Symbolism / Stories / Narrative in Games / Motifs

Sam here. A warm welcome to you.

I use this space to post about symbolism and narrative motifs found in a variety of mediums, including life itself. I often focus on video game narratives, as, for such a behemoth of an industry, the staggering and profound art and the complex storytelling therein are generally overlooked by the mainstream. I aim to offer you a map to help identify symbolic patterns that will enrich your own interpretations and help glean the narrative structures and devices that play out over our very lives.

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Why Myth?

Samuel Good

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March 11, 2024

Mythopoeia — myth-making. It is the title of my favourite poem and a term coined by its author, the father of fantasy and creator of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien. The poem came as a response to Tolkien’s friend, colleague, and literary contemporary, C.S. Lewis when the latter claimed that “myths were lies and therefore worthless, even though ‘b…

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