Didacticism

Didacticism is the philosophy that emphasizes the conveyance of educational messages. There is always moral or theme. The instruction is more important than entertainment. Thus, artistic quality of the text is usually inversely proportional to the intensity of didacticism. The example of didacticism includes the literary form of much European and American eighteenth- century, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and the poem Georgics, by Virgil.