Youth Diversion from the Reality Through Fiction and Fantasy

Abstract

The study concentrates on how fantasy fiction is becoming important part of youth lives and help them to escape from the real world. By watching and reading this genre youth escape from reality and make their world of imagination. From witches to the fairy, dragon to unicorns and from superheroes to monsters, most of the youth grew up hearing these stories from their parents which carries this supernatural and fantastical element in it from the age of three itself, kids were exposed to this fantasy element. Youth started believing in these fantastical elements and gradually after long exposure to it, they make it part of their lives. The study focused on respondents from the age of 13 to 35. Survey method is used, and the research tool was closed ended questionnaire. The study throws light on how the teenagers, youth and millennial are reaching to this fantasy fiction world and how they affect them. In this research, users and gratification theory are used as an approach to understanding why and how people actively seek out specific media to satisfy their needs. The research will also make understand the process of escaping, through a media form.