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Fantasy Text Analysis

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Composers of Fantasy texts successfully use Fantasy conventions to engage their audience by magical worlds. Fantasy text composers make their own magical world since it will engage their audience. Most worlds, you'll notice, are full of magic meaning wizards are very common. The audience is attracted to the text as the Fantasy composers use magical worlds, they create rules,maps,languages and cultures. Composers of Fantasy texts do it fantastically so that the audience will understand fictional worlds and their rules like the characters in the text does. It gives a sense of escapism to the audience allowing them to use their imagination to escape the real world. In some Fantasy texts, magical worlds are hidden within the real world which, can …show more content…

Like how muggle technology doesn't work in a magical and mystical environment and how a muggle train station doesn't have platform 9 3/4. She also used some creatures from mythology, such as a phoenix and centaurs, and invented legends of her own, like the tale of "The Three Brothers". The audience is successfully engaged in the rest of the film as it is a completely different world from the real world causing them to be excited. This example can also fit with "The Hobbit", J.R.R Tolkien starts his story by describing what world the hobbits are in, he brought us Middle-earth and the lovable hobbits, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort ". The audience is interested as the composer continues with the story since the audience finds out what is left to discover of this wonderful world they are reading. As we can see from these examples, readers find excitement when they read stories with magical worlds that the composer made …show more content…

Fantasy composers rely on Fantasy conventions to make their stories interesting; using magical items and objects such as wands, flying brooms, vorpal swords, staffs and invisibility cloaks/rings/hats, readers are interested in the story. Fantasy composers also use magical items to distinguish the fantasy world from the real world. Magical items often are the source of the climax or conflict since they either make the protagonist have magical powers or have magic themselves, causing the evil villain to have a craving for more power; this makes the audience wonder how would the evil villain capture it. The audience adores reading about how the magical object has such a great impact on the story that it causes the characters and the protagonist to go on an adventure. For example, in "The Hobbit", the conflict is caused by an invisibility ring called,"The Lord of the Rings". We know of its importance because of how Gollum describes it as,"My precious" and overreacts when he discovers that Bilbo Baggins stole his ring "Curse it! Curse it! Curse the Baggins!" in the text. The conflict is then started as Gollum tries to get his ring back. This can also be seen in "The Harry Potter series". The story has a conflict as Voldemort, who wants to be the owner of the Elder Wand, so he will do everything in his power to take it; Voldemort believes that he can kill Harry

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