This paper asks six different questions about literature. What would an instruction manual for assembling a fertilizer spreader have to be to count as literature? Why does Shakespeare cast most of his lines in poetic meter? What function does this serve? Give Examples from Macbeth. What is the plot (or actions) of a play? What is the plot of Macbeth? What are the major turning points in the plot of Macbeth? Why does Dostoyevsky fabricate a double to tell his story of imprisonment? What universal truths about humanity does Dostoyevsky communicate in House of the Dead?
