Reimagined Worlds Half-Yearly Essay (Inferior to HSC imo)

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Intro: Reimagined worlds serve as an avenue for composers to explore the universality of human disobedience and resistance against established orders and structures, inviting audiences to discover verities through extrapolations of their own reality. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unification of man and nature in the reimagined worlds of his poems Christabel and Rime of the Ancient Mariner illuminate human rebellion against natural and religious order as warranting divine retribution, aligning with Romantic values of his milieu. The 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro c`hampions human disobedience against established orders of oppression and critiques tyranny through its postmodern genre hybridisation, which serves as metafictional narrative disobedience. Christopher Marlowe’s 1592 play Doctor Faustus deconstructs individual autonomy through the Calvinist philosophy of predestination, dismissing human insubordination against theological order as a product of predestination through his reimagined world of the Bible.