The Forever Changing Significance, But Constant Role of Art:
An Analysis of How Art, Specifically 19th Century British Literature,
Creates Windows to New Perspectives In the American society of standardized and quick knowledge, it may be difficult to see the significance of art, especially when it was created in nineteenth century Britain. People want to take the easy way out and resort to finding most of the answers or the meaning of a work on the internet. A reason must exist, though, for requiring literature courses at the high school and university level. The rationale lies in what people can learn from the works today. The purpose of the literature may have been something specific when it was published, but its importance changes over …show more content…
In The Importance of Being Earnest, every line has a quality of splendor to it where anyone would have connected to and laughed at the characters’ experiences. For example, audiences would have enjoyed a humorous passage from Act One. Jack states that he lost both his parents and Lady Bracknell replies, “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune- to lose both seems like carelessness” (Wilde 1709). People found Wilde’s work amusing and delightful because of how it plays with language as seen in Lady Bracknell’s response. Each situation gets more extreme and hilarious as the play progresses. Wilde’s audience found entertainment and beauty in The Importance of Being Earnest which illustrates how he achieved his goal of creating art for art’s …show more content…
The importance of the poem was debated even when it was published where one of the only aspects that people could agree upon was that it was a strange tale. An initial purpose of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” though, was to persuade people to follow God. After the Mariner proclaims “I shot the ALBATROSS,” in line 82, he and the crew endure many terrible, supernatural events (Coleridge). When it came out, readers would have been influenced to not act as the Mariner did because God punishes him for killing the bird throughout the poem. The piece’s message was then, as the Mariner stresses in lines 618 to 621, “He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us, / He made and loveth all” (Coleridge). If readers of the text could take little from Coleridge’s work, at least they could understand that the moral of the poem was that people need to respect all of God’s creatures in order to be successful. According to Coleridge, a good and righteous life was one where people realize that everything is connected and understand that there is a link between the actions they take and how they are seen in the eyes of God. As seen in what the main character says, one of the first purposes of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was to inspire people to live a more
An Analysis of How Art, Specifically 19th Century British Literature,
Creates Windows to New Perspectives In the American society of standardized and quick knowledge, it may be difficult to see the significance of art, especially when it was created in nineteenth century Britain. People want to take the easy way out and resort to finding most of the answers or the meaning of a work on the internet. A reason must exist, though, for requiring literature courses at the high school and university level. The rationale lies in what people can learn from the works today. The purpose of the literature may have been something specific when it was published, but its importance changes over …show more content…
In The Importance of Being Earnest, every line has a quality of splendor to it where anyone would have connected to and laughed at the characters’ experiences. For example, audiences would have enjoyed a humorous passage from Act One. Jack states that he lost both his parents and Lady Bracknell replies, “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune- to lose both seems like carelessness” (Wilde 1709). People found Wilde’s work amusing and delightful because of how it plays with language as seen in Lady Bracknell’s response. Each situation gets more extreme and hilarious as the play progresses. Wilde’s audience found entertainment and beauty in The Importance of Being Earnest which illustrates how he achieved his goal of creating art for art’s …show more content…
The importance of the poem was debated even when it was published where one of the only aspects that people could agree upon was that it was a strange tale. An initial purpose of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” though, was to persuade people to follow God. After the Mariner proclaims “I shot the ALBATROSS,” in line 82, he and the crew endure many terrible, supernatural events (Coleridge). When it came out, readers would have been influenced to not act as the Mariner did because God punishes him for killing the bird throughout the poem. The piece’s message was then, as the Mariner stresses in lines 618 to 621, “He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us, / He made and loveth all” (Coleridge). If readers of the text could take little from Coleridge’s work, at least they could understand that the moral of the poem was that people need to respect all of God’s creatures in order to be successful. According to Coleridge, a good and righteous life was one where people realize that everything is connected and understand that there is a link between the actions they take and how they are seen in the eyes of God. As seen in what the main character says, one of the first purposes of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was to inspire people to live a more