Literature View

What is Literature? How it shaped me?

From the under Graduate study we listen about that 'what is literature?' in a very simple answer we replied that,'literature is the mirror of the society'. At that level of understanding is do not exactly know about what is it? We live only with our narrow thinking habits. After complete my journey of 5 years with the literature, it is necessary to look back and observe that what we are at there and now.


As per my point of view in my life there are many 'changes' comes through the literature. My personal experience is that after study literature i have gained many different ideas about, ' feminism' and 'patriarchal'. Literature also teach us both side of the life, good as well as bad. There are some terms in the literature which helps us to read character through which we study whole life of  any character.


Literature is like a best friend, because it always stay with us, in our bad time and also in our good time. It provide us the material related to any situation.  Literature is not just imaginative stories written in leisure time only for entertainment. But it is reflection of time, place and society in which we are living. Literature is mirror or photographic image of society. equally literature is also an x ray image portraying ugly, darker sides of society.



Still, whatever definition we try to give literature will remain incomplete because its exactly like 5-7 blind men defining Elephant, by touching it. Whatever aspect they will touch upon, will define like that.So, lets it leave it aside and come back to the point.


The novels which we are studied in M.A. it also some how helped in our life. It also gives the moral of life. Recently we have study about the J.K. Rowling's novel, 'Harry Potter'. It is a part of  children's literature, but it also gave some moral lesson to the elders. The another one is that Dr. Faustus also gives the moral message for the life. 


literature shaped me in the way of my thinking process. From the narrow mind to broader way of thinking it is a sign of improvement by the literature in our life.