Literary Fiction And Empathy

I think that fiction makes it easier to understand others is that it can be written in a way to where we can completely see in their mind and what they think or feel. Using Hamlet as an example, Hamlet's soliloquy is a section where Hamlet tells all of his feelings and how upset about the death of his father and the upcoming marriage of his mother and his uncle. With that soliloquy, we get a general idea of what Hamlet is feeling, and that gives us a real feeling to a fictional character, it gives us a feeling of sympathy for Hamlet because we know how sad he is feeling about all the events that have happened and that are happening.