Date
1-16-2025
Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Degree
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)
Chair
Rachel Griffis
Keywords
War, tyranny, Hamlet, Macbeth, Narnia, fantasy, fiction
Disciplines
Creative Writing
Recommended Citation
Vaughan, Taylor D., "Timeless: A Sanctuary in Libraries" (2025). Masters Theses. 1260.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/1260
Abstract
This Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing thesis focuses on the literary element: character development. It includes a vision and background for the thesis project as a whole. An analysis of characters involved in wartime conflict will focus on William Shakespeare’s tragedies Macbeth and Hamlet and various characters in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. The creative manuscript that concludes the thesis incorporates fantasy and war genres and character development research. The manuscript aims to shed light on traumatic events in our modern world rather than use escapism in fantasy to ignore them.