Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Novel Reading
I support Jane Austen’s viewpoint on novel reading. Novel is good as long as readers being caution to the balance of imagination and rational thinking. Novel reflects society, perspective, and value as authors are usually being influenced by the current society and political issues. Novels are reflection of the reality in some extent. In Northanger Abbey, the disobedience of Mr. Tilney to his father definitely plays as a mirror to the current political issue. Reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey not only made me see the world in a middle class lady’s perspective, but also made me learn about the culture, the custom, and women’s position in that period of time. Therefore, I do believe that novels have practical value.
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Novel do indeed have pratical value but I would say the value of the novel depends on the reader, if the reader chooses to keep and open mind and read it the novel as the literature as it is and not as reality or take idea from the author and twist them to create your own ideas that are skewed from what the author meant by their work. Readers must read the literature as it was intended, with and open mind to be critical of the ideas and to examine more in-depth of what the author is really trying to convey to the audience.
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