Literary Fiction & Empathy

The article makes sense in a way that literature fiction helps readers develop ideas of a character based on inference. Fiction helps understand others because one can analyze the character's emotions and opinions based on their actions and words. In the case of Hamlet, the reader is able to identify what kind of character he is by analyzing his soliloquy. Although he seems to have a diplomatic manner when confronted about his emotions of his father's death, his soliloquy states otherwise as a moment of despair and frustration. With both analysis Hamlet's attitude, the reader is able to piece together his character.