Literature

Melati Theresia, S.S,

M.Hum
 Do you like travelling?

Do you want to know

about America and
other country in
world?
 literature

reflects life
 literature doesn't simply
record life

Author selects that which is most important,

most basic.

He reflects on
there is implicit
the meaning of
of "worldview"
life.
in every poem,
play or story
Dickens’s Oliver twist , Shakespeare’s Hamlet,
George Eliot’s Silas Marner , Jonathan Swift’s
Gullivers’s Travel, Stevenson’s Treasure Island and
Oscar wilde’s Happy prince.
 It's a mirror

It's a mirror in which we can

see ourselves even more clearly,
more vividly than in an
ordinary mirror.
so literature

Tell stories, dramatize situation, express

emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas

is writing which express and communicate thought,

feeling, and attitudes towards life.
 Literature helps us to be (become
more) realistic, mature, wise and
humane. It helps understand human
values, sentiments, interests and
problems. It brings us closer to other
human beings of the same or
different nationalities, cultures,
human values etc. we become more
tolerant, balanced and fuller.