Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 74, University of Warwick, language: English, abstract: This essay focuses on the nature of literature, and primarily its relationship with human identity and contemporary society. The focal element of the inquiry will be the consideration of literature functioning as a cynosural social conscience, and the extent to which it defines, affects and reflects collaborative social identity whilst remaining a non-cognisant 'entity' in its own right.