FANTASY IN SPECULATIVE WORLD WITH REFERENCE TO C.S.LEWIS’S THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE

Abstract

Science fiction is unique in literature not only because of its content but also by virtue of its imagination which it expresses since pro -science fiction. Simply Science Fiction is fantasy fiction written under the strict, new rules of science. Although science fiction is fantasy fiction the inverse is not true. Both deals with the unusual, both are the most imaginative and inventive of man’s speculative literature. Science fiction consists of man’s imaginary invention or discovery set in the near future involving imaginative speculation in physical science, space, time and life sciences. This paper explain the fantasy in speculative world with reference to C.S.Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe