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A Song Of Ice And Fire By George R. Martin

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"A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin is rightfully considered as a modern classic. The author has created an entire fantasy world and put the realistic story into it. He has broken a pattern of fantasy stories as a fairytale and shown how the fantasy world can be both serious and magical simultaneously. How is it possible? Let's see. Even though the magic is implied as a real external phenomenon in the book's world, the magic in this world is a very subjective because the narration provides on behalf of characters, which just people are, so they are subjective like all of the people, and the point-of-view characters hesitate in the reality of the magic, but can't explain the events in another way.

First of all, you may notice that the magic in the World of Ice and Fire is a very subjective phenomenon. No one narrator tells the story. Instead of it, there are lots of story-tellers called point-of-view characters, such as Bran Stark or Tyrion Lannister, and many others. The story flows on behalf of them, and all of them are just human. And they don't know a lot of things. And they make mistakes, they hesitate. …show more content…

As one of the characters said: "Take a lesson, Bran. The man who trusts in spells is dueling with a glass sword" (Martin, G., 1996). Or one more quote: "…The good part [of the service] is there are no grumkins or snarks, so it's scarcely dangerous work" (Martin, G., 1996). It was a quote of Tyrion Lannister who described a service in the Night Watch. The grumkins and snarks are mythical creatures, and Tyrion presumed them as an

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