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What Is The Literary Value Of Harry Potter Dystopian Culture

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Like most kids, I was dreaming of receiving an acceptance letter from Hogwarts to whisk me away from our dreary world while gradually swallow the fact of being a muggle. Over the course of its publication, Harry Potter series has gained enormous popularity among readers universally, not only with children but with adults counterparts as well. As a result of its phenomenal success and ubiquitous values in literature, numerous scholarly reviews and literary analysis have been conducted, most frequently on the themes of love, death, and religions. As Colin suggests in “The Literary Value of Harry Potter Books,” a closer insight of the book reviews the sophistication and mirrors the social issues much more than generally expected (Colin, 1-21). …show more content…

But as the series progresses, it is not hard to come to realize that the world full of liquorice wands and pumpkin fizz with wonders and marvels are actually, though thought-provokingly, saturated with dystopian themes and elements as more of the darker aspects are brought to light. Through examining the typical dark features depicted in Harry Potter, including the tyranny of the ordinary, prejudice between races, and circumscription of individual freedoms, scholar Kaisa dives into the dystopian aspects of the serious with their detrimental influences on the wizarding world (Kaisa, 2017). Although the theme of dystopia has been opened up, very little political and social aspects of it in Harry Potter has been mentioned in scholarly works, which definitely worths much deeper

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