literature acts as a window or mirror (or both.) Literature as a window allows us to peer out from our lives to learn about what is going on in the lives of people in other times and places. As mirror literature is that we use to hold up and learn something about ourselves. Sometimes literature allows us to do both, learn about another world and learn about ourselves, too.
When we study literature, our horizons are broadened, because we can learn about and come to understand people who are different from us. Conversely, we might discover characters or poems that we really identify with—it can be really exciting and validating to discover that your exact thoughts and feelings have also been experienced by someone else. Because of these effects, literature encourages us to be sensitive to the whole spectrum of human experience and to consider this when making decisions in our day-to-day lives. Academically, studying literature also helps us to refine our own writing skills and expand our vocabularies.
Literature is also a form of time travel that helps put today in context. All those apocalyptic lamentations about how "things used to be so much better" are controverted in literature of the last generation, the last century, all the way back to Shakespeare and beyond. Conversely, reading about how people lived in the past can really make you appreciate what humanity is able to accomplish and endure. In the classics, you may read about political battles, domestic abuse, prejudice and civil rights, unwanted pregnancy, binge drinking on college campuses, gangs and juvenile crime, homelessness, nationwide economic crises caused by speculation--as Solomon wrote thousands of years ago, there is nothing new under the sun. History tells us what people did; literature tells us what they were thinking.
Literature in general is very important to a readers although you may not take literature in English as an examinable subject at school. Reading is infact very much part of language learning. This will among other thing, improve your command of the English language if you read widely.
- In short we can say that -
1. Literature improves your command of language.
2. It teaches you about the life, cultures and experiences of the people in other parts of world. literature also teaches us many lessons that have universal themes, such as love, war, desire, justice and many more. When we read these topics, we become much more sophisticated in our thinking and our view of the world expands. This makes us better citizens
3. It gives you information about other parts of the world which may never be able to visit lifetime.
4.It entertains you and provides useful occupation in your free time. It makes you wiser and more experienced person by forcing you to judge, sympathize with, or criticize the characters you read about. So literature also makes us think, as we might not necessarily agree. We will have to form opinions and convictions of our own and the reading of English literature can aid us in the process.
5. It gives information which may be useful in other subjects, for example in Geography, Science, History, Social Studies and so on. And the English literature tells us about the history of the English speaking world. In other words, through this literature, you are able to learn about ourselves and our history.
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