#Fantastical characters series
While magical realism stays grounded in our own reality, fantasy breaks free of it.While the list of things that Final Fantasy has gifted the gaming world is much longer than the one we’re bringing you today, one of the most consistently incredible aspects of this legendary RPG franchise is the quality of its casts of characters.Įven if you’ve only played one or two Final Fantasy games in your lifetime (or perhaps even just absorbed elements of the series through its prominent place in gaming culture) you likely know at least one Final Fantasy character. Fantasy creates different places and species, ones that exist outside of our world. It also features a ring that bestows power but corrupts those who possess it. The trilogy’s characters include Hobbits, who are little people with big feet, as well as Elves, Dwarves, Fairies, Ents, and Wizards. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a popular example of fantasy. While magical realism situates readers in a predominantly realistic world, fantasy takes place in an unreal world with unreal characters. Garcia Marquez exaggerates this occurrence in One Hundred Years of Solitude, but he’s also highlighting the very real kind of magic that exists in our daily lives.įantasy is very different. On one of these occasions, I found my grandmother trying to shoo away a butterfly with a duster, saying, 'Whenever this man comes to the house, that yellow butterfly follows him.' That was Mauricio Babilonia in embryo. When I was about five, one day an electrician came to our house in Aracataca to change the meter. In an interview with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Garcia Marquez shares this anecdote: This is a fantastic detail, yet it is based in reality.
For example, in Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mauricio Babilonia is always followed by a fluttering of yellow butterflies. In The Fragrance of Guava, Garcia Marquez argues that strictly realistic literature can be “too static and exclusive a vision of reality.” Though it stretches the bounds of reality, magical realism acknowledges that magic is inherent in our day-to-day life. And the story is anchored in details the reader recognizes from her own reality: rain, sea and sky, a chicken coop. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is populated with human characters, such as Pelayo’s feverish newborn and the local priest, Father Gonzaga. Still, the extraordinary is firmly rooted in the ordinary.
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” Pelayo finds an angel with “huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked” in his courtyard after a rainstorm. In Stacey Richter’s “The Cavemen in the Hedges,” cavemen scurry in backyards, rummage through trash, and adore shiny objects. In Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa awakes one morning to find he has turned into a giant insect. In magical realism the world appears much like our own, but also includes an element of the extraordinary. What is magical realism? How is it different than fantasy?
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