Streetcar named Desire and
Gift of the Magi are examples of how art imitates life. In
Streetcar you have the New Orleans Jazz element, the destitute family, and the reckless
Southern Belle (Blanche) with not a clue at what she has been up to all the time
throughout the play except the end. In Gift of the Magi, you have the quintessential
newlyweds with no money in New York.
The previous post was
very accurate: Art imitates life and these stories are a symptom of time. So most works
of Lit will definitely be a product of time.
Shakespeare's
sonnets and plays depict the old Britain, yet, the topics infused within were a symptom
of Elizabethan (his own modern) England.
Ezra Poud Keats- A
white man- was able to reconstruct and retell stories of African American boys in New
York in the 196o's
Charles Dickens reconstructed history in
Great Expectations and built his knowledge upon the works of generations of historians
and family friends who belonged to such communities.
Lord
Byron wrote the Childe Harrold's Progress based on the Algerian
community.
Again, it was quite accurate for the previous
post to say how art is supposed to reflect the community. I hope you can use our info
and our examples.
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