Question

write a short letter for yourself about how do you think literature can help you deal cope with this pandemic?​

Answer 1

In this time, the humanities, and history and literature in particular, offer important insights into how people have dealt with the trauma of pandemics in the past, and how to make sense of a world now in many ways beyond our control.

If history illustrates the effect of pandemics on whole communities, then literature gives us a more intimate view.

When we consider the changes, both short and long term, that the coronavirus may bring for us, we should remember that the world we know today was shaped by the pandemics of the past. This realization can help us cope with these difficult days.