What is Literature?

Before completing M.A

Literature is a vast term, we can’t define it in one particular definition. In general anything in written form that is literature. But it is not enough answer of what is literature? Because it is more than that. Literature is a mixture of various things like joy, emotions, anger, human behaviors, etc. So we can say that we get everything from literature. We can develop our thinking capacity through reading literature. We also get knowledge of small kid to old person. It is useful to us if we take it positive.

It is like ‘Morpich’, combination of various colors as under,

Literature is combination of many things as under,

L - Large

I - Imaginations

T- Tough time

E- Emotions

R- Risks

A- Anger

T- Travelling in time

U- Ugly

R- Revenge

E- Enemy

Every time literature is not for entertainment but it is for something else. It works like axe through which our frozen mind broken. Generally we think that while reading literature we feel pleasure but every time it is not true because in some literature we feel uneasiness like White Tiger, Oliver Twist, etc. So literature is not only for pleasure and good entertaining stories but it also reflects harsh realities of our society.

When I was in graduation study at that time I was not able to think about various terms and theories. But after M.A I am able to apply and think on those terms like feminism, deconstruction, colonialism, etc. And after thinking on those all things I am become open minded and able to accept new things.

So it is not only for pleasure and moral but it develop our thinking capacity. So we can see every things in literature like revenge between two brothers, human relations, poverty, love, marriage, murders, various behaviors and characters.