Human beings need it precisely because literature is of great significance to human life.
Sometimes, the classics of an era will affect and promote the whole social life.
Hugo's Les Miserables promoted the cause of the protection of prisoners, Mrs Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited the flame of the slave liberation movement and became the fuse of the American Civil War, and Tolstoy's War and Peace injected impetus into the European people's counterattack against the aggression of German imperialism.
This shows the great role of classics.
Classic works can influence readers, educate readers, adjust people's mood, improve people's spiritual realm and inspire readers to pursue and create beautiful things.
As a middle school student, it is the youth during the formation of outlook on life and world view. Schools and teachers have the responsibility and obligation to recommend classic works for students and guide them to read.
This is conducive to cultivating students' ideological quality and aesthetic ability, broadening their cognitive horizons and purifying their hearts.
First, guiding reading classics will help students cultivate their temperament and improve their aesthetic taste.
Classic works give people aesthetic pleasure, make people enjoy beauty and spiritual pleasure, thus edifying their temperament and improving their aesthetic taste.
When reading classic works, students always react with different emotional intensity to the contents of the works, such as characters' behavior, fate and various life scenes, causing beautiful, ugly, noble, despicable, sad or ridiculous feelings, which will make students feel * * *.
Classic masterpieces inevitably inject the writer's life ideals and aesthetic feelings, and permeate the writer's discovery and thinking about the beauty of reality.
For example, Liu Zongyuan's poem Jiang Xue shows a clear and profound realm, which can touch students' aesthetic feelings. The poet poured his interest and life meaning into the snow scene described, and the poet was hit politically. He turned a very dangerous environment into a cold and lonely realm, revealed the poet's inner tenacity and turmoil in tranquility, revealed the poet's ideal, attitude towards life and aesthetic taste, and gave people aesthetic taste.
Another example is Zhang Chengzhi's novel "Dark Horse", which is just a story of looking for my former lover, showing the remorse and regret of my lover who was abandoned after I became a cadre in college.
However, the author not only opened the rich life world of grassland people for readers, but also endowed them with strong aesthetic taste, which made readers feel the vast grassland, heavy Che Le, gentle and kind women, tough and deep men, great maternal love and various primitive and backward customs. We also see the struggle between love and ugliness, disappointment and hope, civilization and ignorance, so that readers can grasp the internal details of the whole national era in aesthetics.
Another example is China contemporary poetess Shu Ting's poem "To the Oak", which describes a loved one of a kapok tree and his love for the oak tree, making readers feel the power and firmness of love, thus establishing a new era of love without attachment, equality and mutual respect.
Describing beautiful things in famous books can arouse people's feelings about beauty, and describing ugly things can also arouse people's feelings about beauty.
The comedy The Miser by Moliere, a French classical writer, created the image of Abagong, a miser. He tried his best to collect wealth and treasure, and even broke off relations with six relatives, which was ruthless.
By mocking and mocking him, the writer denies his ugly behavior and sets off the beautiful things in life, so that readers can gain a special aesthetic value and have a fuller understanding of beauty and ugliness.
Classic works have an important compensation function for human spirit, that is, when people's needs are not met in reality, they can get compensation from literary works.
People who have never been to Mount Tai can feel the satisfaction of "the top of Mount Tai", and those who have never seen Notre Dame de Paris can feel it from "Notre Dame de Paris". Weak-willed people can have Robinson's adventure and Kochakin's strength; People who don't understand love can feel the tenderness and sweetness of Romeo and Juliet, and the lingering feelings of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.
Classic works broaden people's spiritual world and improve people's spiritual pursuit and aesthetic taste.
Second, guiding reading classics will help students broaden their horizons and enrich their life knowledge.
By reading classics, students can cultivate their temperament, improve their ability to observe and understand life, learn more about the long history and the society at that time from the classics of different periods, make up for the lack of understanding of the past due to age, and thus broaden their horizons.
For example, when middle school students read Du Fu's poems "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", they can learn a lot of historical knowledge and life knowledge during the "An Shi Rebellion" in the Tang Dynasty, which can enhance their understanding of the contradictions and struggles in feudal society, as if vividly seeing how the newlyweds were forced to separate and how the old couple were forced to join the army to fight; The desolation of the countryside, the ruthlessness of officials, the hardships of life and the sorrow of the people are all in front of us, and the shouts are still in our ears.
This makes students realize that the "An Shi Rebellion" not only made the Tang Dynasty face the danger of disintegration, but also brought great disaster and pain to the people, and also better understood Du Fu's feelings for the country and the people.
The classics produced in the past always leave the life content and historical traces of that era, while the classics produced now always reflect people's life, struggle and spirit of the times.
The scope and time of readers' life are limited, and it is impossible to experience and exhaust all social life, while masterpieces provide readers with richer life experiences and richer social life knowledge.
For example, Lu Xun's novel Diary of a Madman has created an image of a persecutor for readers. By describing the behavior and psychology of a madman, the author reveals that the old feudal society was a cannibal society, and this period of history is the history of cannibalism.
Let the students know clearly that this is the social reality in China at that time, and this is the root of people's ignorance and numbness.
It's like a Q written by Lu Xun. In Ah Q's mind, revolution is rebellion, and rebellion is decapitation. This is his orthodoxy.
Just like the tea drinkers in Lu Xun's Medicine, in their minds, Yu Xia was crazy to persuade Laotou to rebel, so he deserved to die, which is in line with their thinking logic. If this time, it would be a bit funny to persuade Ah Q to learn from the revolutionaries and ask the tea drinkers to sympathize with Yu Xia.
Because the society they live in is a specific environment, in this dark, decadent and sinful society, it is impossible for those who are persecuted and fooled to have these merits, which is also the reason why Lu Xun devoted his life to "shouting" and smashing "iron houses" and its great significance.
Therefore, guiding students to read classics can not only broaden their horizons and enrich their knowledge, but also be of great benefit to reading related textbooks and reading comprehension in exams.
Thirdly, guiding the reading of classic works is helpful for students to purify their minds and improve their personality.
Classic works not only give readers knowledge, but also make readers think about the thoughts and feelings, love and hate, good and evil, beauty and ugliness expressed in the works, and even get spiritual shock and baptism, from which they can get enlightenment and lessons.
Classic works show the truth, goodness and beauty, which is instructive to readers.
Reading classics is not only a process of appreciation and understanding, but also a process of being infected and taught.
Facing the good and evil, truth and falsehood, beauty and ugliness shown in famous works, students always compare their own lives and thoughts, thus arousing a sense of right and wrong and morality.
When students read Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, they will have a funny feeling about the image of Don Quixote. At the same time, they will realize that people's thoughts and behaviors should conform to the objective reality and cannot act rashly according to their own whimsy, otherwise they will hit a wall everywhere.
And "How Steel Was Tempered", "Song of Youth" and many other famous works that show heroes will make students receive education. They will not only worship pavel korchagin and Lin Daojing from the heart, but also learn from them in real life, imitate them, improve their spiritual realm, strengthen their will and purify their souls.
Xunzi believes that art is "deeply rooted in people's hearts and transformed into people quickly", and Wang Chong, a thinker in the Han Dynasty, also believes that "the pen of a scholar exhorts good and punishes evil".
Excellent writers in history are often excellent educators.
In their works, by depicting reality and exploring people's spiritual world, they always reveal truth, praise beauty, criticize evil and laugh at stupidity, which plays a great educational role in cultivating people's lofty thoughts and feelings, strengthening their character, forming a positive outlook on life and purifying their minds and souls.
Classic works reflect, explain and evaluate life with vivid and concrete images, so their functions are vivid, lively and subtle, mainly through image infection and aesthetics.
Tao Yuanming's poems do not directly preach morality, but when students read his poems, they wander in the realm and recite them repeatedly, and those vulgar and despicable thoughts and qualities are naturally diluted, suppressed or overcome to some extent.
Guiding students to read classic works, on the one hand, is an extension of limited teaching materials, which expands students' reading scope and knowledge, builds a platform for students to understand the history and social status quo of China and even the world, which is unknown due to a large time span or space span, and plays a positive role in enriching students' knowledge and improving their reading ability.
On the other hand, students can learn many excellent qualities, healthy thoughts and feelings and positive attitudes towards life from the authors of these classic works, or from the images of their works, which will help students strengthen their self-cultivation and improve their personality.