Are classics relevant in 2022? Eleni J. Taylor, Charter North Dulwich

Most of classic literature was written in decades that have long since had any relevance to our current society. As a GCSE student studying classic literature, I do not relate to a lot of the characters portrayed in the classics because of how different our society is to how it was before the 1900s. Many books of this time period feature misogynistic, racist and ableist themes and yet they are still in GCSE curriculums. It is time we reviewed these texts and questioned their relevance in our mod