Why People Read Fantasy Novels?

Fantasy novels are  famous because they allow human imaginations to go wide without any limits. In these novels, the imagination is not only of the writer but the reader's imaginations also wander into different worlds. There are no limitations to imaginations so people love to read fantasy, as fantasy is more exciting than reality. The most famous fantasy novels of all time are "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien; "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling;"The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis; "Alice in Wonderland" by Charles Lutwidge and the most recent of them "The Twilight Saga" by Stephenie Meyer. All these novels have become famous among people of all ages. The thing that makes these novels so famous and different from other fantasy novels is that in these novels, authors have created whole different world through their imaginations. These are far from reality so people loves to read them.

These imaginative characters and stories are not reality and people can hardly relate themselves to the characters, they can relate few characteristics of characters, but overall the characterization is total fantasy and not present in real world; then why people loves to read fantasy novels? Why they treat these characters as their ideals rather than people in real world? The answer is very simple, these stories give power to the readers in imagining anything they want, and the characters  have all the qualities that people lack in real world, so people find every good thing in these novels and the most important is that good always beats evil, which give some hope to the people that it will happen in real world as well. Hope has enabled humans to survive; therefore giving hope to people is the key of gaining their trust.

There are movies made on these novels but those who have read the novels hate the movies and claim that the movies directors and screenplay writers have ruined the whole thing. Why is that so? It is commonly said that a picture is worth of thousands words. The reason is that every human has different mind and different imagination, the meaning of one sentence is perceived differently by two peoples. When people read these stories, they create whole world in their own mind, people imagine while reading it's just like watching movie. But when they watch movie and see different characters and places than they have imagined they don't accept it. Because everyone likes his/her own imagination and it is very difficult to make people think as you think.

Different in perceptions is the basic thing which makes movies based on fantasy novels not as good as the novels. There is one more thing to note that when writer is writing a novel, he/she has different perception and readers may perceive it differently but writer don't force the reader to imagine but give readers a power to perceive that is why fantasy novels are subject to mega success.