Good Literature Must Read

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Trying to define what is “good” literature and if it is a “must-read” is a difficult task to do because good literature can be must-reads, but not all must-reads are considered as good literature. It’s like trying to define why all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. It doesn’t work the other way around. There are countless number of ways to define “good” literature and which ones are “must-reads”. It could be defined as having a strong theme, a lot of figurative language, imagery, if it questions the reader, not a plot-driven story, if it is enjoyable or not, or even by popularity. However, for some readers good literature isn’t always pleasing for them, nor are some must-read pieces of literature. For, me I believe …show more content…

Themes related to our society or even about a universal thought can be strongly questioned by the readers. By doing so, the readers can relate how the theme affects their life and question why the author wrote about this certain theme and the method that they wrote about. For example, one of the themes in Brave New World was about totalitarianism in a dystopian society. By containing questionable themes such as these, it makes us wonder things like what would actually happen if our society today was a totalitaristic society or if we ever created a dystopian society, what kind of society would we …show more content…

Personally, having a scene with vivid imagery allows me to imagine the scene more clearly and have that part of the story stick in my mind more than the others. For instance, the dramatic scene from Hamlet when Hamlet finally dies has stayed vividly in my mind for three years now, “HAMLET: O, I die, Horatio./The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit/.../The rest is silence./O, O, O, O. (dies)” (5.2.352-357). Compared to The Great Gatsby or Pride and Prejudice with its descriptive language, 1984 was the opposite. Although George Orwell didn’t use descriptive language, such as those books, he used short and direct sentences that told us about his dystopian society in an eerie way that allowed him to get his point across in a detached manner. By writing his novel this way, it allowed me to imagine his society in the bleakest tone possible for that

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