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The best thing about popular literature is that you don’t have to think about it: popular literature is pure escapism.
may appear simple at first but which provides avenues to deeper thought and understanding. In this way, texts like Bridget Jones’s Diary can provide pleasurable, relatively non-taxing reading, while still making the reader think about issues such as everyday life-crises, love, and the meaning of life. They also provide an escape – possibly an escape from the stresses of everyday life, but also possibly an escape from stale, stereotypical representations, as popular literature often provides new role models and different viewpoints, as it lacks the restriction of traditional conventions and attitudes. By relieving us from the stress of literary comprehension, popular literature can provide the means for a wider, more socially relevant thought process, hence making us ‘think’, while allowing greater access to (by means of escape from), the ‘real’ world.