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guideline, the current attitude
advocated by society regulates acceptable behaviour on the one
hand and reprehensible behaviour on the other hand. Obviously,
due to the interrelation
between
society and its literature, statements made in form of the nature of literary main
characters comment on the situation of society and vice versa. For this reason,
great
importance is attached to the judgment of fictional characters on the basis of the above-
mentioned parameters.
Eternal confrontation between the binary poles of good and evil is the central thread
running through the history of mankind, and it is against this background
that literary and
historical heroes and villains raise and fall. Above all, fantasy literature reflects those
tensions, presents, adapts and interprets them in manifold ways.
Be it God and Satan, Cain
and Abel, Beowulf and Grendel, or, more recently, Gandalf and Saruman,
Luke Skywalker
and Darth Vader, Harry Potter and Voldemort, the formula appears universal. Over the
millennia, the polarised antagonism of personified good and evil has
revealed a very stable
essence, vital for both structure and form of modern fantasy literature.
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