Morse, Donald E.Borsos, Imola2013-06-052013-06-052009-04-152013-06-05http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170335Fantasy literature has evolved to “compensate for the growing rationalization of culture, work, and family life in Western society, to defend the imagination of children” – states Jack Zipes (169). As it is developed to fill one’s lack of magic in everyday life, it builds up on our longing away. Fantasy tales represent our basic urge to restrict the impact of society and everyday routine on our lives. But the desired world is not a one that has no order, “instead, it is an insistent search for an ordered world more satisfying than the real one, a sober striving to deal with the crisis of experience we are undergoing” (Zipes, 176). J. K. Rowling’s books of the little wizard, Harry Potter, are also based on this hunger. Not only we, readers long for a better life but also the main character Harry who is also daydreaming about some magical luck that would give him a loophole from his miserable life at his step parents... (Introduction)40enRowlingHarry Potterpersonal developmentmagicdiplomamunkaDEENK Témalista::Irodalomtudományip