Washington Irving's The Adventure Of The Mysterious Picture

"A work of literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical reality... it must tell us more than we already know." - E. M. Forster. This suggest that literature is successful when it reveals truths, even if it's not completely real. The part in the quote that states "it must tell us more then we already know." Shows that books and stories should expand are knowlege and the way we think. There are many books and stories that prove this. Washington Irving's 'The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture' uses gothic conventions to show extreme emotional truths that are realistic.

Books that show us the truth are bettter because it opens are mind. Books that state facts and truth can help us in everyday life. A book should be new stuff not old history we already know. This is what E.M. Forster is trying to show in his quote that stories can be fake but still filled with truth and new stuff. If we keep on reading the same old facts we will never learn new truths.

The part in the quote that states, " it must tell us more then we already know." Shows that books and stories should expand are knowledge and the way we think. Stories should make us think harder open are minds to a whole new worlds. We should not be stuck on truths we already are familiar with. Stories should bring more imagination. There purpose should be …show more content…
When a book does not do this it will not be successful a book should make us want more not less. They should bring more turths and stuff we never knew or imagine possible. Just like in 'The Adventure the Mysterious Picture,' the narrator has experiences that are not realistic. The story takes place in a room with a painting that starts to have a strange effect on the narrator. The man who is at first calm, grows increasingly agitated by the picture until he must leave the room. Now, a painting cannot realistically harm the narrator , but the emotions that he feels as a result are very