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What is one of the higher purposes of literature that an author might undertake?

A. Sharing entertaining stories
B. Retelling classic stories in modern ways
C. Persuading readers to change their attitudes
D. Making their characters famous

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the answer is c) persuading readers to change their attitudes
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The answer is C: Persuading readers to change their attitudes.

Great works of literature throughout history all have reshaped society´s views on an endless number of attitudes, behaviors, conceptions, and ideas. Indeed, this is one possible higher purpose of literature. The examples are virtually countless, but one could mention Tolstoy´s Ana Karenina and how it impacted society´s views on seduction and love, or Dostoyevsky´s Karamazov brothers which made society revaluate views on family ties, responsibility, humaneness and even the understanding of a divine being and its role in one´s own life.

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