It’s safe to say we all regret it.
I am convinced we are told these overly verbose, and largely dreary tomes are deemed “classic” and “must read”. Their sole purpose is to enable and empower “Literature” professors to show how much better they are than everyone else.
First by possibly reading the whole thing. And having some sort of martyr complex.
And 2d to essentially to imbue and inflict anyone not able run away fast enough from receiving their whole philosphical outlook into that book. “Hamlet, of course is all about (fill in woke de jour philosphy here)”.
“Moby Dick is OBVIOUSLY Melville’s railing against women and disputing the confines of the patrirarchical, post humanist, consumerist, Capitalism....”
YMMV