Fiction is make-believe. Stories made up by writers to tell about what they think and feel… It almost always goes further, though… So many writers’ tales, whether fantasy or not, comes from some personal experience and is then adapted to the genre they are comfortable in. Take Star Wars, for example, so many of George Lucas’ elements to the movie and lore can be traced to Greek mythology and the oppression of Nazi Fascism, we see this in the mysterious “force” and in the hero’s journey that Luke Skywalker undertakes and the Emporer along with his “storm troopers”, respectively.
Fiction is and can be anything and everything… That’s what makes it so interesting…
