BEAUTY OF NATURE

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Perhaps he means that the books present us with models to understand humansPerhaps he means that when literary characters are well developed,you could get inside their minds and if they’re well developed and expressed then they become more real to you then a random person you pass on the street and you could become attached to them (eg. Harry Potter)What’s interesting about society is the mask that they wear vs their reality. The mask is made by the person and that creative act is whats interesting, but not the reality behind the mask which is boring.It is a humiliating confession but we’re all made of the same stuff.Human nature isn’t what’s interesting but the creative masks are what is interesting.He says that a steady course of Balzac reduces our friends to shadows.This is because he develops the characters amazing and therefore they are more real to us than our friends.He says that one of the greatest tragedies of his life was when one of Balzac’s characters was killed. He writes that Balzac creates Life and didn’t copy it.He writes that the only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us. Wilde would tell Charles Dickens who wrote about sad young boys to reform the laws of England that you should do that in a novel because youshould infuse art with politics and realism.He writes that if one can’t reread a book over and over again then its not a good novel. He writes that Art finds her own perfection within and not outside of herselfIf Plato is going to argue that art is bad because it’s a poor representatio