Blog post #2

In the part of Jonathan Cullers writing “The nature of literature” the angle I find most interesting was where Jonathan defines literature as “fiction”. One beautiful thing about literature is that you can take it however you want to, you can use your own life experiences or imagination to understand it, which goes the same for fiction itself. In this part culler states “we can relate hamlet to the world in different ways at several different levels. The fictionality of literature separates language from other contexts in which it might be used and leaves the works’ relation to the world open to interpretation”.In this quote Culler explains how Hamlet is related to in different ways and not just one, the fiction of it allows people to interpret it however they want to. The reason why this was so interesting to me is because I never saw it this way and yet I agreed with it so quickly.