Objectionable Elements

            The role of objectionable elements in literature is to reveal the true nature of the world and how it is full of corruption. Authors use objectionable elements in their works to make it more realistic to the readers. People tend to try run away from the truth and ignore the bad that is happening around them. They are afraid to accept reality and try to make the world what they want it to be. So with the use of objectionable elements in literature, the author tries to portray what the world has become. The author tries to make a point with the use of these elements in order to initiate a thought in the readers mind in seeing the wrong of the situation that the objectionable element is used in. However, these elements that are used in literature could be just to entertain the readers. People take pleasure in sexual contents, violence, and other such elements. To include these in one’s literary work has a higher chance of attracting people to read your production. And with that, comes money, which overall boils down to greed. As for sin, it should be portrayed as something that is wrong and disapproved by everyone. However, everyone has their own view of what is wrong and therefore have a different perspective of what sin is. For example, we know that to murder is a sin. So say that someone is being raped or attacked by another person and defends themselves and ends up killing the attacker. There are some that would say that it was just self defense and they aren’t guilty of murder. Yet as Christians we know that any form of killing is murder and is a sin. So as Christians, it is our goal to help others realize what sin is.

           Literature should represent life honestly. The Bible is the greatest literary work ever written. The author, God, portrays life honestly throughout the Bible. So therefore, other literary works should follow and portray life the same. Also, depending on the literary work, if the author has a message that he/she wants to reveal to the readers, he/she must be honest in the writing. If a person strongly believes something, they have to be honest with themselves in order to get that message across to others. However, there are times I believe that literature should represent life selectively. At times, truth could be overwhelming for some people and cause more pain and confusion rather than understanding. I believe that it mostly depends on the age that literature has to be selective about what they reveal.