Pratchett Witches Abroad Series Of The

Like the Shrek films (starting in 2001) the idea of a parody of fairy tales is a fecund field of plenty and Pratchett has seemingly no end of material from which to draw.

Start by marking Witches Abroad (Discworld, 12; Witches 3) as Want to Read.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skillswhich unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata.

So now its up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on b.

So now its up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesnt marry the Prince.

But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all).

Pratchett uses postmodernism to deconstruct, satirize, and exaggerate many of the stereotypical and unrealistic tropes of legends, mythology, economics, fairytales, fantasy, political science, and humanities.

Subverting the opportunism and uniformity of moral and ethical codexes, witches, night watches, and wizards are sawing on the wrong, awful, and dishonest foundations of Western culture.

No matter what, close to each system has some inherent self destruct or madness buttons, and Pratchett, Monty Python, and some lesser known others laid the cornerstone for groundbreaking, extremely dark new works.

Pratchett Witches Abroad Series Of The

The continuation of this process towards the morbid can be seen in the amazing adult animation series of the 21st century, while, in contrast, Pratchett is mainly satirizing and using the formula of changed motivations and personalities to give both laughter and insights.

Back to the show: The witches arent as directly violent as other characters, they use the soft magic of headologie and altruism to help avoiding disasters or with mundane everyday problems.

I would subjectively guess that Pratchett liked his female characters and women in general the most, because he puts most positive, progressive ideas in their minds while all other male characters stay pretty dull, egoistic, or good oldfashioned different stages of insanity.

Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are one of the best friend pairings in the Discworld, a symbiotic relationship, also completely differing from the male friendships, later becoming less important when Tiffany Aching enters the stage.

But while the males are primarily fighting, alphaing, posing, and incompetencing around, Granny and Nanny dont just care for everyone else, but have a long going, emancipated womance.

A bit of laughing about tourism is in there too and the all time favorite of marriage politics can never be bad.

Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: This one is added to all Pratchettian reviews: The idea of the dissected motifs rocks, highlighting the main real world inspirational elements of fiction and satire is something usually done with so called higher literature, but a much more interesting field in readable literature, as it offers the joy of reading, subtle criticism, and feeling smart all together.

Not that either story are very much similar at all, except that the most charismatic part of each was the mesmerizing interaction between the characters.

Just as Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall (who each played multiple characters) were the most enjoyable part of that otherwise mediocre film, so too does the dialogue between Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Og, and Magrat Garlick make this 1991 Pratchett Dis.

In this the twelfth Discworld book, Sir Terry revisits his Witches sub-series that he left in 1988s Wyrd Sisters and to marvelous effect a fairy godmother has died and so the three must travel to Genua to settle matters.

This presents a vehicle whereby Pratchett, comic genius that he is, to explore and have fun with fairy tales and folklore of all sorts.

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