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12 Memes About Some Good Books
If you think about it, a book is just a long meme on paper rather than a screen. Don't run, hear us out now.
Like memes, they tend to follow formats (in literary studies, genres) such as a science fiction novel, an epic poem or a modernist day-in-the-life experimental piece.
Literature by authors like Lovecraft, Fitzgerald and Kafka addresses the social concerns of its time and the conflicts that people face as they make decisions about who they are and how they’d wish to live.
Now, that might be a tall order for lots of memes, but not all books are literature, just as not all memes are literary.
Here are a few literary memes, however.
Several Hats To Wear
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Of course, the one thing Dante couldn't figure out was how to beat the Black Guelphs and restore his standing in Florence.
People Only Post The Highlights
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Every smiling, gorgeous person on your feed is secretly an alienated cockroach on the inside.
More Metamorphosis
(Source: Reddit)
If you read the book, you'll see that Gregor would kill for a chicken wing after a certain point.
Doomer Literature
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A thick book is a step down a slippery slope to turning into the internet's most unkempt Wojak.
The Marriage Plot
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Marriage was an important economic institution in those days. It was as much a corporate merger as a decision of the heart, and so the marriage plot romantic comedies of the nineteenth century are really as much about the emergence of modern capitalism as they are about love.
Few people know about these Jane Austen works, but they are unjustly overlooked by most scholars.
Hard Work And Determination Ahead
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You can be just like the person who earned a several-hundred-page biography about them, anon.
