With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.

More generally, it described the notion that all forms of writing could only " offer particular versions of reality rather than actual descriptions of it ," and that a story need not offer a clear resolution at its end.

He believed that his story was " more invention than reality ... in part myth, Yoakum's life as he would have wished to have lived it.

In reality, most mainstream scholars agree that the story of the Grail was just that, a literary fiction that began circulating in medieval times.

Tolkien's opinion was adopted by another Christian writer, C. S. Lewis, in their conversations: " Tolkien explained to Lewis that the story of Christ was the true myth at the very heart of history and at the very root of reality.

In the alternate reality of X-Men: Ronin, the story is played out in Japan.

The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.

A comprehensive and specific fictional model for virtual reality was published in 1935 in the short story Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley G. Weinbaum.

Stanisław Lem wrote a short story in early 1960 called " IJON TICHY ' S MEMORIES ", in which he presented a scientist who devised a completely artificial virtual reality.

The Piers Anthony novel Killobyte follows the story of a paralyzed cop trapped in a virtual reality game by a hacker, whom he must stop to save a fellow trapped player slowly succumbing to insulin shock.

Every view of reality that is introduced in the story is later derided in some way, whether that view is traditional or iconoclastic.

Participants are often placed in exotic locations or abnormal situations, and are often persuaded to act in specific scripted ways by off-screen " story editors " or " segment television producers ", with the portrayal of events and speech manipulated and contrived to create an illusion of reality through direction and post-production editing techniques.

Some argue the key difference is the emphasis of the human story and conflicts of reality shows, versus the emphasis on process and information in more traditional format shows.

An episode of the NBC drama Harry's Law used the industry jargon " Franken-bytes " and gave an example of the audio-splicing trick, which is used to force dialogue that is needed for the drama / story / script, but not actually said by the reality characters.

In one tale, " The Seven Viziers " ( also known as " Craft and Malice of Women or The Tale of the King, His Son, His Concubine and the Seven Wazirs "), a courtesan accuses a king's son of having assaulted her, when in reality she had failed to seduce him ( inspired by the Qur ' anic / Biblical story of Yusuf / Joseph ).

In speculative fiction, the line between dreams and reality may be blurred even more in the service of the story.

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson characterized Heinlein's story as " a dream of personal freedom " written with " an enviable craftsmanship ", noted that the novel " carries its thematic burden tightly ", unlike Heinlein's later adult novels, and praised The Rolling Stones for its " sense of an accurately extrapolated future background, with all of the new technologies given an air of commonplace reality ".

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

Crane conceived the story from the point of view of a young private who is at first filled with boyish dreams of the glory of war, only to become disillusioned by war's reality.

Oliver argues that the Induction is used to remove the audience from the world of the enclosed plot – to place the ontological sphere of the Sly story on the same level of reality as the audience, and to place the ontological sphere of the Katherina / Petruchio story on a different level of reality, where it will seem less real, more distant from the reality of the viewing public.

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

The `` reality '' to which they respond is rationally empty and their art is an imitation of the inescapable powerfulness of this unknown and empty world.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

He is the conveyor of a sacred reality by which he has been grasped.

The corporation in America is in reality our form of socialism, vying in a sense with the other socialistic form that has emerged within governmental bureaucracy.

Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.

The reality of the situation, however, is described by Mr. Lyford: ``

Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.

He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.

True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;

For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.

It is difficult to draw the line between stereotype and the reality of the jazz musician.

What I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible.

The illegal instruction fetch is not maskable, and many TRS-80 Color Computer users reported that their 6309's were " buggy " when in reality it was an indicator of enhanced and unknown features.

Prior to the launch of its HD feed in 2004, some sitcoms and drama series were presented in this format, but now reality, talk, and game shows ( American Idol being the lone exception, as it is presented in High Definition ) are only presented in the enhanced definition widescreen mode.

They also greatly enhanced Cuvier's personal reputation, and they essentially ended what had been a long running debate about the reality of extinction.

As the Goblin Queen, her mutant powers were exponentially enhanced by demonic eldritch magic to the point where she could warp reality within a localized area.

By means of this stillness, the mind is calmed, and the ability to see reality is enhanced.

" The lawsuit said Bear Stearns told Barclays that the enhanced fund was up almost 6 % through June 2007 — when " in reality, the portfolio's asset values were plummeting.

The Metaverse is our collective online shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space, including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the internet.