Big Scary essay that may or may not make you cry yourself to sleep.
In Will Schoder's youtube video David Foster Wallace speaks about how humans need to recognize that there is a universal truth. He argues for embracing the importance of emotional bonds between people as the bedrock of human relationships. Schoder argues that current television shows show how important strong, positive emotional bonds are by being cynical, but at the same time coming back to how powerful and important love between family and friends can be.
Can the same be said about Literature? Is there a universal underlying truth in literature that pushes human's closer together, and if there is what kind of literary techniques have the authors we have looked at this semester used to emphasize this point?
You may feel free to argue that there is no universal truth in literature or that there is no universal truth at all as long as you still address the prompt and the literature we have read throughout the semester.
In Will Schoder's youtube video David Foster Wallace speaks about how humans need to recognize that there is a universal truth. He argues for embracing the importance of emotional bonds between people as the bedrock of human relationships. Schoder argues that current television shows show how important strong, positive emotional bonds are by being cynical, but at the same time coming back to how powerful and important love between family and friends can be.
Can the same be said about Literature? Is there a universal underlying truth in literature that pushes human's closer together, and if there is what kind of literary techniques have the authors we have looked at this semester used to emphasize this point?
You may feel free to argue that there is no universal truth in literature or that there is no universal truth at all as long as you still address the prompt and the literature we have read throughout the semester.