EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kenning
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Effects and tone ( atmosphere ) overall tone or effect. Games themes that go with them: skillfulness, playfulness, seriousness, childhood, moral choice and decision, innocence, strategy, loyalty and allegiance ( sides , teams ) Archetype: knowledge, wisdom, power, control, the unknowable, mystery, what is hidden or secret, wise woman (witch, wise man (magi, magical object i. e. , the ring. The one ring (symbol) magnifies, exaggerates, draws out. The ring as both as symbol and archetypal motif shows the truth of the possessor; as the genre of fantasy wants to do. The combination of the familiar and the fantastic and the creation of secondary worlds. Secondary world: a fictional location or story setting common to fantasy, science fiction, and other fictions which takes place in an imaginative realm. Tolkien drawing from actual british peoples to create this secondary world: celts, angles, saxons, iberians. Realism makes us believe this world could have existed.
