Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!