Cavelos: fantasy explores humanity's reaction to evil (while sf does the same for technology). She edited lots of novels in which evil is committed by the mentally disturbed, and that explanation can also take away free will. Fantasy is a way to wrestle with this.
I don't think that's all fantasy does, but it's a very useful thing for it to do. That being the case, it is perfectly appropriate for fantasy writers to modulate the types of evil they write about, to image those reactions and responses. Otherwise, you come across as a bit of a twit, like Morrow, wasting your time objecting to the whole notion of something when you could be exploring, or at least refuting it.
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Date: 2007-07-11 05:54 pm (UTC)Cavelos: fantasy explores humanity's reaction to evil (while sf does the same for technology). She edited lots of novels in which evil is committed by the mentally disturbed, and that explanation can also take away free will. Fantasy is a way to wrestle with this.
I don't think that's all fantasy does, but it's a very useful thing for it to do. That being the case, it is perfectly appropriate for fantasy writers to modulate the types of evil they write about, to image those reactions and responses. Otherwise, you come across as a bit of a twit, like Morrow, wasting your time objecting to the whole notion of something when you could be exploring, or at least refuting it.