Literature through time

Literature has created written history into the minds and way of life throughout time. The way people thought, grew through change, and lived through customs has generated who we are today, in a way that no human can explain why. Literature is a art that has expressed the mind in order to remember the pasts ideas and knowledge of what surrounded the writers during their era of time. The different eras of literature are accustomed to how the people in the world has innovated themselves and their society's expansions all around. The enlightenment period gives reason why someone acts by the way society portrays and demands each person to act, by sticking to a role formed and justified in that society. The enlightenment era, in literature, demonstrates that a means to the structure and beliefs in how someone should live and base their morals, are needed to be looked passed because their is more to living than what is expected for you to do. How the next best way to keep power and people together through different ideas and manipulation was for a purpose; but everyone that makes that society work deserves a voice and a right to the same things. In the text, What Is Enlightenment, Kant exclaims, "Thus the public can only slowly attain enlightenment" (Kant 106). The next era, Romantic era, focuses more on the individual self's perserverance or destitute physically or mentally for a societal preference based on a personal experience. The Romantic era shows a will to search for knowledge through exploration and to develop the minds and structure for a means. In the book Frankenstein, written around 1818, the character Frankenstein is telling his story in first person, as he reflects his past doings and thoughts while experience much of his story in nature. A new era is formed and is called Realism. Realism involves much death and questions the truths through the darker side of human nature. It holds the structures of gender roles and society's class system. Hedda Gabler was a women that came to control her society around her and soon realizes that nothing still doesn't change all in the end. At the end to her destruction, Hedda States, "But in your power. Totally subject to your demands-And your will. Not free. Not free at all. No, that's one thought I just can't stand. Never" (Ibsen 837)! Hedda couldn't stand the power men had in her society and so it lead to her killing herself  because she could not live in loneliness, no say, and no control. These eras structures the way literature is written and interpreted by the reader of the thoughts and way of life during the time they were written. It gives a huge insight to the question of why the were written the way they were.