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fandomsecrets2012-07-02 06:36 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-07-02 06:36 pm
[ SECRET POST #2008 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2008 ⌋
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True, but it's not like we don't absorb things about the world through our fiction. It's not wholly meaningless. I (and many others) would argue it's not the least bit meaningless at all. Think of what the stories that are hundreds of years old (Arthur, Beowulf, One Thousand and One Nights, The Tale of Genji) tell us about the people of those times.
And personally, wish fulfillment or not, I find characters hooking up in unrealistic ways is a form of poor character development and poor understanding of human feelings and interactions in general, which related to my overall conception of fiction. What is that makes characters in fiction compelling, even when they ostensibly belong to a species with little human resemblance in a world that doesn't actually exist?
I can feel for Harry Dresden who is a male wizard in Chicago who has survived numerous battles, none of which I personally relate to. I can feel for Arwen when I watch LotR, though I'm certainly not an elf faced with the decision of turning down immortality. It boils down to how much emotional resonance they have with us, how real they seem.
And of course, that's not the same for every person. But neither should it just be taken for granted that "it's fiction, realism doesn't factor in at all" or that everyone is looking for wish fulfillment from their fiction.