Fiction and Lies
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
‘Lies’ and ‘Fiction’
are different, we believe that what is told by the writers is Fiction which is
unknown to us as the history itself a fiction as it is told in a different way
as the reality and its way of the representation is quite different. We can’t
say that history is lie because we don’t the exact history but if we know the
truth and it is told as lie, we can’t accept it as ‘Will to truth’, Harry Potter didn’t accept the lie of
the Dumbuldore because he knew him very well. It happens that Fiction is also
lie told by writers and historians but we don’t know exact reality, so we can’t
say that it is totally lie.
In the write up of
Ursula K. Guin, she has described that we fiction writers make up stuff. Some
of it clearly impossible, some of it realistic, but none of it real - all
invented, imagined and we call it fiction because it isn’t fact. We may call
some of it “alternative history” or “an alternate universe,” but make
absolutely no pretense that our fictions are “alternative facts.” (Le Guin,
2017)
In this point, we can
give the example of the ‘Harry Potter’
by J K Rowling which is considered as fantasy novel, if we overview it we
find the events that is happen through magic, it is almost impossible and some
parts like abuse or insult of poor class people by the upper class people that
is realistic but if we look at the characters, events, magical things etc are
all invented or imagined not real one. We call it fiction because it doesn’t have
facts, we may also call Potter’s world ‘alternate
universe’ which is created not real.
Ed Dickerson gave very interesting examples of what is lies
and fiction trough the example of films that ‘The film is fiction, indeed
fantasy. But it is, in the deepest sense, true’ and many
factual stories accurately reflect events and activities but are false in the
deep sense. So, we can’t completely say that fiction always tell truth and
Factual Stories tell always truth. (Dickerson, 2013)
In Post truth era, we can’t say that what is truth and what
is lie because the lies also became truth by misrepresentation of the real
events that is happened as in daily newspaper, what is printed regularly is
also a half truth or may be lie because it is affected by the power politics and
money which change truth into lie.
Works Cited
Dickerson, E. ( 2013, January 23). Fiction and
Lies. Retrieved march 5, 2018, from www.outlook.com:
https://outlookmag.org/fiction-and-lies/
Le Guin, U. K. (2017,
Feb 2). Ursula K. Le Guin Wants Everyone to Know the Huge Difference
Between 'Alternative Facts' and Fiction. Retrieved March 5, 2018, from
www.gizmodo.com:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/ursula-k-le-guin-wants-everyone-to-know-the-huge-diffe-1791937356?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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