If you were to compare literature before than today how will you describe it?

Question

Pre colonial until 20th century

Answer 1

If we think about literature as a whole, not only of the western world but globally, we see trends that rise and fall through theme, characters, and prose. If you wish to stick to the western world, we can compare three different authors, John Milton, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and George Orwell. We see three drastically different authors who covered differing subjects including, religion, man and science, and one about man vs society. Each of these authors stories had extremely complex characters that were portrayed in differing ways as well.

See Books bellow

John Milton Paradise Lost

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

George Orwell 1864