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Times are as simple as our lack of information about them. When there are few sources of information about a time, we over value the ones that survive and end u
by golemotron 8y ago
Times are as simple as our lack of information about them. When there are few sources of information about a time, we over value the ones that survive and end up with a false picture. I think if we were teleported back we'd see the same panorama of human nature that we see today.
- sandworm101 8y agoThis is literature, not history. The times were simple because the author made them simple. Whether the author's fictional world comports with historical truth is beside the point. The world of Little Women is objectively simpler because we are limited to the information given to us by the author. We don't see the complexity because it is denied us, something true of all historical fiction. People and information move more slowly, which facilitates the storytelling. Diseases are quickly diagnosed, and resolve themselves one way or another quickly enough to not stall the story. That is the simpler time/world that the author chose to use.