Comparative essay

There are some qualities of dreams which help to separate them from real life occurrences. It is important, then, when writing about dreams, that these qualities are present to help the reader to make the distinction. There is a difference, however, in writing about a dream as the main focus of a literary work, and using a dream in a larger piece as a literary device to further the story as a whole. In each …

…the dream. It is important that, although the goal of using a dream in a work of live action is different, that this dream has the same general qualities of dreams that are written about to stand on their own. This is seen in this dreams comparison to Soseki's Ten Nights of Dreams. Both dreams have similar characteristics which define the actions within them as out of the realm of ordinary for basic human interactions.