ABSTRACT
In many countries, including Japan, many students want to learn English to make themselves more marketable to employers in current global economy, and educational institutions have repositioned their English programs to meet this demand. Particularly in Japan, individuals from economic organizations often become members of the government's Council for English Education, which is responsible for making all decisions regarding English education. The Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) reports in a survey that almost 65" of Japanese university teachers regard students' low motivation as the greatest problem in English education. To truly learn practical English, education in Anglophone literature is a requisite. Human life presents problems, and many of them arise from globalization; however, globalized life just presents another facet of the human condition, which literature exists to address: suffering, struggle, knowledge, ignorance and other essential aspects of life.
