The Importance of Literature - HELL - Chapter I

 

[alert-success] HEL - William J. Long [/alert-success]

[alert-warn] UNIT I : INTRODUCTION - THE MEANING OF LITERATURE[/alert-warn]

[alert-primary] The Importance of Literature[/alert-primary]

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      Literature, like all art, is often viewed as a mere play of imagination, enjoyable like a new novel without serious or practical value. Absolutely not. Literature preserves people's ideals, which are love, faith, duty, friendship, freedom, and reverence. 

     The Greeks were a marvellous people, but we only cherish a few of their mighty works. The Greeks, Hebrews, and Romans were what they were because of their literature, which preserved their ideals. 

     Our democracy is a dream. It is the lovely and immortal ideal of a free and equal manhood. Democracy is reality today because it was preserved in every great literature from the Greeks to the Anglo-Saxons. All our arts, sciences, and inventions are founded on ideals; Our entire civilization, freedom, progress, homes, and religion rest on ideals. On earth, only ideals last. Literature preserves ideals from fathers to sons while men, cities, governments, and civilizations vanish. 

     Literature plays a vital role in preserving the history of the world and has effectively passed it down from generation to generation the knowledge it has gained through experience and learning.  

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