The World Inside
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Authors
Moran, Lauren M.
Issue Date
2010
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Thesis
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en_US
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My project approaches storytelling from the age-old tradition of folktales. I think
that folktales have this element of magic that keeps them alive. What I mean is that these
stories have somehow managed to survive for thousands of years; they have been passed
from mouth to ear to ink and still hold such incredible insight into the human condition.
Amazingly, people have been struggling all this time with the same issues. Elements of
folklore have woven themselves into the characters I have created and the worlds in
which they live. The characters struggle to find meaning in their lives and grapple with
personal relationships, expectations, and death. Some of the stories place the characters in
relatively extraordinary circumstances and in settings that could only occur in a folktale.
The characters, however, must deal with very true problems while learning to negotiate
the environment in which they inhabit. Other stories in this collection focus less on the
external locations but more on internal feelings, with subtle references to folktales and
common motifs found in them.
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