Creative fantasy... has a statement to make about the real nature of the world... so when we fantasize, when we wish for something, such as an escape from death, or to speak to other living things, or to fly like a bird,  we are not simply escaping from a painful life... We are seeking fulfillment... In "On Fairy Stories," Tolkien writes that fantasy provides... escape and consolation. Escape is not to flee from the world but affirm  its value by seeking to realize wishes and desires. The great wish is to have a 'happy ending' to a story... In part we have observed the power of words to create a Secondary World which, in one sense, is a disguised world, on in which truth is hidden so that it must be searched for. We know that Cinderella has the... virtue and the destiny to marry a prince; her story creates in us a sense of wonder at the happy ending not because it surprises us but because it fulfills our hopes.