ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ursula K. Le Guin
1 Jun 2016
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A wizard of earthsea cont - ursula leguin. Why is fantasy so popular? because it revists the two oldest archetypes: quest and hero archetype. Hero: the person is just a person, but there are external conflicts that the heroic person needs to overcome. But when we get more psychological, the conflicts can be their own negative desires and they need to overcome that you need to look at conflicts through a symbolic lens (reference) to understand how we think. Because she doesn"t want you to focus on the plot. Also, she makes a point saying that this hero is human (not just popped out of the womb as an awesome person. the narrator is almost talking in a dream like state. When we dream, it"s very frantic, strong, but once we wake up its distant.
