This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
The magic is you can change more things than you could ever dream of.
Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.