The Importance of Symbols in Stories

There's a growing trend towards stories emanating from the internal mind of the authors as opposed to stories that tied in this shared symbolic landscape so shakespeare is not making these things up himself he is using these things that are well known and he's artfully rendering them into his story. ray bradbury says i try not to do that overtly because it always comes out over rot i just keep my mind well supplied with imagery and symbols and then my subconscious my subconscious does the tricks for me when i write I don't actually have to think about it but they're not as planned and intentional as those in sh Shakespeare or dante. See us see us luice worried of people of sort