Terry Eagleton's literature indicates that when individuals encounter the term literature, they readily

assume that it is a question of facts vs. fiction. Others believe that literature is imaginative text.
Thus, Eagleton puts literature in opposition to historical and factual writing. Eagleton evaluates
varying opinions on the definition of the term fiction. For instance, some authors regard their work
as factual texts. After years of research and studies, people's opinion varies some author's contents.
To demonstrate his point, Eagleton uses an example of the Author of Genesis and how they believed
that their text was accurate and true. Therefore, Eagleton introduces his readers to the theory of
Russian formalists, polemic groups of literary critics, and militants who saw literature as a language
manipulation technique. They suggest that literature was using a given language in extraordinary,
extreme, and peculiar ways.

In Eagleton's opinion, everything has value because people believe in things, and therefore, these
people are never exactly who they claim. The universe has to run on values with prejudices. Thus, it
is common for people to pass judgment on other persons, and it is natural to value judgment. At the
same time, people who make decisions based on the society's value-judgment indicate that the
community has limitations on individual values. Thus, Eagleton suggests that maybe literature takes
different forms, and someone must read, analyze, and like literature. If they can relate to the text’s
values differently than other people, then it is literature. In his argument, Eagleton indicates that
literature can also assume an appealing criterion. Although, no one is to judge what good literature
or bad literature should look like. Thus, he states that literature does not have to be a well-drafted
text, but it should be a kind of literature that people approve to be fine.