Possible worlds theory and immersion depend on each other: Individuals have to accept or at least have understanding of diversity in worlds in order to be able to immerse into one of these (textual) worlds. Immersion in itself is only possible if the individual is capable of suspending the disbelief that only one world can exist and the prevailing laws in this world will be overthrown during the time of immersion. What is known to be the real world for an individual must not necessarily be the only world but rather what is known to be familiar or common from personal experiences and world view. Accepting possible worlds means a recentering of the mind and to believe in the possible world as if it was actual. The strong connection between possible
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Her interest in themselves include different world views; she focusses her studies on literature and philosophy but is also more than averagely educated in science and physical laws. She enjoys discussions including various topics including religion which is normally not in included in her field on interests. As a person, although her character might be rather self-destructive, Ariel seeks to gain more knowledge and has a significant openness towards new world views and therefore possible different worlds. The preface of The End of Mr Y by Lumas encourages the reader to keep scepticism and to keep the will “to ask those peculiar whats, and wheres and hows of life” (Thomas, 32). It is further questioned if the world we live in and the content of the novel are dreams and everything could be equally real or unreal. As a final warning in the preface the fictional reader is asked to see the work as only fiction. Ariel is confused by this statement as she can not imagine to see novels as anything different than fiction at that point. However, immediately after reading the preface and discovering the absence of one page her thoughts only evolve around the book and all she can think about is finding the missing page 131/132 and learning about the possible …show more content…
The troposphere can only be entered through the ritual of drinking the tincture made up of a very specific mixture of ingredients and looking at a perfectly round, black circle. The importance of drinking the mixture stays even after several entries into the troposphere by Ariel but the circle is not necessary anymore. A ritual can help the mind prepare for upcoming events and therefore also resembles a temporal buffer between two happenings: in this case a temporal space between presence in real life and entering a different world or the troposphere. It could be argued that the ritual in this case is rather a procedure of taking drugs as the effect of highly dosed vegetable charcoal and holy water on the human body are not further described. This would also explain the necessity of drinking the mixture while the paper with a perfectly drawn, black circle loses it´s importance. Ariel enters the troposphere for the first time and experiences similar effects to what Mr Y was described to see: the horizontally falling in a black tunnel and different abstract symbols drawn on all sides of the
Her interest in themselves include different world views; she focusses her studies on literature and philosophy but is also more than averagely educated in science and physical laws. She enjoys discussions including various topics including religion which is normally not in included in her field on interests. As a person, although her character might be rather self-destructive, Ariel seeks to gain more knowledge and has a significant openness towards new world views and therefore possible different worlds. The preface of The End of Mr Y by Lumas encourages the reader to keep scepticism and to keep the will “to ask those peculiar whats, and wheres and hows of life” (Thomas, 32). It is further questioned if the world we live in and the content of the novel are dreams and everything could be equally real or unreal. As a final warning in the preface the fictional reader is asked to see the work as only fiction. Ariel is confused by this statement as she can not imagine to see novels as anything different than fiction at that point. However, immediately after reading the preface and discovering the absence of one page her thoughts only evolve around the book and all she can think about is finding the missing page 131/132 and learning about the possible …show more content…
The troposphere can only be entered through the ritual of drinking the tincture made up of a very specific mixture of ingredients and looking at a perfectly round, black circle. The importance of drinking the mixture stays even after several entries into the troposphere by Ariel but the circle is not necessary anymore. A ritual can help the mind prepare for upcoming events and therefore also resembles a temporal buffer between two happenings: in this case a temporal space between presence in real life and entering a different world or the troposphere. It could be argued that the ritual in this case is rather a procedure of taking drugs as the effect of highly dosed vegetable charcoal and holy water on the human body are not further described. This would also explain the necessity of drinking the mixture while the paper with a perfectly drawn, black circle loses it´s importance. Ariel enters the troposphere for the first time and experiences similar effects to what Mr Y was described to see: the horizontally falling in a black tunnel and different abstract symbols drawn on all sides of the