From the naïve manner Jack told the wizard “I am Prince because my father is King” (234) as he was kept as an idle prisoner to the assertive how he said “I can try … or perhaps die trying.” (253) in his quest to collect the mirror shards, the coming-of-age tropes do not leave the medieval world. Delany impressively included many fantasy elements like the quest and romance in a medieval sense. For example, there is the theme of a condensed bildungsroman in Prismatica, where a prince must quest to find the right woman fit for his bride and also find in himself the qualities fit to be king. ![]() Much of Prismatica also emulates the common medieval era that many fantasy novels are set to. These setting descriptions showed the natural habitat of the characters and therefore are reflections of their personalities and moral allegiance. Even the setting and origins of the characters were indications of either good or evil, like how the ship of the grey man had a “boat with the broken glass” (243) and “the green and yellow meadows to the golden castle” that was the Far Rainbow kingdom. These were the two main allegiances in the story and Amos, the protagonist was also expectedly designed to befriend Jack, where even Amos’ “bright red hair” was an indication of him being a morally good character. There is an extreme polarization between the appearance of the “tall, thin, and grey” man (225) and Jack, the prince of the Far Rainbow. Like Lev mentioned how some adults perceive fantasy to be “just for children”, the ‘good versus evil’ trope in Prismatica seemed fit for the younger audience in that it was presented in a polarized manner easy for one to distinguish between the two forces. Delany had somehow managed to escape all expectations and only lifted the veil off his readers at the very end to show that the unknown ‘monster in the trunk’ was a part of the Sci-Fi genre, a modern notion of fiction that is almost entirely discrete from the medieval fantasy. ![]() Almost all of Prismatica’s elements would fall into the fantasy genre if not for an essential part of the story being resolved in a completely different and bizarre manner uncommon to the fantasy genre. The style of writing Delany adopted also adhered to the traditional genre of fantasy, in which the characters dressed and behaved extraordinarily. ![]() Coming-of-age, magic, adventuring and the battle between good and evil are all fantasy tropes that could be found in Prismatica. Delany in Prismatica, which were mentioned in Lev Grossman’s article. There are certainly tropes and conventions adopted by Samuel R.
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