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Shue, Jordan E.
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Spring 2025
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2025
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Readers who enjoy fantasy literature often turn to these works as a means of escape. However, beyond the entertainment, these novels often reflect real-world political and societal issues. This paper explores how fantasy novels depict complex struggles such as social inequality, power structures, and moral dilemmas of good vs. evil faced in our current society. It is argued that these fictional narratives do more than critique society - they have potential to radicalize the reader's beliefs. Through these works, the portrayal of resistance and injustice that fantasy novels show the readers can act as a driving force for challenging social norms and ideological transformation. In all, fantasy can be used as a form of escapism, however, it can provoke social change and influence radicalization of thought in the real world.
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