Essays on Fantastic

In Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, and Matthew Lewis’ The Monk, fantastic elements are employed to reveal the more evil aspects of human existence. In both novels, characters encounter events that can be deemed unexplainable by natural means; certain plot points bleed into areas...

In the Alice book series, Lewis Carroll succeeded in creating a playful and fantastic world, full of ‘personal’ mythologies; mythologies that continue to amaze and transform audiences in large numbers, gaining momentum and interest in the future, in various mediums such as plastic arts or...

The Hunger Games is a novel in a trilogy created by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games takes place in a futuristic city called Panem. Panem has thirteen districts surrounding it, within one of those districts is a sixteen year old girl named Katniss Everdeen. Katniss...

To most, the world The Maze Runner by James Dashner appears as a fantasy world but in reality, The Maze Runner is a situation that Earth will be in very soon. The series has many places that have an equivalent to real-life places giving the...

Humankind is intricate, we have ongoing themes associating us; clashes isolating us and wars pitting us against each other. Be that as it may, we are still human. We may not all think alike on a surface level, but further investigation of Human Nature uncovers...