What is literature and how it shaped me?

Hello readers,

This blog is about what is literature according to me. So enjoy reading it.

The students of arts or Literature are always asked a question that what we learnt from studying literature. The ways of answering this question is different than other academic courses. It is not like maths, that we can say that we learn multiplication or division... That's why many students find it difficult to answer this question.



According to me...

Literature is the  KEY  to open up the closed doors, through which we can wandered on the untravelled land. Let me ask you a question, 'Do you know or understand yourself completely?' The answer perhaps would be NO. In such case literature helps us to explore our self as well as the world with the help of various characters.


Literature is a mirror, not of society, but of own self. Through which everyone views his own reflection and can look at the corner of his/her self, which even he/she also didn't know or forgot.
With that, one can understand his own self, in a better way.
It gives different point of views through different characters of the work, that can help to understand people surrounding us more than they know about themselves.


The characters I found myself relevant with :

1. Monster of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. Lily Briscoe of To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

After studying literature for five long years, i have started understanding my actions, reactions, events in much clear way.

Thank you.