Why We Have to Study British English and Is Literature Truer Than History?
“Literature is truer than History”
Is there any time you ask yourself why people live in the same Earth but different colors, why there are so many countries instead of just one nation or how explores discovered new lands? To answer all that questions, we have to look at the history. But is history always true? An ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said that literature is truer than history. Literature also reflects the past. It is very lively and colorful like history. Then why did he say that? Both literature and history are crucial, they compensate for each other and play their own important part in our society and life. However, I still agree with Aristotle.
We cannot say that literature is more important than history. They are both crucial and play a significant part in our life. It is just that literature is more personal. If history is about what is real or in the other hand, about fact, literature is about imagination, emotion and feeling. Most of the time, people read novels or poem in their free time for relaxing. If I have to choose between a historic documents and a novel, for example, “Gone with the wind”, I will take the novel because it’s more interesting and we can also study history in novel. For example, the novel “Pride and Prejudice” which was written by Jane Austen gives us a chance to know about the society in early 19th century when women had to marry wealthy men to have a better life. During war, some countries’ historic documents were lost or in worse case, destroyed. The historians have to study about history mostly in literature works, art, music or ancient things like pottery or architecture. For instance, Vietnam is a very specific example. Vietnam is ruled by ancient Chinese people for more than one thousand years then Vietnamese people fought back and seized the power from China. The peace lasted for a few centuries then came the French colonialism, the battle with American and some small fights to protect country’s borders.
Is there any time you ask yourself why people live in the same Earth but different colors, why there are so many countries instead of just one nation or how explores discovered new lands? To answer all that questions, we have to look at the history. But is history always true? An ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said that literature is truer than history. Literature also reflects the past. It is very lively and colorful like history. Then why did he say that? Both literature and history are crucial, they compensate for each other and play their own important part in our society and life. However, I still agree with Aristotle.
We cannot say that literature is more important than history. They are both crucial and play a significant part in our life. It is just that literature is more personal. If history is about what is real or in the other hand, about fact, literature is about imagination, emotion and feeling. Most of the time, people read novels or poem in their free time for relaxing. If I have to choose between a historic documents and a novel, for example, “Gone with the wind”, I will take the novel because it’s more interesting and we can also study history in novel. For example, the novel “Pride and Prejudice” which was written by Jane Austen gives us a chance to know about the society in early 19th century when women had to marry wealthy men to have a better life. During war, some countries’ historic documents were lost or in worse case, destroyed. The historians have to study about history mostly in literature works, art, music or ancient things like pottery or architecture. For instance, Vietnam is a very specific example. Vietnam is ruled by ancient Chinese people for more than one thousand years then Vietnamese people fought back and seized the power from China. The peace lasted for a few centuries then came the French colonialism, the battle with American and some small fights to protect country’s borders.