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Fantasy Essay Ideas - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 'substitute for place, and an indication that we have to travel; they also, however, fix the interpretation of a landscape'
      - 'maps are no more geography than chronology and legend are history, but in portal-quest fantasies, they complete the denial of discourse'
      - defined by two elements - MAP & FIXED PAST
- - - - half animals / half divine
    - - helps man get his inheritance from evil brothers
      - cat but human
        
        kills "ogre" when it is a mouse - using cat skills
        
        'mysterious double nature of the cat'
      - 'a tomcat is expected to be adventurous and mischievous. She-cats are, as earlier mentioned, connected to feminine witchcraft, shape-shifting, mystery, and sexuality;
  - - - the Cat in the Hat 'incorporates both the trickster and the magical helper aspect of the folklore cat'
      - 'attack on parental authority'
        
        but has to be reinstated at the end
  - - - versus pet cat, Dinah
      - 'in Alice's imagination Dinah is a liminal figure...and a most tangible link between the strange Wonderland and the secure home'
      - 'instead of a Wise Old Woman in feline shape we meet a trickster more suitable for a masculine, patricidal story'
      - 'mythical guide'
      - both trickster and benevolent guide
        
        the only one in Wonderland who is nice to Alice
      - 'an image of an image', changing depending on setting
      - removed from the plot - just a guide
    - - 'haughty black cat' belongs to both worlds - it is NOT reflected double (like Coraline)
      - 'I'm not the other anything. I'm me...You people are spread all over the place. Cats, on the other hand, keep ourselves together"
      - 'We know who we are, so we don't need names'
      - 'in this novel, as in many others, the ability of cats to breach fluctuant boundaries between alternative worlds is masterly exploited'
  - - - The series can also be read as an allegory, or rather metaphor, following the typical story line of an adolescent gang novel (p. 18)
      - 'to counterbalance the harsh social realism, in Warrior Cats, strong elements of the occult are woven into the story'
        
        blend of genres - 'high fantasy' with 'adolescent gang novel'
      - 'allegorical dimension' means doesn't have to be mimetic
      - cats means adult themes (pg 264) - including repressed sexuality in domestic space (castration at start)
        
        'using cats as a disguise for human beings'
        
        metatextual liminal boundary
        
        'yet it necessarily alienates the reader by the exterior and life conditions of the characters'
      - Into the wild
    - - ''the reason can be the unquestionable appeal of the felines originating in their mystical nature, their independence and cunning, and the peculiar combination of devotion and treachery'
- - - - 'invited through into the fatastic'
      - even tho world can have "always" existed, defined by protagonist's negotiating and learning about new world
    - - 'the fantastic enters the fictional world'
    - - 'the magic hovers in the corner of our eye'
    - - 'we are allowed no escape'
- - - - goes when no one else does
        
        'I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your cave'
- - - - 'total control over his appearance and disappearance'
- - - - 'enable young readers to identify with the animals' --> unifies different children in can all relate
      - 'the flight of fantasy itself'
        
        animals that talk 'let us in on another world which we may not be able to see without their help'
        
        worlds with 'social structures and social behaviour that mimic and express our own'
        
        everyone needs to participate in an occasional flight into fantasy