Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral · Character
Fancy
A personification of imagination and creativity.
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First appearance: On Imagination
Fancy shows up with force in Thoughts on the Works of Providence. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Personified as Reason's companion, allowing imaginative roving in the mental debate.
Fancy first appears in 0022 on imagination.
In Thoughts on the Works of Providence: Personified as Reason's companion, allowing imaginative roving in the mental debate.
Later, in On Imagination: Personified as the roving force that drives imagination, capable of soaring through the skies and transforming the natural world.
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- Other
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- Mythological and Classical Figures
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Rising action.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
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- Closing
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See Fancy in On Imagination