Understanding Fantasy And Its Phenomena In Modern World

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Fantasy is regarded as key point among the forms of literary genres attributed to literature. Fantasy as it features in literary plot that cannot occur on surface of the real world.

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Content of any literary work of art can be said to be a fantasy when its plot usually has to do with adventures of witchcraft or magical phenomenon, which takes place in an undiscovered and unrecognized planet of mainly an unknown world.

Totality of its thematic structure and setting revolve around a combination of technology , as well as architecture, and language, as it can be attributed to resemblance of European medieval ages identities.

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The most amazing fact about fantasies will be taken from the fact that their plot does revolve around witches, sorcerers, mythical, even animals like tortoises, dogs, elephants talking like human beings, and other things which no one can say has ever happened in real life before.

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Sometimes, exact location or setting of fantasy story seems to be lost or undefined but not all of them are being presented without location, it just that it might be impossible somewhere often especially in events of the occurrence.

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The major function of fantasy is entertainment and sometimes to teach moral.

Ahead of this modern world, stories that have contents of magic and terrible monsters were being presented orally. That was when orature was the order of the days.

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Later, advent of printed literature became established in the world of literature. Classical mythology builds relationship with fantastical stories - events, settings and characters, the utmost known which have been the most relevant to modern world fantasy as the works of Homer from Greece and Virgil from Rome.

The intervention of the Greco-Roman world to fantasy in its effectiveness tremendously involves:

• The heroic journeys of the past heroes with indomitable power that help them achieve unbelievable acquirements.

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• Magical gifts acquired to win deadly battle that no ordinary human being can win. Take for instance, the ring of power as in spectacular story of Gyges presented in the Republic of Plato.

• Prophecies instance of which can be taken from the oracle of Delphi.

• Monsters and creatures specifically story of Dragons. This is popular in films.

• Magicians and witches being expertise in the use of magic both in movies and novels.

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Plato in his philosophy had attained tremendous influence on the fantasy genre.

Considering the Christianity in their Platonic tradition, the reality and authenticity of mutual and closest worlds, an overarching feature of enormous metaphysical and moral significance, gives lent essence to the fantasy worlds of modern literary works of art.