ABSTRACT
The fantasies to be considered are neither set entirely in the primary world, where the marvellous occurs exceptionally, nor are they set, entirely or completely, in a totally conceived secondary world, with all the imaginative complexity which that entails. Their structures are inevitably thrown into sharp juxtaposition, while action in the secondary world may parallel hidden tensions and desires in the primary world. The parallels established are between different eras of the same physical world. Mark and Marianne must circumvent the dangers partly by means of Marianne’s drawings in the primary world, and partly through actions in the secondary world; the two parallel worlds are thus more closely linked than in many other cases. Greatest artistic success in the parallelism between the primary world and a secondary world of mental landscape seems to result where there are clear symbolic parallels, and when both worlds are fully realized.
