There is complexity in the simple and simplicity in the complex. Literature is the most constant method of explaining our past, present and future because it relies on simple truths which stand up to the test of time. Every situation, every relationship, every dream, doubt, and despair has already been captured by a writer's words, and because these truths are so universal, when we read them, we see ourselves. Lovers suffer the same aches, the same joys, the same lessons, no matter if their story was written on a cave wall, or sold in today's local bookstore.
War is always brutal, futile and affects generations to come.
The characters who draw our wrath or respect are as good and evil now as they were then. The stories, and therefore the lessons, never change, only the names of the characters, their individual pieces of the tale, and the time and place in which they live take on different exteriors. Inside, they are the same, as we are the same, and will continue to be the same. It is the price of being human.