What is it about a dragon? An innumerable amount of stories and cultural mythologies include this creature; stories from both the East and the West. When reading and studying fiction texts such as this, and encountering certain universal literary elements such as, obviously, good and evil, a search for ultimate meaning, and recurring characters such as dragons or leviathans, I always revert to Tolkein's "Mythopoeia". In this poem, he describes the reason humans long for stories containing these elements, and that is a search for the ultimate "story", so to speak. I mean a story in which good conquers evil, ultimate meaning is found, and dragons are decimated. The story Tolkein is citing is the Christian story, the story of redemption and so forth. Basically, all the main elements included in fictional stories over history mirror the perfect story, and humanity's desire for these stories mirrors their desire for true meaning and the perfection of their creativity, which will occur in Heaven.
I think what I wrote above is true.
I commented on Ms. Holm's.
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