Why read the books of the classics of Russian literature?

Interesting today is the question of whether it is necessary to read the books of the classics of Russian literature to young people of our time. Why should they "bother" themselves with difficult novels of Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Do they need Pushkin, Lermontov, Chekhov, Turgenev and others? The answer is only one - it is just necessary to study the ingenious works of these great people.

Books of classics

And all because our great classics in their literary works touch upon very important and burning questions of education of morality and spirituality in a person, the search for faith and the meaning of life. Man constantly has to fight something: with society, with himself, with personal enemies and solve many different kinds of problems. The crisis can come at any moment, and sooner or later he will want to know what happiness, love, is a reward or punishment, what is death and whether there is a God ...

Books classics make you come close to all these issues and with the help of characters to reveal to us some secrets of the human essence, often look into yourself, draw the right conclusions and find a way out of a difficult situation.

Meaning

How exactly does Leo Tolstoy in the novel "Wars and Peace" describe the idea, which is the need for every person to constantly improve, and that the beauty of the physical and the soul is not from nature, but appears as a result of irrepressible work?

In this infinite self-improvement is the meaning of life. It is necessary to strive to become better, kinder and more moral. This is the only way to earn happiness, since it is given only to those people who have reached a high spiritual level.

Temptations

A person can make mistakes. But after all, it is in itself weak and imperfect and very easily amenable to various temptations. As in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, his hero Raskolnikov decides to kill the nasty and greedy old woman, since he decided for himself that the worthless and evil people do not belong in this world, and now he can take on the role of a judge to facilitate Thus the life of many other unhappy people. And he considered this point of view to be the most correct one. However, people have a conscience - a kind of moral self-control, which sooner or later will awaken in any individual and will act pohlesche any sophisticated executioner. Raskolnikov felt all this on himself.

Books

Well, now, in fact, you can list the books of classics, with which it is necessary to familiarize each intellectually developing person. The list will be very brief, since everything simply does not fit into one small article.

The books of the classics include Pushkin's works: Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, and, of course, his extraordinary tales; M. Lermontov: "Borodino", "Hero of Our Time", "Demon"; M. Dostoevsky: "The Idiot", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Crime and Punishment"; N. Gogol: "Taras Bulba", "Dead Souls", "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka"; L. Tolstoy: "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina"; A. Chekhov: "The Lady with the Dog", "Cherry Orchard", "Three Sisters"; I. Turgeneva: "Fathers and children", "The Noble Nest", "Notes of the Hunter".

Also, we should not forget about the works of M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A. Griboyedov, M. Gorky, N. Nekrasov, A. Blok, A. Ostrovsky, N. Leskov, etc.