Question

how did novels bring together different cultures?

Answer 1

Novels brings together different cultures because most of the novels are written with the information of many countries and different cultures and mostly they are never against any religion or culture so in a way that brings different cultures together.
People are able to know about many cultures by reading novels.

Answer 2

(i) Language : The novel uses the vernacular, the language that is spoken by common people. By coming closer to the different spoken languages of the people, the novel produces the sense of a shared world between diverse people in a nation. Novels also draw from different styles of language. A novel may take a classical language and combine it with the language of the streets and make them all a part of the vernacular that it uses.

(ii) Bridging the gap between rural and urban culture : Many novelist like that of Thomas Hardy write exclusively about vanishing rural communities.

(iiI) New culture : Under colonial rule, many of the English educated class found new Western ways of living and thinking attractive. So many Indian novelists started writing about this new culture developing in India.