This semester, we have learned a great deal about great literature, history, and literary movements. From Hellfire and brimstone to Vietnam War stories, literature follows the patterns of history and culture. From inspiring our search for ultimate truth and meaning to drawing us into a community, great literature is important and beneficial for every member of the human race to read and study. Great literature is important and necessary, and literature reflects the patterns of history. Firstly, great literature humanizes us by telling us what it means to be human. It shows us the importance of life and how we ought to live it, drawing us together and making us understand the important aspects of our humanity.We read great literature, because
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There were three different literary movements that took place during this short, fifteen year renaissance. They were the Transcendentalists, the Anti-transcendentalists, and the Fireside poets. They were known for living within a period of exploding creativity from New England Authors. The country was growing in its cities, industries, technologies, and continuing its westward expansion. However, the country, was still facing several severe problems, including widespread use of child labor, lack of women’s suffrage, and continuing use and abuse of African Americans as …show more content…
They believed in determinism, which means that they believed that all human action was caused by preceding events, not by human free will. Many of them were also naturalists, meaning that they believed humans were like animals, driven by fear, hunger, and sex. The writing that embodies this movement most clearly was Jack London’s To Build a Fire. The main character was just a miner with nothing overly special about him. He was really just an ordinary, unspectacular man who lived a normal life. The only even remotely spectacular event in the tale is the incredible cold of the wilderness. It also portrays determinism through the cold of the wilderness. There was no way the man could change nature, he was doomed to freeze. Irony was also fundamental to this chronicle. The man along with the reader had their expectations punctured when the man finally built the fire, but it melted the snow slightly above and the fire was snuffed
There were three different literary movements that took place during this short, fifteen year renaissance. They were the Transcendentalists, the Anti-transcendentalists, and the Fireside poets. They were known for living within a period of exploding creativity from New England Authors. The country was growing in its cities, industries, technologies, and continuing its westward expansion. However, the country, was still facing several severe problems, including widespread use of child labor, lack of women’s suffrage, and continuing use and abuse of African Americans as …show more content…
They believed in determinism, which means that they believed that all human action was caused by preceding events, not by human free will. Many of them were also naturalists, meaning that they believed humans were like animals, driven by fear, hunger, and sex. The writing that embodies this movement most clearly was Jack London’s To Build a Fire. The main character was just a miner with nothing overly special about him. He was really just an ordinary, unspectacular man who lived a normal life. The only even remotely spectacular event in the tale is the incredible cold of the wilderness. It also portrays determinism through the cold of the wilderness. There was no way the man could change nature, he was doomed to freeze. Irony was also fundamental to this chronicle. The man along with the reader had their expectations punctured when the man finally built the fire, but it melted the snow slightly above and the fire was snuffed