2007-01-08 04:12:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Because British literature has had an enormous impact on literature all over the world. Because Shakespeare was English. Because the novel is an English invention. Because Beatles were English. And because David Bowie is English.
We live in an Anglo-Saxon culture, and you have to know the minds and thoughts of great men and women.
Besides: English literature is simply fun. Use it to exercise your mind and to get a better language, verbally and written.
2007-01-08 04:21:43 · answer #1 · answered by KirstenP 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because some of it is the most brilliant literature written in the English language... seems kind of self evident.
I don't enjoy much of American literature - but I've read quite a bit of it... it gives a sense of history and culture.
If we forget where we came from as English speakers, we forget much of our pasts...
Personally I hated it... but as I've gotten older, I recognize why I was forced to read it...
Try a bit of really old history - read Thucydides's 'The Peloponnesian War'... translated into English its rather fascinating... particularly as he apparently died in mid sentence writing it...
Reading is a good habit to develop... and it gets nookie.
-dh
2007-01-08 04:20:16 · answer #2 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we speak English, and the Brits have a longer history of English authors and therefore more good ones.
2007-01-08 04:16:55 · answer #3 · answered by dirtyrubberduck 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will make you a more well-rounded individual and place you on equal footing with others who have studied it. Besides, you would miss out on some marvelous (Dickens, Shakespeare) works if you didn't.
2007-01-08 04:16:17 · answer #4 · answered by bandit 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because you have only been around for 300 years and the rest of the world are fed up with you ramming your 'culture' (i.e. Jerry Springer, MacDonalds, Shania Twain) down our throats.
2007-01-08 06:36:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because that way you don't have to translate it into English first
2007-01-08 04:13:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
why do we read anything in school??? because even though you don't realize it...you are getting smarter when you read it....the brain works in amazing ways.
2007-01-08 04:15:39 · answer #7 · answered by Joe B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To become more knowledgeable and worldly people.
2007-01-08 04:21:49 · answer #8 · answered by lovely 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if you don't you will have missed some amazing reading.
2007-01-08 04:23:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because it is so boring and makes the teachers look intelligent
2007-01-08 04:14:38 · answer #10 · answered by sammie 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋