It Has Been a LOOOOONG Time

I've decided to take up blogging again. Interesting, I know. Facebook just doesn't provide the space necessary to share one's thoughts with others. Here is my thought for today:

Why are "great works of literature" so great? I mean they were after all written over 100 years ago, aren't they a bit out of date? And what's with the stories? Dante's Inferno, Beowulf, all of Shakespeare's plays, how do they apply today and why do we still read them?

The answer is because they are timeless. You hear that word used a lot "diamonds are timeless" "this is a timeless classic" but what does it mean? It means that it us great regardless of the time period. If Inferno was a great work in the 1500's it can still be in the 2000's. The themes of these books are topics that will never stop "trending", will never get old, and will never go out of style. Dante's Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, & Paradiso) all talk about life after death and punishment for sin. You'd be hard pressed to fin someone who didn't think about that regardless of their worldview.

These books are timeless because the issues in the book are the issues of today.

If anyone reading would like to talk to me about my view on any classic literature I have read please feel free to do so.

~The Candlelight Writer