Thursday, October 10, 2013

LITERARY FICTION & EMPATHY

 How can reading fiction help you understand others?  Use Hamlet as an example to explore your own thinking process and reactions to a character's innermost thoughts/struggles.

The different personalities, traits, and characteristics the characters in fiction help us understand others. It gives us that broad spectrum of different types of people that we may meet in the future. Reading and learning about these different types of people help us understand what other people are like. We get the opportunity to adapt to these type of people even though we haven't met them yet. Hamlet is a great example because the story contains so many different characters with different personalities, traits, and characteristics. You have Hamlet's uncle is a betrayer and a greedy man. In real life, you will meet those types of people even though you would not like to. Those type of people are real in the real world, whether we like it or not.

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