The Popularity of Fiction Through Film and Literature
The Popularity of Fiction Through Film and Literature
Novels are made for informing or maybe for entertainment. Movies also can be used to inform or entertain. But they both are a way to communicate to people in some way or another. In literature to inform people there are autobiographies written and for film making there are documentaries presented in the theater or at a specific time on television. But the majority of audiences will direct themselves to one genre of literature and one genre of film making and that is fiction. Fiction is a faculty for wonder.
Why is fiction a big mediator? In both literature and filmmaking the same elements are used to make the story or novel fiction. There will always be an antagonist (main character) struggling against a protagonist (enemy to the main character). The protagonist can be a physical being to be defeated or the antagonist’s personal inner struggles. A plot is essential to covey thoughts of the reader or audience to discover the idea of the story. These are also other validities to interpret a fictional novel or film they are setting, symbolism, point of view, theme, and irony that make a story fiction. In analyzing fiction in both the literary world and film world examples are essential. For comparison and contrast the movie The Matrix and the novel Gulliver’s Travels will be used. The Matrix is based on a world of technology gone wrong and the absence of reality. Gulliver’s Travels is based on the travel narratives of a lost ship captain.
Fiction can be thought of as imagination. It can be a detailed story that was conjured by the creativity of a person. The protagonist found in the Matrix is named Neo. He is thought of as the Messiah. He was searched for because he was thought to be able to free the minds of imprisoned people within the computer-generated reality by artificial intelligence that took over the world. The machine is the antagonist but there can be another antagonist with in the story. Sometimes antagonists are not always physical objects or beings; there could be a self-conflict. Neo has to believe he is this Messiah that everyone thinks he is. But he is confused and he battles with trying to understand the world he has been given so suddenly. In Gulliver’s Travels Swift uses the character Gulliver to be the narrator. Gulliver is...