As stated by Dr. Seuss, “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” This metaphor conveys the message that fantasy makes real concepts appear different, allowing us to examine our problems from a safer distance. Realities in our lives such as family and growing up are represented in a different light in Alan Garner’s mythic novel “The Owl Service” and Jim Henson’s fantasy film “Labyrinth”.
Looking through the wrong end of a telescope is a metaphor and symbolizes how the audience sees reality in the way fantasy shows it. “The Owls Service” provides the audience with the “wrong end of the telescope” allowing them to see parallels between growing up in the fantastical and real world. The truncated sentences “you’re not birds. You’re flowers. You’ve never been anything else. Not owls. Flowers. That’s it. Don’t fret” symbolize the choice expected to be chosen for each gender, like how Alison’s choice as to what she should be like as an adult an owl representing fierce and …show more content…
This gets you to witness the world in different way and laugh at reality or agree with sorrows. Family is complicated and no family is without conflict or problems. In “The Owls Service” the difference between social status means a lot, and some of the parent characters even force themselves to continuously work just so that their children can have better lives. This is depicted in “You know I won’t have you speaking welsh. I’ve not struggled all these years in Aber to have you speak like a laborer. I could’ve stayed in the valley if I’d wanted that.” This shows that Gwyn was of a lower status than Allison and his mother has spent years in Aber just to give her child proper education. This all symbolizes that social status doesn’t matter to the love given from the
Looking through the wrong end of a telescope is a metaphor and symbolizes how the audience sees reality in the way fantasy shows it. “The Owls Service” provides the audience with the “wrong end of the telescope” allowing them to see parallels between growing up in the fantastical and real world. The truncated sentences “you’re not birds. You’re flowers. You’ve never been anything else. Not owls. Flowers. That’s it. Don’t fret” symbolize the choice expected to be chosen for each gender, like how Alison’s choice as to what she should be like as an adult an owl representing fierce and …show more content…
This gets you to witness the world in different way and laugh at reality or agree with sorrows. Family is complicated and no family is without conflict or problems. In “The Owls Service” the difference between social status means a lot, and some of the parent characters even force themselves to continuously work just so that their children can have better lives. This is depicted in “You know I won’t have you speaking welsh. I’ve not struggled all these years in Aber to have you speak like a laborer. I could’ve stayed in the valley if I’d wanted that.” This shows that Gwyn was of a lower status than Allison and his mother has spent years in Aber just to give her child proper education. This all symbolizes that social status doesn’t matter to the love given from the