The imagnative journey as a recurring literary concept in Shakespeare's "The Tempest", Margaret Atwood's "Journey to the Interior","The Wizard of Oz" and the Cirque de Soliel film "Journey of Man".

The concept of journey is universal, permeating generations, societies and cultures. Through imaginative means composers have demonstrated how important the journey theme is in human experience and the opportunities journeys present for self discovery and enlightenment. Margaret Atwood's poem Journey to the Interior and Victor Fleming's 1939 film The Wizard of Oz invite us to lose touch with reality and embark on an imaginative journey to understanding while Shakespeare's play The Tempest and the Cirque de …showed first 75 words of 1354 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1354 total…human experience. These composers have, through a variety of techniques, taken responders on imaginary journeys that have revealed to me that life is indeed a journey, not a guided tour. Just like an imaginative journey we are not told in which direction to travel and we will face many obstacles along the way, however it is only by journeying that we can ever hope to understand who we are and our place in the world.