Literatures Effects

[kudos2u]

What effects do you personally believe literature has had on gender roles and racial issues. Is literature a catalyst for societal changes? I personally believe the media is a larger catalyst, but what arguments would you make for literature?

[Alexander III]

It has the same effect as some pretty flowers.

[IceM]

Even tangible literature struggles to incite deep passion within the reader.

Only impassioned leaders and large numbers elicit great social change.

[GenteelFiggar]

Literature used to have a bigger societal effect than it does now, because of the cultural changes brought about by technology. Reading/writing used to be the way people learned and thought about human truths, and societies gradually changed partially because of them. Now I think that catalyst, like you mentioned, has become other sorts of visual and auditory media, a la TV. This is sad to me, because I think we make less educated/thoughtful decisions on what to believe this way. Reading, to an extent, forces you to comprehend and digest information more than TV.