History Within Stories: History Across Cultures

History Within Stories Imagine world without the knowledge and understandings of cultures and their past history. World literature has helped shaped us into who we are today by helping us grip and understand cultures and their beliefs. It also helped us gather their information and how they lived by the recordings of these stories. It records the past, which has inspired us to express ourselves in many ways. Now, think of a world where we didn’t know different way to express ourselves. For example writing, plays, painting stories, all of these different ways that have been recorded and showed to us from the past. From the Native Americans paintings on the walls all the way to stories carved into stone. Those stories show us how people in that time period lived and what they did to survive. It shows their beliefs, which some cultures still honor to this day. Through this …show more content…
It shows how love used to be, with arranged marriages (those are still around) and how loveless the relationships were. It also showed how deep and true some love was, for example Great Expectations. Pip’s love for Estella went beyond anything else, no matter how cold or cruel she was Pip always seemed to love. World literature also shows the joy of people, the different ways they celebrate, how they celebrate, like balls and galas. Some celebration include chants around a fire, vocal storytelling, the passing down of something their ancestors. These stories show how connected everyone used to be. The last emotion that is greatly shown is tragedy. The pure hurt someone can feel, it seems like everything was felt more deeply centuries ago. In The Adventures of Gilgamesh, the hurt and panic he felt after his friend died. World literature shows so much emotion of all different types, all recorded and preserved by carvings and writings. This shows us how much attachment there was before our