Characteristics Of A Literary Masterpiece

Which literary masterpiece did you enjoy?

Well !! The answer is somehow vaste and which lterature do you mean ?However, as far as I am concerned I should reveal1/ My favoured one in American literature is The Oldman and the Sea by Hemingway and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck2/ In British , Jane Eyre by Chalotte Bronte3/ In Afeican ; Things Fall apart by Chinua Achebe4/ In French : Les Miserables by Victor Hugo5/ In Hebrow literature ;The Dangling man by Saul Bellow6/ In Arabic , The Pen’s Reveal (وحي القلم) by the Egyptian , El Manfaloti7/Last but very far from the least , in my Algerian literature , Fire (الحريق) by Mohammed Dib.

What are the characteristics of good literature?

It makes you think and wonder and this quality has no correlation with the number of pages e.g 1984, Fahrenheit 451It makes you feel (really sad) The Kite RunnerIt makes you know magic Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1), The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)It makes you know that there are so many other realities to know The Book Thief, The Diary of a Young GirlIt makes you understand that humor and sarcasm are mighty weapons to be taken seriously Gulliver's TravelsSome harsh realities of how other people live (read not as privileged as you) The Color Purple, The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-TimeMakes you fall in love and mourn it Love Story (Love Story, #1), The Time Traveler's WifePrinciples in the most simple language To Kill a MockingbirdBut mostly they just tell you good timeless stories that you read once and never forget Little Women (Little Women, #1), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Dr. Suess's Classic Collection (6 books)Love. And thank you for A2A :)

Is the Bible considered a literary masterpiece?

No, honestly, the Bible is the sort of book that wouldn’t make it past the editor’s desk. It’s riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions and straight-out bad writing. Nobody’s quite sure who the protagonist is supposed to be, because it changes halfway through the book.The guy in the first half of the book is a jackass: creates humanity but then throws a tantrum when they do something small that he absolutely told them not to do. He proceeds to allow humanity to flourish, then throws another tantrum later and wipes out the world by virtue of a flood. But he allows some animals and a small family of humans to survive by building a boat way beyond the capabilities and natural physics of boat-building at the time. The hilarious part? Having built a gigantic boat with divinely-inspired methodologies, and restarting the human race, the human who is credited with building the boat utterly rejects those methodologies, and fails to pass them onto future humans for the purposes of building new boats. The protagonist also frees his chosen people by being evil to Egyptians, and then consequently encourages those chosen people to spend years in the desert, committing acts of genocide…basically, he strikes you as a person on drugs with a severe bi-polar disorder that isn’t quite sure what he’s doing, but acts like it’s all planned out.And let’s look at the text itself: even the paragraphs are divided into little sections, just to make it extra quotable. For example:Leviticus 20:9 - If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.Deuteronomy 7:1-2 - When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations . . . then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.Exodus 21:20-21 - If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.That’s very handy. Makes it easy to find that quote you were trying to remember without having to flick through several-hundred pages to find it.Also worth noting: it’s considered a literary masterpiece by many hotel owners, because they insist on leaving you a copy in your nightstand, right by the bed.Otherwise…no, wouldn’t say so.

What would make a literary piece a masterpiece?

I think the quality in literature that makes a masterpiece is its timelessness. In any language, the stories that remain valid and relevant after years are considered the best pieces written.

Why is The Wife of Bath’s Tale a literary masterpiece?

Literature because it’s written to be read (to answer the original question). A masterpiece? Well it’s certainly a moving part of a masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Why is CT a masterpiece? Because of its scale, range, completeness and because it everywhere shows evidence of a cultured, educated mind, a robust humorous sensibility, and the detailed observation of the everyday natural world, human behaviour and the human spirit that we expect from a great poet. Even if none of this were to be the case, it would be inescapable as a cultural artefact as the first major work of literature written in English—and an English that we can still understand 600 years later (with a little help).

Is the Bible a literary masterpiece of garbled rambling?

I suppose you of all people would be able to recognize garbled rambling - being how fluent you are in that subject. "Is he Bible is a literary masterpiece of garbled rambling?" ...... where to start.It's difficult for a thing to be a literary masterpiece and at the same time nothing more than garbled rambling.Although I am opposed to the majority of the Bible's content, it's neither garbled nor rambling. However you are right in that it is a masterpiece using literary devices and subtle references/overtones that one can recognize using a small amount of intuition and context. It's an important piece of world history, and deserves respect as a grand fable if not that of an accurate historical account.Besides the countless verses of repetition and "And God commanded them to slaughter the women, children and kill all the animals of the tribe; or -- Saul begot Sam and Sam begot Thomas and Thomas begot Zachariah and Zachariah begot ___" and so on; there are books like Proverbs and Psalms which actually give insight into the mindset and understanding of what they believed to be a "God" and their supposed strict-yet-superior morals and values. And much more besides.  I harbor no love for Christianity or the Bible, but I do notice and appreciate their few merits and give credit where credit is due.