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This paper discusses about �The Role of Literature in Personality Development�. Literature is a form of language that intensely influences the minds of people of all times, and each language has its own literature. It has been comprehensively agreed that literature is the mirror image of the social order. Literature being the mirror of society, a book written at a particular point of time gives the details of the people, their thoughts, their traditions, and the influences of that era. This paper describes that the study of literature not only support personal growth but also specifically it can encourage personal growth to meet future requirements and challenges. Thus, literature may be defined as a serious and organized expression of the actual thoughts about different spheres of life, created or transformed in the minds of writers. Authors of literature considerably transfer the real-life incidents of their society into creative writing and show it to society as a mirror with which people can take a look at them and reforms where essential. This paper also explores that when we read, our imaginations take over and we cannot help but become part of the plot in a fiction or non-fiction work. We find ourselves empathizing with the characters and living through them as they plod on and deal with the predicaments they find themselves in. We see how they solve their problems, the mistakes they make and how they could have made better choices. We learn how the personalities of different characters deal with situations and intermingle with each other. We live and learn through the experiences of the characters.

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