It has always been a difficult task to define what literature really is and what it is about. However, literature is a term used to define a written or spoken material. Literature can define anything from written work to scientific work but the word is most commonly used to define the works of an inventive imagination which include poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Attires we may be faced with questions when we read classical novels and pieces that seem really old. The most common question readers may ask themselves today is ‘what sense does literature make in the contemporary world? ‘The answer is simple; Literature cannot be inexistent. Literature is what defines a culture, and for a culture to be existing it must get its components from literature. We tend to read literature in order to get an understanding of the past and hopefully get an understanding of the past and past experiences of those before us. From literature we are able to learn about the forces, personalities, the developments and the happenings which have shaped the contemporary day.it also serves as a source of information in a kind of way that reveals us to ourselves. Literature introduces to us what is known as ‘World Literature’. This takes place due to the rapid globalizing world. World Literature began as early as the 1820s but has now gained recognition in the contemporary world. The idea of world literature is to define differently the idea of literature’s classic texts in a way that touches human emotions which are common everywhere despite race, cultural barriers, language, religion and ethnicity. It dissolves the regional and religion aspects of the book and highlights the emotions and dilemma the characters are subjected to. Literature also offers a sense of imagination for those that can’t see past their immediate horizons. We are aware that there aren’t many people in the world that are open to seeing and experiencing things that others do due to poverty, discrimination, low expectations, cultural blinkeredness and other conditions. Literature offers a vision and an insight of another world outside the domains of these individuals. Literature has a great benefit for these people which is to enlarge their senses about many other possibilities of life. Literature of any kind gives the reader the ability to imagine things and of which offers the reader the chance of being optimistic; in such a case optimism comes with hope for a better life. Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share an individual’s feelings with others.
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Emotional quotient is the capability, ability and dexterity to recognize and manage the emotions of one’s self. Emotional quotient makes us understand how others may get affected by our actions directly or indirectly which is the most important quality in a person of which brings in the sense of social responsibility in everyone. Anne Frank’s book ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ can proves a good example of empathy and emotional quotient in literature. A book in this case works on the mind of the reader where the reader is able to virtually reconstruct the autobiography and story around him, however this depends on the level of imagination of the individual. When a reader flips through Anne Frank’s book, they are able to see the world and experience it through her eyes. Through such involvement, a reader is competent to widen one’s moral horizons. This is where empathy comes to play because one should develop empathy to be a more rational and humanistic person in society. Therefore, when one is faced with difficult situations in life it doesn’t necessarily have to relate to books that one reads but they can be able to be open to other solutions on how to deal with the difficulties of life. Literature offers entertainment no technology today can match up to. When a reader is engrossed in a book, the novel or the work of literature serves as the script and the reader is the director. Literature offers the ability to be make every story read different from other’s that read the same story. Unlike watching a movie on television, a reader decides how a character should look, how the setting should be etc. despite how they have been described in the book. This ability is innate and is different from all other readers. This differs from watching a movie on television
Emotional quotient is the capability, ability and dexterity to recognize and manage the emotions of one’s self. Emotional quotient makes us understand how others may get affected by our actions directly or indirectly which is the most important quality in a person of which brings in the sense of social responsibility in everyone. Anne Frank’s book ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ can proves a good example of empathy and emotional quotient in literature. A book in this case works on the mind of the reader where the reader is able to virtually reconstruct the autobiography and story around him, however this depends on the level of imagination of the individual. When a reader flips through Anne Frank’s book, they are able to see the world and experience it through her eyes. Through such involvement, a reader is competent to widen one’s moral horizons. This is where empathy comes to play because one should develop empathy to be a more rational and humanistic person in society. Therefore, when one is faced with difficult situations in life it doesn’t necessarily have to relate to books that one reads but they can be able to be open to other solutions on how to deal with the difficulties of life. Literature offers entertainment no technology today can match up to. When a reader is engrossed in a book, the novel or the work of literature serves as the script and the reader is the director. Literature offers the ability to be make every story read different from other’s that read the same story. Unlike watching a movie on television, a reader decides how a character should look, how the setting should be etc. despite how they have been described in the book. This ability is innate and is different from all other readers. This differs from watching a movie on television