Whoops. I didn't realize that I was making that judgment as well. I think what I was trying to go for was that I see it as a work of fiction that because it has these depictions of human suffering, the reader can look into it as both being able to see the mind processes of how these characters think in this world and understand it, and at the same time be able to step back and examine this world's culture and compare/contrast its values with modern ones and if it's analogous.