ABSTRACT
Literature plays a role in social systems that the author have heard discussed by a sociologist under the headings of integration, isolation, opposition and conformity. Belinsky considered literature as a product of society, reflecting and expressing its development, influencing and educating it; a work of art must be seen in relation to the historical moment in which it appears, and the attitude of the artist to society; consideration of aesthetic values must be combined with an analysis of social and historical significance. The romantic ideology of art is the ideology of that responsibility, a responsibility born out of a sense of victimhood, of community in a hostile universe, and destined like Prometheus, its central creation, to be the perpetual advocate and defender of Man against Barbarism, community against irresponsibility, life against homicidal and suicidal obedience.'. .
