Fantasy is fiction that is often set in an imaginary universe. Characters exhibit behavior that is out of the ordinary as seen in A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and also Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The two exhibits a child and young lovers get into a fairy tale kind- of life. They transition into a mundane world, they take part in the activities of the magical world that are away from reality and most often the reader gets immersed in it too. The constructed world moves from the conscious and subconscious and vice versa as seen in the two stories, but more importantly, there is the use of bravery and childhood to create fantasy.
Once Alice Falls into the rabbit hole that is Wonderland, she starts her portal quest of transitioning from one state to another from the time she sees the white rabbit (Carroll 2). A child living in the normal world is transitioned into one that exists in a world outside of the ordinary. She moves from one state or state to another as seen through the change in her manners and sense of order to lack manners and chaos. Alice may have been a stranger in Wonderland, but she works through to navigate all thanks to her bravery and sense of taking everything as it comes her way. It takes a lot of adjusting for Alice to survive in the new world, for example, when she learns that to reach her destination she has to walks away from it.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is equally filled with fairy high jinks, and young lovers are forced into absurd magical romances. Spells are mistakenly cast (Shakespeare 7), and that sparks a series of mishaps and errors that are embraced with lots of bravery by the affected victims in as much as it is clear that their laughter happens as a result of another’s pain and humiliation. These young people are set on a pedestal where they have to overcome obstacles that come their way.
Works Cited
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Chicago: VolumeOne Publishing, 1998.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. London: William Collins, 1998.
