You have to know a lot about society at the time the book was written, the prevalent religion of the culture, its literary heritage. In English that means at a minimum the classics, the Bible and Shakespeare.
Or let someone else do the work and read sparknotes.
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You have to know a lot about society at the time the book was written, the prevalent religion of the culture, its literary heritage. In English that means at a minimum the classics, the Bible and Shakespeare.
Or let someone else do the work and read sparknotes.