How Literature Shaped me...

Hello everyone!

Here I am sharing my experience of learning literature that how literature shaped me. Throughout these five years I have studied many texts and after studying each and every texts my point of view about life also changed.

Literature is a platform where everybody gets equal chance to express their selves. Here no one is going to ask tell us your gender, here no one is going to ask tell us your cast, tell us your degree, and tell us who your parents are. Here everyone are equal.

When I was studying ‘Hamlet’ I feel that with Prince Hamlet I am also in dilemma of ‘To be or not to be that is the question’, when I was studying ‘Frankenstein’ with Monster I was also feeling that ugliness, when I was studying ‘Waiting for Godot’ at that time I was feeling the enigma about life with Vladimir and Estragon that ‘Who am I?’ that existential identity crisis and learnt that ‘Waiting is an endless process.’, when I was studying ‘The White Tiger’ I was feeling like Balram Halwai that with him I have also murdered Mr. Ashok and also like him ‘Half-backed’ not knowing the whole truth, when I was studying ‘The Da Vinci Code’ at that time I was feeling that I am also on the quest of ‘Holy Grail’, when I was studying ‘Harry Potter’ I was feeling that like Harry I will also die because I am also a part of Voldemort, when I was studying ‘Sense of an Ending’, I was feeling that with Adrian I have also committed suicide and with Tony Webster I am living my life ‘Peaceably’.

The list will extend, because I have studied many texts and with each and every character I was feeling that I am also feeling the same. So, what I learned from literature? Of course about life and life experience and yet nothing because after all literature is this. It never teaches you something rather it just express someone’s feeling, emotions.

When I was in the starting phase of learning literature at that if somebody asks me that what is literature? At that time I use to say that ‘Nothing but mirror of society’, then I learn more about literature and my answer was changed then I use to say ‘literature skeleton of society’ and further I studied about literature and now again my answer is different now I am saying that ‘Literature is nothing but words, words, words!’ (Of course used in different situations, for different time, for different purpose, for different contexts). I don’t want to add more words in this definition because the more you the words the more you discard the quality of literature.

So, to sum up my point how literature shaped me or what I learn from literature of course everything yet nothing. And what is literature ‘Nothing but words, words, words’.

Thanking you…