LITERATURE
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
ON LITERATURE
Literature is a
dispensable activity; and
although it is
essential for cultivating
sensitivity and good
manners,
only people with time for
recreation can afford it.
Literature is essentially
for entertainment
purposes.
limited and deficient. This imposes
vocabulary and intellect limitation,
Literature is “something to
fit in between sports, the
movies, a game of bridge or
chess; and it can be
sacrificed” since there are
more tasks and duties that
are
“indispensable in the
struggle of life” instead of
reading
literature.
WHAT IS LITERATURE AND HOW LITERATURE
LIFE WITHOUT
LITERATURE
BENEFITS OF LITERATURE CAME TO BEING
A community without written Literature is generally Literature works are
language or literature expresses itself
defined as a written
with less born, as shapeless
precision, less richness of nuance, and artistic-work and
less clarity. A community untouched
pertains specifically to
ghosts, in the
with literature is comparable to a
those with a high and intimacy of a
deaf-mutes and aphasic community
with
lasting artistic value writer’s
tremendous problems of
communication. (Literature 2020). consciousness, and
the writer’s
Literature pertains to the body sensitivity to the
A person who does not read can
of written work and is usually
only say little because his
linked to imaginative
world around him,
vocabulary is
works of poetry and prose and and the writer’s
is perceived with aesthetic emotions.
including the ability to imagine. A excellence in its craft
person who does not read suffers (Rexroth, 2019).
from the
poverty of thought.
Literature is said to be the product
of and a commentary on the life
process, literature
being life itself. It is an oral or
written record of a man’s thoughts,
feelings, ideas, and aspirations
which has stood the test of time
because of its universal
appeal (Moreno, 2005).
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COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
ON LITERATURE WHAT IS LITERATURE AND HOW LITERATURE
LIFE WITHOUT
LITERATURE
BENEFITS OF LITERATURE CAME TO BEING

Literature is deemed Through the struggle in

Literature protects human
as a female activity; beings against stupidity, words of the poet and
since women Without literature, prejudice, racism, the
eroticism will not exist. religious or narrator, these
work fewer hours political sectarianism, and
than men, and they Since in an illiterate shapeless ghosts are
exclusivist nationalism. It
world, love encourages equality given forms,
are able to justify
and desire is no different among body, movement,
that gap by men and women, and
from what satisfies an rhythm, harmony, and
devoting teaches that only
life. An
animal: pleasure will be injustice, discrimination,
themselves to fear, and artificial life.
poorer, there will be lack
“fantasy and exploitations sows them
of delicacy and apart.
illusion” exquisiteness, and
that is Literature. people will fail Literature teaches ethnic and
. to attain the fantasy that cultural differences, richness
literature offers. of human patrimony, and
human integrity and human
imperfection. Since literature
exists to enrich the
imagination and entirety of
human life which cannot be
dismembered. It enlightens
and reveal the life as it is
lived.
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COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
ON LITERATURE WHAT IS LITERATURE AND HOW LITERATURE
LIFE WITHOUT
LITERATURE
BENEFITS OF LITERATURE CAME TO BEING

Literature transcends all Literature does not begin to

“Books are anachronistic temporal barriers and exist through mere work of
objects” and they can be transport the society into an
replaced with computer Without literature, the the past; the individual or its writer.
screens which are critical mind will not reach bygone eras, and teaches Instead, it comes to life
believed to be its full potentiality and the readers to enjoy the when it
“less onerous, takes up will knowledge and dream. It begins to become adopted
less space, more easily by others and becomes part
be subject to historical teaches
transportable, and have of
change, and suffer from the collective human
the ecological advantage the social life, and becomes
irreparable loss. Hence, experience across time a shared experienced
of
when and space. through
stopping the destruction
of forests.” Hence, one decides to abandon the process of reading.
electronic the literary world, they Literature enriches the
screens can replace return to actual existence vocabulary of an individual
paper, and reading on a that and teaches them to speak
computer can only ends with correctly, eloquently, and
substitute as literary disappointment. deeply. Literature crafts
reading teaches people to
communicate. It also allows
language to evolve and
reach high levels of
refinement
and manners.