The Unfulfilled Fulfilled in the Harry Potter Series
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
The Harry Potter series has been lauded AND CRITICISED for a plethora of reasons. The very fact that it made its nearly bankrupt author, J.K Rowling very popular and one of the richest ladies in Britain compels one to think that that there must be a mysterious aesthetic content which lends the series its massive global appeal. Does she have a magic formula up her sleeves which seems to cater to so many and such a diverse readership/audience? Or could it be that we all are searching for a sense offulfilment of some of our superficial or deep seated desires as a human race as a whole and as individuals with age and cultural differences as we flip through the pages of these books?The present paper attempts to analyse the adventures of the protagonist and his allies from the reader/audience point of view . It aims to find some of the most basic and catered- to fantasies, desires and drives of the reader repressed in his/her subconscious that find an expression in the quest of the protagonist. The paper shifts the focus from the quest of the Hero to the parallel aesthetic responsein the heart of the reader.
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Akanksha Bahukhand
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