Fantasy

Humbug: Power via Subversion & Desire in the Fantasy Novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Desire is a common feeling for many readers, such as the desire for one’s favourite character to triumph, but how common is desire for characters in novels and how important is it for characters? Characters in every genre experience feelings of desire but these feelings are extremely prevalent in fantasy, alongside desire’s counterpart subversion. Rosemary Jackson in “Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion”…

Playing fantasy sports has increased exponentially in popularity over the past 10 years. This can be traced to the Federal Government's decision to declare participating in fantasy leagues for cash prizes to be perfectly legal. As the NFL season approaches, prospective managers are honing their skills and planning their draft strategies. Given that skill levels may vary from one manager to the next, it would seem some fantasy football draft advice would be in order to try and even the playing…

Fantastic Fantasy Figures Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Leprechauns are all figures loved, adored, and believed in by young children. Are these mythical figures crucial to children developing correctly? As children grow into adulthood, they have to make a choice; to tell their kids about fantasy figures or deprive them of this magical experience. Because fantasy is a normal part of child development, believing in holiday figures like Santa and the Easter Bunny is healthy…

Chopin uses Edna’s past fantasy lovers as a parallel to the progression of her relationship with Robert through the novella, ultimately foreshadowing her end of never reaching what she desires. Edna’s initial experiences with Robert in Chapter II is a parallel to her first fantasy lover: the cavalry officer. Edna’s emotional state with the cavalry officer, being “passionately enamored”(26), parallels a similar emotional state in her moment with Robert found in Chapter II. Chopin’s…

Me, Jeffrey Szulczewski, the king of fantasy football? Well, sorta. So one week, I was at my dad’s house playing fantasy football on Week 3, and I was going all out. My dad doesn’t usually know how to play fantasy for every sport, so basically run every one of his 1 day leagues on DraftKings. Since I run the leagues, I usually do pretty decent. Earlier that week, I played the Thursday Night Football League. I played decent and picked some of the right guys, but it wasn’t good enough. I entered…

media is rapidly becoming as bad as smoking for the human condition,” I would have to say I agree with that sentiment because you can just see that people lose their own individual touch on life, and also most importantly they lose the aspect of fantasy vs reality. Particularly, when someone on social media posts a picture or a comment they don’t always post what they really want to say but they post what others would like them to say. For example, when most people post something online their…

Carole Wilkinson’s fantasy novel ‘Dragonkeeper’ is set in Ancient China and follows a slave girl and her dragon companion as they protect a dragon egg while traveling towards the ocean. ‘The journey of a thousand li begins with a single step.” (82) The factors of a fantasy novel are clearly evident in the book ‘Dragonkeeper’ because the story has a possible structure with its limits, ‘Dragonkeeper’ is set in a present era but with a fantasy twist and the characters grow to become better people.…

I read the Fantasy novel, The Unwanteds by Lisa Mcmann. The book is told from the point of view of 2 characters. Alex Stowe is one of the main characters he is an unwanted because he is very creative, Aaron Stowe is the twin of Alex and he is a wanted he is a military leader for Quill they are both 13 years old. Alex Stowe is Unwanted because of his creativity so this means he will be sent off to death, but when him and the other unwanteds arrive at the death farm it turns into this magical…

Tolkien A common theme in the fantasy genre is the battle between good and evil, although Martin deliberately defied the conventions and assumptions of neo-Tolkienian Fantasy. Whereas The Lord of The Rings has succeeded in externalizing villains through ugliness, dark clothing, Martin felt that Tolkien's oversimplified the struggle between good and evil into stereotypical clichés. William Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize speech rather serves as a paradigm for Martin's writing; Faulkner said that…

I am going to begin this essay with a heartfelt apology. I wanted to get this out of the way because this is going to be a very opinionated essay, comparable to that found within the last two pages of the online reading Art Without Boundaries. Unlike the aforementioned reading, I do not believe art has cultural boundaries. Neither in the past and especially not in today’s multi-culturally embracing society. There used to be an understanding that (good) art transcends all boundaries. Up…