Why should the classics be read even today? Probably because the great masters of literature brought something really powerful, personal, and unique to the general stream of faceless books.
Statistics show that modern children, adolescents and adults still read books, but in a slightly different format - in electronic format. This is very good, but the quality of most contemporary pieces is poor. Developed teenagers beyond their years simply do not understand why they should read the classics when there are tons of other fascinating books that are also easily perceived.
Why should schoolchildren read classics
Love for classical literature is instilled from school. The literature program is filled with deep and powerful works by Tolstoy and Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Gogol, and other great authors. However, schoolchildren stubbornly refuse to read their works.
The student must read the classics. After all, it is difficult to consider a person educated if he cannot say a word about the masterpieces of world classical literature. The teenager is not obliged to love these books, but he must know and understand them.
In addition, the classics gently and unobtrusively reveal the real world to the child. Psychologists believe that this is very important for the development and formation of the personality of a teenager. If you look closely, it turns out that next to you lives a girl who looks like Natasha Rostova, and someone who resembles Raskolnikov. It turns out that they do the same things … Classics are a great way to painlessly get to know people, to understand their deep motives.
Why an adult should read the classics
Great writers created their works much earlier than the generation of modern adults was born. Many people conclude that these books are out of date. However, literary specialists and fans of the immortal classics believe that this is simply impossible. Tolstoy and Pushkin, as well as other great writers, raised such problems in their works that are not subject to time, they still do not lose their relevance.
Psychologists around the world recommend turning to classical literature in times of life's difficulties. The book will calm you down, open your eyes to erroneous behavior, and show you ways out of this situation.
Many adult readers admit that by the age of about thirty, they enjoyed reading the classics with true pleasure, although they could not read a page at school. The thing is that with age, a person acquires experience, makes a lot of mistakes, his worldview changes. Hence a different view of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Sooner or later, everyone will come to the classics - domestic or foreign. It's unavoidable. Good books are necessary for a modern person, they have depth and great meaning.
