Dreams Broken

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Post 13 - The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

Outside Source

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7HOwFuZ_ixY

Analysis

This Final Fantasy VII clip demonstrates many properties of a Fantasy World. The properties include the theme of many of my previous posts: Good and Evil – Defined, The Impossible Made Possible, and a Vicarious Journey. Please see other posts for details. This video clip also reflects the theme of this post.

Why is one drawn to Fantasy Worlds? What properties or qualities do these worlds posses that make them so captivating to one?

Perhaps, one of the properties that Fantasy Worlds posses that make them so appealing is: they’re characters break their dreams. In The Fellowship of the Ring, by JRR Tolkien, Sam, a small town gardener, always dreamed about meeting elves. His excitement to go on this journey to see elves is shown as he says, “Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!’ he shouted, and then burst into tears” (The Fellowship of the Ring, 63). Unknowingly, he breaks his dream of living a simple Hobbit life in Hobbiton, the Hobbit village. This is an attractive quality because it allows the reader to experience the risk of characters as they break their life long goals in search of another. In a way, this idea is similar to living vicariously through the book’s characters (which is a topic on a previous post).

A Fantasy World that has people, who break their dreams, therefore is a truly captivating world.