English literature is a path to knowledge. As with all World literature, the English literature has been a key for understanding the world and a means of inspiring and supporting cultural and social movements.
Inspired by folklore, this literature continue to transmit from one generation to the others messages of cultural awareness, of beliefs, spiritual growth, ideals ans many manifestations of the human spirit.All over the world myths and legends similarly explained life and universe.
The English literature served as a model for European and American literature but has also taken its part of insipiration from these. The novels of Modernism and Postmodernism sought to find a way to explain the trauma of the modern individual , given the reality of the dramatic World Wars, to understand the alienation of the individual.
Reading is a way to live inspired...one can evade or better come to terms with his/her own reality if the literary work conveys a clear message. The spectators of the Greek Theatre purified themselves of evil manifestations when seeing the wrong-doers being punished for their deeds, therefore Old or Modern/Postmodern English literature in its extraordinary variety of forms and genre has this purifying, educating effect.