The Societal Theory within Lud-in-the-Mist

Based on all the fairy and folk tales that I’ve read so far starting from childhood, what I receive the fairy realm to be is the fantastical and magical world of beautiful creatures and people, particularly a very nice one. Lud-in-the-Mist plays with my schema about the fairy world by making the fairy things as a taboo within the fictional state of Dorimare. From being the stories that has protected the innocent imaginations of childhood, in the city of Lud-in-the-Mist fairy things are told to make everything look as if they are all pleasant and nice, described with the word ‘delusional’.

The Opening of Lud-in-the-Mist itself feels like the point of growth in our lives when we realize that santa claus is not real. It is like the world of grown-ups putting the world of Peter Pan as taboo, dividing up Dorimare and Fairyland as two separate countries. This phase of transition is defined as ‘revolution’, which is the overthrowing of a government for a replacement with a new one. The doing away of delusions of fairy things and the overthrowing of the old law are then tied together as both being called to “mould reality into any shape it chose.” The irony enhanced from this particular juxtaposition is that between what is called to be non-existent and what is called to be the reality of Dorimare are seen in a similar way that both are as imaginative as each other.

The comparison of similarity seems to allude to the history of revolution in our world of repetitive overthrowing and replacement, saying that laws are also a sort of theory since it is a set of rules made by humans and are not always the ‘perfect system’. Therefore, Lud-in-the-Mist is depicting a phase of political transition as if a step of a child’s growth, using the widely known definition and recognition of fairy tales to describe the theoretical nature of how our society is built.