ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World War I, Fanta

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

1: presents an alternate realm or world complete with maps, histories, and cultures worked out in intricate detail. 2: suggests that individual action can help to shape large events. 3: examines reality without the burden of realism. 4: tends to be set in pre-industrial, medieval societies. To be able to communicate to us, every story has to have something real in it. History has happened, realism could happen, romance and fantasy are more unlikely (closer to departing from reality. ) We need to decide what is noteworthy in a story. People had hard time integrating their beliefs into society. Belief systems being put under pressure by science and history. Naturalism had effect on people due to reactions to wwi. Perhaps fantasy is popular because it brings back the old form of story-telling. Archetypal hero always has flaws, they have to move past them. General elements, common in whatever culture they happen to be in.