The scope of scripts in Bedford Anthology of World Literature
The Bedford Anthology of World Literature presents literature that nature the reader to associate with the literatures and culture from various civilizations. Initially, Fyodor Dostoevsky focuses on various factors that affected the Russian artists attempting to address the issues from a literature point of view. He felt that Russia stood out as the mainstream of political and economic activities in Europe and deserved westernization treatment. Matsuo Basho shows mastery of the poetic rules through the narrow road, which shows his major travels, addressed through the routes that he used across Europe. Ramprasad Sen writes a religious recapture of India, narrating different cultural values inculcated in the religion. Shakti and goddess symbols surround the poems that furnish the religious lives of the Indian people. The authors of the plays “the Black Elk and Hedda Gabler” narrates about the social life and the interactions of the Native American people. The paper presents responses to these stories in order to highlight their main concepts while evaluating their arguments from a critical point of view.
Fyodor Dostoevsky identifies that the Russian, artists, writers, and the elite went through various challenges, although the challenges acted as the motivating factors to the people. As much as some of the writers hailed from families with histories of brutality, it never acted as the route for them to follow. Decisions to venture into one’s line of interest took most of the time of the people. Dostoevsky narrates his story through a well-organized writing. The author’s motivation to write shows that irrespective of the challenges that the Russian writers and artists faced, the actions taken by each of them depended solely on the decisions that they made. “with some inherited money from his father, devoted himself to writingit was a big success” (Davis et al. 462).
The Black Elk and Hadda Gabler present the Native American social life, with marriage as the major social aspect. Many people in native America lacked stable marriages due to the factors that intrigue their marriages. Presence of European immigrants among the Native Americans affects their marriages in a number of ways. For example, some of the people left their marriages following immigration pressures. Social oppression affects most of the people in Native American marriages and most of them do not last. “Bourgeois marriage offers Hedda no rewards. She is oppressed” (Davis et al. 559). In this context, Hadda Gabler highlights challenges that accompany marriages. Particularly, the story describes how social challenges can affect one’s personality and behaviour. The author accounts that, “Lacking opportunities for happiness in her marriage, Hedda turns to manipulating others” (Davis et al. 559).
Ramprasad Sen shows the religious and employment system among the Asians, with the Islamic and Hindu laws the guide in all the activities that the people undertook. His main challenge as a writer comes in balancing his life outside and inside writing. Although his poems rise and become familiar among the people, he endured serious fights to keep his writing dream alive. He battled the employment arena in order to have his employer on his side. At some points, the employer got angry at his time spent in writing until he read part of his poems. “when his employer discovered the way Ramprasad was spending his time he was angry, until he read the lines” (Davis et al. 614).
In the story the Narrow Road though the Backcountry, Basho shows that he understands the writing and authorship of the European literature by using his experiences positively in his works. Personal experience guides various aspects in his journeys. Basho developed his literature and portrayed his skills through the journeys he made to different places. “through experience, Basho was learning how to balance prose and poetry.” (Davis et al. 653). Concisely, through the analysis of the authors and the works they did in different places of the world, The Bedford Anthology of World Literature gives the reader a wider and more involving scope of literature and reading.
Works cited
Davis, Paul, Gary Harrison et al, Eds. The Bedford Anthology of World Literature. Books 4-6. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. Print
