film because of the imaginative and dark fantasy storyline. It received numerous awards and such as Academy Awards for Best Cinematography‚ Best Art Design‚ and Best Makeup. Pan’s Labyrinth is about a young girl named Ofelia who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her new husband/stepfather—Captain Vidal during the Spanish Civil War in Spain through the Francoist period. To escape the hardships of the real world‚ Ofelia delves into a fantasy world. There she discovers a deserted labyrinth
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then do the words really mean anything? On the other side‚ a reader cannot exist without a writer. Therefore the relationship is one of symbiosis a relationship of mutual benefit or dependence. I view the writer as someone who is writing for my pleasure‚ and hopefully for theirs as well. To pick up a book and be transported to another time‚ place‚ world etc for a few hours is the ultimate experience for me‚ and I would assume‚ what the writer is aiming for when they are constructing work
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talk to animals through thoughts and can use magical powers. This novel closely adheres to the narrative conventions of Fantasy. The characters develop include a male hero‚ as well as many mythological creatures. With one medieval‚ fantasy set realm‚ the novel’s setting is similarly highly fantastical. Having a male lead follows this narrative convention. As expected in a fantasy novel the protagonist‚ Eragon‚
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In our increasingly competitive world‚ the key to professional success is linked to our ability to be creative. Everyone will agree that creativity stems from a well-developed imagination. Before one can create any one “thing”‚ it must have been imagined by someone. Dr. Montessori opined‚ “We often forget that imagination is a force for the discovery of truth.”1 Imagination‚ like so many other things‚ has its sensitive period in early childhood. However‚ there are no dolls‚ talking animals or
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Folklore‚ fantasy‚ and traditional literature. Folklore or folktales are stories‚ poems‚ fairy tales‚ oral history and legends which are the traditions of a culture‚ or a country. Such stories are about ancient wars‚ epic hero tales‚ ballads‚ or mythology just to name a few. I personally grew up reading mostly folktales from authors in the Middle East such as The Shahnameh by the Persian poet Ferdowsi which was a collective of epic poems about mythical and historical past of Iran. My favourite
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of 2012 Foreign Film Series at 7:00 pm in October 9th. I was so excited that the Art History Organization gave us a chance to watch a Spanish film called Pan’s Labyrinth. I had heard of it before‚ but I had never watched it. This film combined the fantasy world and the real world perfectly. That is to say‚ it is a film of magic realism. I was attracted by the plot of the film‚ and I was astonished by the director’s conception and the visual effects even though a few scenes were a little bit disgusting
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THEORETICAL PART 1.1 Major Anglo-American fantasy sagas and their factual aspects Similarly‚ as George R. R. Martin also other authors of fantasy sagas drew inspiration from real life historical events or used literary devices such as allegory. Two of the major authors are J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis‚ whose most significant works respectively are The Lord of the Rings trilogy along with Hobit and The Chronicles of Narnia. 1.1.1 Classis Anglo-American fantasy sagas and their alleged factographic sources
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Norton defines and explains the concepts of Modern Fantasy. Modern Fantasy is a genre of literature that is consisted of story elements that are impossible to happen in real life and/or imaginary. The place‚ setting‚ characters‚ or the event of the story of modern fantasy are impossible to be real or happen in real life. The genre of modern fantasy is very similar to the genre of traditional literature and the only difference is that modern fantasy stories are not originally told orally. Traditional
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she liked are crushed when she falls into the hands of prince Joffrey and his henchman Sandor Clegane. It is also interesting to note the irony contained in the fact that Sansa’s brutal punishment is carried out by the saviors of maidens in the old fantasy genre‚ namely a prince (Joffrey) and a knight (Clegane). Although Sansa’s awakening from her illusions to the ways of the world seems harsh and cruel‚ through it she learns to use her wits more: “But a voice inside her whispered‚ There are no heroes
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Cather’s MY ÁNTONIA "Optima dies ... prima fugit." My Ántonia‚ by Willa Cather‚ is a modernist novel that recounts and celebrates the past through the relationship of man and the natural world. Cather incorporates an epigraph at the start of the novel from Virgil’s Georgics that means “The best days…are the first to flee‚” which is integrated by many elements throughout the story as it is the epicenter in which the themes of the novel revolve. For those who aren’t familiar Georgics consists of
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