'Why Literature is important in our lives'. There are many limitations on the extent of a mans lifetime experience such as time, geography and point of view. Literature serves as a method of transcending such barriers.

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 “Why Literature is important in our lives?”

Explanation through the works of Literature

When we hear the world literature it reminds us stories, epics, sacred scriptures and classical works of the ancient and modern times. Basically literature is defined as the collection of written work of language through different periods and different cultures by authors and scholars. The advent of writing marked a great step in human civilization for many reasons such as transmitting knowledge, ideas, events and even feelings. There are many limitations on the extent of a man’s lifetime experience such as time, geography and point of view. Literature serves as a method of transcending such barriers. When we read the historic work of the Greek poet Homer who was the author of the ancient Greek epic Poems, the lliad and the Odyssey, we get to know about many things such as the socioeconomic and cultural background of the ancient places such as Troy, Ithaca and Sparta etc.  Thus Literature helps us transcend the time and social barriers.

 Through observing on the works of literature the audience can get an insight of the human beings and the society because, works of literature convey emotions, experiences and psychological explanations of human behaviors .It is hard to imagine how Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazi soldiers. Ann Frank’s Diary reveals much information about the harsh experiences that she and her family went through during their stay at the Netherlands in Anne’s father’s office building. Also when we read Ann Frank’s Diary we get to know her dreams and aspirations even though she died at a very young age (15) at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany on March 1945.

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 When we focus on the human conscience we can never forget William Shakespeare’s great tragedy Macbeth. The play gives us a psychoanalytical explanation of the main character Macbeth who is driven and deceived by the over ambition. Through Literary techniques like soliloquies and asides Shakespeare shows how Macbeth is ambitious to get the kingship. Before Macbeth assassinates King Duncan he sees an air drawn dagger which is created by his own imagination. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”(Macbeth, 2.1) Macbeth vacillates to take a decision and it confuses him to see hallucinations. Thus Shakespeare uses the power of language and Literature ...

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