LITERARY FICTION & EMPATHY

As the article stated literary fiction does allow one to use their imagination and better interpret emotions. One is able to decode body language and interpret emotions with the help of literary fiction. While reading you pick up meaning between the lines and gain a better grasp on empathy. Literary fiction does indeed demonstrate different effects other types of reading such as popular fiction.

While reading Hamlet, one is able to decode the double meaning behind each word spoken. One is able to feel the emotion behind his struggles. Hamlet provides clear imagery so that one can interpret body language. During Hamlet's soliloquy, the confusion, anger, and depression is evident. It is quite simpler to interpret empathy with this literary fiction because with popular fiction they focus more on the plot and not so much on how things were spoken.