American literature began to emerge around the nineteenth century. Authors wrote what their culture was like through folk tales, narratives, and plays. Which of the following statements best summarizes a role of literature in society?
A. Literature is not used to express cultural themes.
B. Literature can express creative ideas rather than history.
C. Literature can express themes such as religion, justice, and the passage of time.
D. Literature does not reflect themes such as religion, justice, and the passage of time.

C. Literature can express themes such as religion, justice, and the passage of time.

Explanation:

Theme can be defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.

Literature's role in the society can be used express several themes such as religion, politics, justice, war, passage of time,love, friendship, peace, hopelessness, fear, etc.

In almost all cultural societies, ne it the Islamic, indic, the sino-japnese, or the Judeo Christian, the literary tradition I many different firms develops intertwined relationships to religious thoughts.

Literature can be used to explain a theme of fundamental mystery of human existence - of humankind's place in the world and our relationship to the created universe, to the divine. Religion is a key theme in literature that several authors has used in their literary works.

Literature can also express the theme of Justice in a society, literature expressing the theme of Justice usually manifests the moral principle that virtue deserves reward, and vices earn punishment and also literature can preserve and talk about the passage of time, it can talk about a group of people's culture over time, and note the changes in the culture and present their history in literary forms

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