... 'shapes' society literature functions socially to maintain and stabilize" (425). For my theory on the relationship between literature and society, I am using Plato, Wordsworth, Marx, Bakhtin, Fitzgerald, Mitchell, and Althusser. I believe that literature and society cannot function without each other and that literature is a direct ... art and eventually creates action. This creates a nature of illusions that threaten society. Plato refers to this as his theory of Mimesis, or imitation. Plato discusses his theory of mimesis in his "Allegory of the Cave" in Book VII of The Republic. ...

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