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Escapist Fiction Novels are much more structured than reality.
Reality is Chaotic there are so many shades of gray that they include all the shades of grey.
But that distinction is one of the things that makes Escapist fiction so important. I think that a lot of people yearn for that structure and it's a great place to go to get away from all the madness of real life.
Things are Black and White; Good and Evil; Beautiful and Ugly. There are not so many shades between. At least that's the way it was for quite a while. Today a lot of the fiction starts to have gradients of all of these and comes closer to the chaos of reality.
However there is still the structure that the worlds are made from that have sets of rules that are strictly adhered to(often offered in the light that it makes the story more realistic; yet sometimes reality isn't that structured).
As a contrast it would seem that literary fiction tries to play off of the chaos to gain it's sense of realism.
I know a number of people who read very little 'fiction' usually meaning what is usually defined as escapist fiction. However when I look at what they do read it tends to be historical, biographical stories and I'm uncertain if they realize that those, even when not fictionalized, tend to be structured in such a way that there is order to that persons life or that event in history and in truth that's achieved by leaving a lot of the stuff out that would let messy reality crowd into the story and give it disorder.
The search for escape reading material is a way to shut down the chaos of normal life and bring in some order that we know on some subliminal level simply does not exist in real life.
Reality is Chaotic there are so many shades of gray that they include all the shades of grey.
But that distinction is one of the things that makes Escapist fiction so important. I think that a lot of people yearn for that structure and it's a great place to go to get away from all the madness of real life.
Things are Black and White; Good and Evil; Beautiful and Ugly. There are not so many shades between. At least that's the way it was for quite a while. Today a lot of the fiction starts to have gradients of all of these and comes closer to the chaos of reality.
However there is still the structure that the worlds are made from that have sets of rules that are strictly adhered to(often offered in the light that it makes the story more realistic; yet sometimes reality isn't that structured).
As a contrast it would seem that literary fiction tries to play off of the chaos to gain it's sense of realism.
I know a number of people who read very little 'fiction' usually meaning what is usually defined as escapist fiction. However when I look at what they do read it tends to be historical, biographical stories and I'm uncertain if they realize that those, even when not fictionalized, tend to be structured in such a way that there is order to that persons life or that event in history and in truth that's achieved by leaving a lot of the stuff out that would let messy reality crowd into the story and give it disorder.
The search for escape reading material is a way to shut down the chaos of normal life and bring in some order that we know on some subliminal level simply does not exist in real life.