8 Classic Literary Works That Hide Much More Details In Their Narrative Than Seems At First Glance

Who doesn’t remember the wonderful literature classes from school days, which transported us to the imaginary world of books? Certainly, many were confused and even a little lost when we had to explore the senses and views of the authors in the classroom. Especially when what the writer wanted to say wasn’t on the surface of the text, let alone what most critics understood. Sometimes, the literary work hides a deeper and more invisible context in a superficial reading.

With that in mind, we awesome.club, we made a list of eight classic works whose true meaning may not have been understood by everyone. Check out!

Miguel de Cervantes never hid that the story of Don Quixote was a parody of a chivalric romance. At the beginning of the 17th century, this type of narrative became very popular: books about noble knights, full of clichés and inconsistencies, were loved by the public. Don Quixote was seen by some readers as noble and honest. In fact, what Cervantes wanted to convey was a collective image about knights, that they were pathetic and deplorable. One after another, the writer ridiculed the clichés, showing his main character as an eccentric and strange person who sometimes commits frankly insane and very far from reality acts. Just like the image of Don Quixote’s lady: she was actually an ordinary peasant girl, coarse and unkempt.

Many readers regard the novel as the height of pure chivalry, and Don Quixote has become a symbol of spiritual purity, ingenuity, nobility, and reckless bravery. Cervantes failed to dissuade the public that the book was a parody, a pompous tale. In the end, though, he spurs his readers on. Don Quixote in his will left an inheritance for his niece, but established an indispensable condition: she couldn’t marry men who read chivalric romances. Only then would the inheritance become her property. With this, Cervantes implied that this type of literary work was read by absolutely everyone.

The despotic novel was published in 1953 and describes a mysterious society of the future, in which books are banned – all found are burned. But there is a group of rebels who are memorizing the text of the works to store information for future generations.

Obviously, many critics and readers believed that the novel addressed the problems of state censorship and the oppression of free thought in a totalitarian society.

However, during an interview, the author spoke that he had something else in mind. In fact, it is a threat to books, but not because of censorship, but because of the emergence of television.which can dangerously affect a person, according to Bradbury.

Not everyone knows that Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym used by Father Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. In addition, he was also a professor of Mathematics. When the book was published, Father Dodgson’s contemporaries were amazed that such an extraordinary novel was written by a person who was quite closed and conservative in his views.

In the 19th century, Mathematics was undergoing major changes, and the controversial concept of imaginary numbers gained much acceptance at the time. However, Dodgson belonged to the group of scientists of the old school, and in his time this science was studied according to long-known textbooks. Then all of a sudden there were young experts who had a fresh perspective. Therefore, Dodgson as a Conservative, received all this with hostility. And he decided that he would write a novel about a world where the laws of mathematics were abstract, just to show readers how crazy this new perspective on mathematics was. Objects change size and proportion because the world of fairy tales is based on a new algebra with imaginary numbers. Alice, on the other hand, played a traditionalist scientist trying to control herself and not freak out about it all.

“I am increasingly amazed that my adult books are being read in schools, and that young people considered James Bond a hero. Although for me he is not a hero, but just a professional who efficiently copes with his work🇧🇷 That’s what Fleming said about his character, and to whom he owes his enormous popularity as a writer.

The author never overestimated Bond, in fact he considered him a boring person. Therefore, he decided to openly show this other side of the agent in the book spy and lover🇧🇷 He wrote the work from the perspective of a woman in love with Bond, bringing out many of his flaws. But the spy’s fan readers didn’t like the idea very much and continued to admire the hero even more.

The satirical dystopia created by Anthony Burgess, and which made him famous as a writer, ended up disappointing the author. In his opinion, the readers completely misunderstood the work, and he was unable to clear up the matter.

“We suffer from the desire to defame famous people. The book that made me famous, or even just what I’m known for, is a romance I’m willing to give up: he was written a quarter of a century ago by stupidity and money, it became the raw material for a film that glorifies violence. The film led readers into a misunderstanding of what it is really about, and that misunderstanding will haunt me until my death.”

When Brenchley wrote his novel, he relied on information about how fishermen caught great white sharks, as well as stories about great white shark attacks, though there were very few of them.

The book Shark became a huge success, and the film adaptation attracted even more attention, so much so that the writer felt responsible for how his work influenced people. Many began to panic in fear of sharks. And Benchley himself began to purposefully study the behavior of these animals and realized that he was mistaken in many ways and had demonized them in vain.

“Given the knowledge I’ve accumulated about sharks over the past 25 years, I probably wouldn’t be able to write Shark today… By choice, never. He believed that, generally speaking, great white sharks were anthropophagic and preyed on humans by choice. Now I know that almost all attacks on humans are accidental. Sharks mistake humans for their usual prey,” shared the writer.

But by then it was no longer possible to change the readers’ minds.

One of the writer’s most famous works, which has been adapted for the big screen several times, was initially published in a magazine, but it did not arouse the interest of readers. The tragedy of loneliness, the drama of a person in the face of a merciless and meaningless fate, the parasitism of those around him – all this was not noticed at first. So Kafka refused to publish any more, and before his death he asked a friend to burn the manuscript. Fortunately, the request was not granted. Kafka became famous, his work was understood by many, but he never knew it.

The novel about a troubled teenager was too daring for the 1950s. Harsh vocabulary and discussions of the intimate aspects of life immediately drew the attention of the censors and the work was banned. Later, The Catcher in the Rye it was considered a book that provokes inappropriate behavior and rebellion. And only after a few decades it began to be perceived as a psychological text about the problems of teenagers, their struggle with themselves and attempts to adapt to the world around them.

Have you read any of these classics? Notice the nuances in the plot that are not visible at first glance? Tell us in the comments section.