Contemporary values come and go, they are increasingly fashionable and shifting and are often heavily influenced by market trends and collective feelings. It is helpful to understand literature within the entirety of its historical story and not a limited value programme, so as to fully comprehend what it was and is as a novel. Shifting contemporary values should not supplant any big-picture conversation; such new values should not have greater authority over any work, as this leads us to force projects into a shape so as to accommodate one's own schedule, and often one's own morality. Studying anything with a set agenda will bend the thing to make it serve said agenda. Political and social activisms and ideologies should not lead at the expense of aesthetic values, as this can subvert interpretation and deprive greater appreciation.