Literature Is A Mirror Of Our Time Analysis

History is the story of all things in the past, and with it comes ideas and experiences to educate future societies. Each time period brings something new for humans to learn from and within these different time periods are different thoughts and beliefs. There are many different ways that an author can present literature and how it reflects the time that it was written. Even very common works of literature, such as Of Mice and Men, Night, and Romeo and Juliet, can present this to you.

One way that literature reflects history is by educating people about past events. An example of how literature demonstrates the history of time it is was created would be from Elie Wiesel’s book named Night. This book is set in the time period of the Holocaust and does a significant job of illustrating what life might have been like for a Jew in a concentration camp. The reasoning behind why someone would want to remind people of this terrible time, would be so that no one forgets about all of the deaths taken by this dark age in Germany. Also to educate

In this novel George and Lennie travel around in search for a job, which was very common for an unemployed person during the 1930s. Also, the realization that ‘Curley’s Wife’ is not given a name could symbolize that women were treated more as objects or possessions rather than as people. Another way that this work of literature reflects when it was written is the low level of respect given to Crooks, an African American, and the way that these men talked including the slang that they used. Reasoning behind writing this story was that Steinbeck wanted to show an audience how people were affected by the Great Depression and what people had to do in order to get by. Steinbeck portrayed the reality of this time period in an uncensored way so that his audience would get the most understanding of life in that