Thanks again, Jessamyn West
2006-12-20 06:52:44 · 9 answers · asked by gotalife 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Ha, to quote V For Vendetta "Artists use lies to tell the truth". The best example I have of this is Aesop's fables. We all read them as children. Sure these weren't factual occurrences, but the allegories were so simple and yet so powerful as to stick out in a young mind, and they ALWAYS had a moral. Everyone remembers the ant and the grasshopper: the grasshopper played all summer while the ant worked very hard to store for winter. The last line of the fable is "Idleness brings want". This is where the fiction of an ant and a grasshopper engaged in dialogue melts away to reveal a deeper truth: it is important to work hard to prepare for an uncertain future. In a sense the Bible can demonstrate the same idea. The people that don't believe the Bible is literal can not deny the fact that the Bible teaches many valuable lessons, even if a virgin really *can't* conceive a child.
2006-12-20 10:05:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
For me it does. For some reason, when I read a fictional story or when I hear song lyrics, for instance, there is more truth to them than many things in reality. Reality states things plainly and bluntly, but fiction turns reality into poetry, and for me(I have a poet's heart) it makes much more sense.
2006-12-21 08:33:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
VERY GOOD QUESTION!
well none of the 3 are related,
but truth & fiction are more like adopted siblings.
Reality is their foster mom....
Well truth is the eldest, he always bully fiction around
while fiction always lie... he meant to get away from trouble
caused by Truth...
Reality always try 2 be fair.... though fiction is more harmless,
she trust Truth more.
when reality's near it's end, Fiction is the only one there around ... Truth is NOWHERE 2 BE FOUND.
now tell me which is more trushworthy?
2006-12-20 15:59:03 · answer #3 · answered by simplyJESSE 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some truths are so powerful, profound, disturbing, upsetting, disheartening and saddening that they need to presented in such a way that people have to choose to come towards them themselves to understand them, and in so doing allowing time for them to prepare themselves so as to lesson the impact when it happens and shelter the people who don't want to know or couldn't handle it if they did know. Knowing some truths can overwhelm all but most prepared and hardy minds and can even drive some people mad.
2006-12-20 15:18:49 · answer #4 · answered by Stan S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In that fiction tends to get the reader/observer to think about the situation, yes.
Fiction often stirs the imagination to examine what is "known" and usually finds many things that were unknown.
2006-12-20 15:50:37 · answer #5 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is my great philosophy of life.
Literature is the best and truest teacher of what life really is (the truth).
Psychology, philosophy (so what if I am in the philosophy section), sociology, all the so-called ologies, take a back seat to the great OZ of literature.
2006-12-21 10:15:04 · answer #6 · answered by happy inside 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reality is a fiction, it reveals and obfuscates at its own pleasure.
2006-12-20 15:27:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
often. and, most importantly, especially modernly, allows one to reveal certain truths, which, if represented as fact, would get the author murdered by the present.......you fill in the rest ;-)
2006-12-20 14:56:51 · answer #8 · answered by drakke1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reality is fiction, that is why it is real.
2006-12-20 16:21:45 · answer #9 · answered by weism 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋