Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton: A Literary Analysis

Great literature doesn't come with a label verifying it’s status as great literature. Literature, with a capital “L”, can be defined as any textual writing that has effects on a reader’s conscientious, critical thinking, and intellectual skill set. Literature that requires no capital “L” has a variety of definition from a variety of sources. In a summary most of these sources’ definitions point to literature as any expanded written text. This will arise a trial on rather selectional books are literature or Literature. Animal Farm by George Orwell and Ethan Frome Edith Wharton are two novels that literature but, do these texts qualify as Literature is a debatable and a conclusive statement is that Animal Farm is Literature and Ethan Frome is …show more content…
Like many novels critical thinking is key while examine the text. Was the text challenging enough to push your critical thinking. Again Ethan Frome did not meet the requirement. Posterior to reading Ethan Frome my critical thinking in general was not changed or enhanced. On the opposition side, Animal Farm can challenge a readers critical thinking throughout the text. It’s symbolism, foreshadowing, and plot make the reader read carefully to think in an abstract way about the event at hand and the event that will come. Animal Farm’s ties to human event and culture also help the reader think critically after reading the text. As an example in Animal Farm those who appose the government are killed or banished, theses types of events happen in real life and give the reader a insight to why they have the right to properly criticize the government. In addition to improving a readers critical thinking, Animal Farm improves a readers intellectual skill set as a whole while on the other hand Ethan Frome comes …show more content…
George Orwell and Edith Wharton had substantial amount of complex vocabulary to improve a reader intellectual. As well as a very flowing and complete style of writing by both authors that could improve the readers skill. In the connections and ties to reality Ethan Frome falls short to
Animal Farm. Animal Farm offers the read a great connection to the real world. In an overall view of which novel has the ability to offer a reader an improvement in his/her intellectual skill set George Orwell’s Animal Farm is superior. Literature, with a capital “L”, can be defined as any textual writing that has effects on a reader’s conscientious, critical thinking, and intellectual skill set. Literature that requires no capital “L” has a large variety of definition from a variety of sources and can be summed up as any lengthy written text. Be theses definitions Animals Farm has meet the requirement and standards or Literature and literature. While Ethan Frome is just literature and falls short to meeting the requirements Literature. Both novels have a lot to offer and can be enjoyable to read but, they each have a respective category of Literature or literature in which they fall