales are types of stories that characteristically feature European folkloric fantasy characters like dwarves, giants or even witches and magic among others. They take place once upon a time rather than real time. Pan's Labyrinth a Mexican-Spanish fantasy film is one such fairy tale. Although some claim that Pan's Labyrinth is not a Fairytale, there are sufficient reasons to support that indeed it is a fairy tale (Zipes 15).
The story takes place during the early Francoist period about five years after the Spanish civil war. It is starred by a character Ofiela haunting the Spanish maquis who

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In a Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois is a conflicted character who lives in a fantasy world to avoid the ugliness of her life. When she declares “I don’t want realism, I want magic!”, she is being serious. She has rejected the real world in favor a place where her fantasies (magic) provide an escape from the ugly reality that is her own existence. At the beginning of the play, Blanche is unbalanced, lying and drunk. It is not until the end of the play, after being raped by Stanley, that Blanche goes completely insane, but it is

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In 2010, James Cameron presented his epic film Avatar. Many cinema critics waited for the opening night. Manohla Dargis in The New York Times wrote a fantastic article dedicated to the film. She indicated that “several decades in the dreaming and more than four years in the actual making, the movie is a song to the natural world that was largely produced with software, an Emersonian exploration of the invisible world” (Manohla, ‘A New Eden, both Cosmic and Cinematic’). And she was right. The film covers the eternal questions of love and relations, friendship and faith. I guess, that

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The book, the glass menagerie, is an interesting read that encompasses and represents the lives of human beings who are torn between the world of reality and of fantasy. Therefore, it becomes imperative to discuss the storyline of the book and its connection to psychological theories. The book is filled with puzzling events that are more symbolic than real happenings. Just like the title describes it, the glass menagerie is a fanciful and fragile world in which the book’s characters live in. the book centers around three characters, namely, Tom, Jim, Amanda and Laura. Each of these characters

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A concept perpetuated by many different motivational experts and self help experts states that if a person wishes to achieve success there are simple steps that can be taken to effect such a goal. A common one is positive visualization. A series of four experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that positive visualization could increase the likelihood of desired outcomes in different endeavors. The results of these experiments showed the opposite effect. Positive visualization actually drew ambition away from the very activities that were required

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a. What are your personal reactions to this movie? Be descriptive.
“The Princess Bride” is a charming, funny Gothic film filled with colorful characters. The most captivating part of the movie is the sense of sincerity with which Director Reiner tells the story. The princess’ enchanted appearance also adds more interesting features to the film. “Princess Bride” is a postmodern fairy tale movie that affirms and challenges the principles of a genre that may be devoid of flexibility to provide support to the movie. The character of Patinkin is a joy to witness in this film because

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Death of a Salesman is the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Arthur Miller, it was published in 1949. The play is an American tragedy that details the life and death of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman. Note that Arthur Miller named this character “Loman” a name that literally derives from Low Man. Willy Loman lives in Brooklyn New York, where Arthur Miller was born and lived his professional life. Loman’s home life revolves around his nagging wife Linda, deadbeat son Biff, and younger son Happy. Loman fantasizes about being younger and having a young, joyful family with productive

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The 2005 film “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is one of the epic fantasy series which turned out to be highly successful at the box office. The lighting used in every scene was able to capture the emotion and beauty of the setting in New Zealand and South Island. The viewers were able to appreciate the scenes even more with the use of key light, fill light, soft light and backlight. In the scene wherein Lucy meets the White Witch, or the Queen of Narnia used a key light to give the characters

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In the story, The Things They Carried the author Tim O’Brien tells the story of soldiers of Alpha Company, led by First Lieutenant Jimmy cross. Most of the men are low-ranking soldiers. The platoon is there to fight in the Vietnam War. The narrator, Obrien, is one of the soldiers. This story is all about what objects those soldiers were carrying with them, and their memories or emotions associated with those objects. How all those soldiers are confronting the tension between fantasy and reality. The Dreamer of that Company is lieutenant Cross. He comes to his senses when

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Everything once written is read at least once. World literature heritage counts great many of works that were written in different styles with the use of the vast variety of methods and techniques, which assist writer in revealing his original idea and delivering it to the reader.
Brad Carrington, American is a fantasy short fiction story. The author gets the reader into a real world, but creates an unreal story in it. Along with human characters, there is also a speaking and thinking puppet dog character, who is an ultimate participant of all the events. Fantastic transformations of the

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The books Harry Potter and The magicians are fictional novels that take us through the world of wizardly in the lives of two young people. A lot has been told about the ability of magicians to transform and change things using mystical powers. Magic as narrated in the books is all about imagining something and bringing it into reality using some powers. The stories are very similar just that one is told in the perspective of an eleven-year boy who out of curiosity decided to venture into the world of magic. To fulfil his ambition, he enrols to a

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This essay aims at comparing and contrasting the theme of fantasy and wishful thinking as presented in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) and also in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie (1945). Both playwrights have intensively used characters who resort into habits of escapism into fantasy and wishful thinking to free themselves from their miserable existence. The main sources of their predicaments are their consistent failures in achieving their dreams, little interaction and communication with family members coupled with personal insecurities. Due to these facts, they all have a common problem which is frustration and boredom.

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The Pulitzer and Nation Book Critics Circle Award winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not an easy read. Although a fictional novel, it is based upon history and set in New Jersey where the author, Junot Diaz grew up. It is not just the story of Oscar de Leon, referred to as Oscan Wao, a “Getto Nerd” in search of his personal Grail for a “pure and unadulterated love;” it spans three generations and two cultures. It calls up Dominican-American history in a way that can be stark, brutal, lush, tragic and comedic. It refers

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In Aphra Behn's poem, On Her Loving Two Equally, she describes openly about her predicament that has been brought about by loving two men, Damon and Alexis. The persona finds herself undecided in between her feelings for the two men. When she is with one of her men, she finds herself wanting and longing for the other who is not present. For her, as she describes it, she would need to merge as one the two men in order for her to be completely satisfied.
The theme of this poem in the three stanzas could be expressed as enthusiastic

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Karen Brennan’s short story “Floating” is from a collection of short stories entitled “Wild Desire” (1991), which collectively could be defined as stories about independently-minded women, including the main character in “Floating” who escapes from her tedious, ordinary, but unhappy everyday existence into a world of fantasy. This story is narrated by a woman who we find has had a miscarriage, which has so deeply affected her mental state that she fantasizes, not only about still having the baby she has lost, but believing she is able to levitate, thus symbolically escaping from the constraints of her currently

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Arguably, the exotic Art Deco was an exceptional style that dates back to the 1920’s a time when fashion had hit the predominant art industry. Commonly referred to as the boom of the roaring, Art Deco affected many forms of art in decorative arts, design, fashion, transport and product design, film and fine arts. Similarly, the exotic art was the new trend that hit the art industry influencing numerous forms of art. It largely touched almost all parts of contemporary life such as dancing with girls, tropical birds and animals, lotus flowers and even crossed borders to change

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