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   Literature and history are closely related, in discovering the history of a race, feelings, aspirations customs and traditions of a people are surely to be included and these feelings, aspirations, customs, and traditions, that are written is literature.

The history of literature is the historical developments of writings in prose and poetry which attempts to provide Entertaiment, enlightment, or instruction to the reader/listener/observer.

Here are some literary compositions that have influenced the world:

1. the bible or the sacred heart  

2. koran

3. the Iliad and odessey

4. the Mahab-Harata

5. Canterbury tales

6. uncle tom's cabin

7. the divine comedy

8. El Cid compeador

 9. the song of roland

10. the book of the dead

11. the book of the days

12. one thousand and one nights or the Arabian nights

 

Literature and history, however, also have differences:

literature may be figments of the imagination or events devoid of truth that have been written down, while history is made up of events that really happened.

   Literature is present during the era of the ancient world. Even without the invention of words and language, literature was already manifested in the earliest human civilizations. Carvings and paintings on walls inside caves of stone give evidence about the lives of prehistoric people. They explain their way of life.

   Literature is also a tool for the foundation of a religion. The Holy Bible, one of the oldest written scriptures, is a compilation of tales, beliefs, and accounts that teach about Christianity (for both the Old and the New Testament) and about Judaism (for some selected books in the Old Testament). Within a span of more than a thousand years from the Prophet Moses to the Apostle Paul, the Bible was written by numerous authors believed to be inspired by God’s divine wisdom and tries to explain about the mysteries of life as well as setting rules for one’s personal faith. The same goes with the Qu’ran for Muslims, Torah for the Jews, and the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana and Veda for the Hindus.

  Literature explains human values. The works of Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle (the most famous Greek philosophers) contain virtues that promote perfection to a society if only human beings have the willingness to uphold and practice them. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave speaks about the importance of human wisdom and the penalties that one would face to achieve a higher level of understanding. Through these philosophers’ contributions to literature, not only did they craft an artistic convergence of words, but exposed logic and ideas as well.

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