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Originally Posted by Cat  Yeah, you are right about that. But take William Blake and his poems about chimney sweepers as an example; he deals with topics that are no longer 'relevant' today. I guess the themes are the same, it's just the topics within the themes that have changed a little.
Seems like we read classics differently as well. Whenever I read it I try to picture myself in that time period, and as a contrast I try to imagine how it would've been written today. I always find quite a few major differences. I guess I just like to feel like I'm somewhere else, and that's why I prefer classic literature. |
True. Also, its hard to imagine needing "maids" to dress and such things in these times of zips and button fly jeans. No matter how loaded you are, there's just no point.
I suppose you enjoy reading classics to escape, whereas I tend to love continuity with the past. But I do read them similarly to yourself, that's why I notice how little has changed, because with the exception of how everyday life is run and that they'd be more graphic, I don't think there'd be a great deal of difference if old Tolstoy wrote War & Peace today. Except the uniforms would be uglier.