Escapism and Wish Fulfillment in Relation to Love and Death in J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter Series

This paper adopts characters and thematic, analytic, and descriptive approaches of studying escapism and wish fulfillment in The Harry Potter Series by Janet K.Rowling as related to the different features of both love and death as major themes. Rowling herself admits that her books are largely about death and love is a guard against death. Harry's ability to love and be loved is the only protection that can possibly work against the lure power of Voldemort. Love has many types; like parental, friendly and emotional. Dumbledore and most of the good characters at Hogwarts School represent parental love. As for the friendly love it is clearly manifested in the relation among Harry, Ron, Hermione and other classmates. The emotional love is embodied in the passionate relations between the star-crossed lovers in the series. Rowling presents her reflections on death as it is irreversible as no magic can reawaken the dead. Also death is not to be feared but should be endured because it is not the end; it is the next great adventure. Death is always accompanying love and is taking many shapes like murder, demolishing others for getting supremacy, sacrifice and reincarnation. Both love and death are investigated from religious and spiritual point of views. Escapism of death bears fear of death. Tolkien’s view of escapism is important to Rowling’s work which means that the true escapism or the fugitive spirit is drawn by the oldest and deepest desire, the great escape: the escape from death.
The paper concludes that escapism and wish fulfillment are correlated themes with love and death that are clearly woven by J.K.Rowling's in The Harry Potter Series.
The paper recommends that escapism and wish fulfillment have widely spread in fantasy fiction due to many devastating reasons in nowadays world that J.K.Rowling portrayed in her novels. Therefore we must change these conditions in order to reduce escapism from reality to death and highlight the ability of love and sacrifice.