The line between fiction and reality is blurrier today than ever before. As much as clichéd it sounds, a book or a movie filled with fictional characters can change your life completely. ... Psychologists believe that fictional characters influence us in real life. Several studies and research have also confirmed the same.

Does fiction represent reality?

So even fantasy and science fiction works have to contain enough of the common base reality to enable us to relate, otherwise we will set them down. So yes, fiction must represent reality, even those brands most far removed from reality.

What is the relationship between fiction and reality?

Reality and fiction are two separate worlds but they inevitably feed each other. The images that we see in reality can make us imagine amazing stories. But in the same way, a book or a dream can inspire us to do a specific frame, a portrait or choose a theme.