wanderingintofocus

‘Nowadays, the pleasures of reading can never compete with the pleasures of visual entertainment.’ To what extent do you agree? (2018) From flashy cinematography coupled with action-packed cutscenes, to home productions filmed on a low budget with a GoPro camera, the space of visual entertainment has something to offer for everyone. With the rise of the smartphone putting access to on-demand video streaming in everyone’s pocket, traditional media such as the storybook and novel might struggle to remain relevant and accessible. However, to claim that the pleasures of reading nowadays can absolutely never compete with that of visual entertainment would be indefensible, especially since reading provides a different type of pleasure that can stimulate the imagination in ways that virtually every other medium cannot. Today, it is more common to see commuters on the train streaming the film adaptation of a novel than reading the paperback novel itself. Detractors argue that the pleas...