I posted this picture on Instagram because I really love how Alexander expresses fantasy. Lloyd Alexander is one the most influential writers in the 20th century. He wrote many fantasy/fiction books that supported his famous quote, and argued that fantasy doesn't evade life's problems and can teach the audience how to cope with tribulations in life. Lloyd found fantasy stories very valuable and complex, able to comprehend what it means to be a human, how we go face the good and evil in life daily, and knowing what's right or wrong. Tolkien and Chesterton wants the audience to go back to reality after reading the end of the story, they don't want the reader to stay in the fantasy world, but instead be re-energise with an understanding of the story.
Children and some adults think that fiction/fantasy/fairy tales, keeps readers away from nature itself. I think Lloyd is telling society that fantasy is a way of understanding reality, not being the exodus of reality. When Tolkien wrote
The Lord of the Rings, he allegorized the ring as sin and Aragon as Christ. Tolkien didn't just write a simple story of all these different kind of creatures of Middle Earth. He wrote a fantasy story that had many allegories of the reality of truth, which is Jesus Christ. The
Rings series and
The Chronicles of Narnia have a great theme of good vs. evil that we human beings face daily. We may not battle evil physically, but we do face it spiritually in our daily lives.
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