Literary Fiction and Empathy

The connections that are made in this article linked fictional characters to improved social skills. This was very interesting to me because the more people I read about in fictional books the more insight I have into how other people think about things. This article put the quote "Walk a mile in my shoes" into perspective because it makes you think about how other people are feeling and how everything that happens effects people in a different way. Hamlet's emotions in his first soliloquy made sense to me and I would have felt the same sadness, depression and anger if I was in his situation.