In considering the merit of “The Storm” as a work of literature, it would seem that the deeper one ventures into the complexities and nuances of the writing, the more primitive it becomes in terms of theme. The story is frankly about sex, along with the sort of turmoil that can accompany it, but the sex itself, the intercourse, is the simple part. It is everything else that may come with it which Calixta and Bobinot struggle to deal with and which others have struggled with since time immemorial. The Roman poet Catullus, in the famous ode to his dear Lesbia, said it most succinctly: “Let us live, and let us love...and let us appraise the gossip of stolid old men all at one as” (Catullus 5). For some, as in “The Storm,” a lack of sex where it is expected can bring …show more content…
It is a vehicle for insight by which one may better comprehend what it means to be someone, but even still, I have a hard time defining specifically what is and what is not literature. Having grown up behind the screen of a computer, I feel as though I have had an opportunity to discover perspectives that were at one time available exclusively through writing, now through various media, but could I call them literature? I doubt any scholarly article would suggest that a video game could ever be considered literature, but what exactly is it that is lost by including images and interactivity with the same old words that have defined literature in English? Video games nowadays often contain narratives which are quite complex and fraught with emotional weight, but is it the forced perspective? Is it that writing alone leaves so much to the reader’s own view that any additional nudging in a particular direction of thought by the creator robs the audience of the ability to perceive freely? These may seem like absurd questions to you, but I do hope to better define the term while I study in your