A person can almost wholly learn the history of the world though literature that has been written. This is because the people and times have such a great influence on the writers and their work. Authors did not simply grab ideas from the sky. These ideas came from their mind; they wrote about what they knew. And what they knew is what surrounds them, whether it be war, peace, or a time of transition. In …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 947 total…affected every move that they make. Also many people of the fourteenth century work within the church and that it provided many jobs. In Beowulf, one can see that people depended on God to help them in difficult situations, and what happens is meant to be and cannot be help or stopped. The lives and times of people are recorded in words, and the forces that controlled their lives were reflected in to the literature.