What Can Fantasy Teach Me About Reality?
A great blog explaining what Fantasy can teach us about reality.
Originally posted on Jeff Coleman Writes:
Who doesn’t enjoy a good story?
Fiction is an indispensable part of the human experience. Without it, the world would be a cold and dreary place. Imagination is essential for one’s sanity and happiness. But we always go into fiction with the understanding that what we’re experiencing isn’t real. Though we choose to suspend disbelief, there’s always that part of our brain that maintains the distinction between reality and fantasy. A vast unbridgeable chasm exists between the two. One is real. The other is not.
You might reasonably ask yourself, “what can fantasy teach me about reality?” The answer, of course, is, “quite a lot!”
Fantasy teaches us about real people.
Though names and circumstances are spun from the threads of dreams and fancy, the underlying nature of the characters and the ways in which they behave are based on real people. An author, in the process of forging his…
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