Fantasy
Traditional Fantasy
-Old as humanity
-Orgin unknown
-Their authors unknown
-Preserved in print by collectors
Categories of traditional fantasy:
-Cumulative Tales- Added upon as the telling unfolds.
-Pourquoi Tales- Pourquoi means "why" in French. Answer questions and why things are in nature
-Beast Tales- The animals are principal players. (The three little pigs)
-Noodle Head, or numbskull tales- Humorous stories centered on the escapades of characters
not to bright.
-Trickster tales- Variety of beasttales. Character outsmarts everyone in story.
-Realistic tales- Basis in an actual historical events.
-Fairy tales or wonder tales- Is most magical. (Snow white)
-Tall tales- John Appleseed, John Henry, and etc.
-Fables- breif stories meant to teach a lesson.
-Myths- Early peoples need to understand and explain the world.
-Epic- Lengthy hero tales or even series focusing on a hero. (The Illiad, Return of Odysseus, the
Odyssey)
-Ballads- are hero stories in poetic form. (The Illiad and the Odyssey)
-Legends- are rooted a bit more firmly in history. (King Arthur)
Modern Fantasy
-Author is known.
Categories of Modern Fantasy
-Animal fantasy- is the tag often given to stories that depart from reality exclusively because
of talking animals, such as Charlottes Web.
-Toys- Pinocchio
-Imaginary- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
-High fantasy- The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.
Traditional/Modern Fantasy
-Both traditional and Modern Fantasy are distinguished from other genres by story elements that violate the natural,
physical laws of our known world- events akin to magic.
Six Basic Fantasy Motifs
-Magic- most basic element
-Other worlds (secondary worlds)
-Good verse Evil
-Heroism
-Same pattern for hero where the hero has a circular journey, ending where it begins (hero's journey).
-Special character types. (Fairies, gaints, witches, Vampires, and etc.)
-Fantastic objects. (Fantastic objects for example magic cloaks, swords, mirrors, and etc.)
Point of View
Point of view- is the related experiece of the narrator not that of the author. Authors rarely, in fiction insert or
inject their own voice, as this challegeds the suspension of disbelief. Texts encourage the reader to indentify with narrator,
not with the author.
Types of point of view:
-First person- The narrator is a character in the story. "I"
-Second person- Protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person. Personal pronouns
such as "you"
-Third person- The author does not enter a single mind, but records what can be seen and heard. Narrator is like a camera
or a fly on the wall.
Protagonist VS Antagonist
-Protagonist- is a term used to refer to a figure or figures in literature whose
intentions are primary focus of a story. Classically protagonists are derived from good. Sometimes though a story can be without
opposition or antagonist.
-Antagonist- is that against which the protagonist or antagonist. Antagonist is often the villian.
