Classic works of literature have no place in the mordern English Curriculum?

Question

i have a debate and i am speaking against it.pleaze help!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Who is the Minister of Education at your school and is his last name Goebbels or Himmler?

I don't wish to seem inflammatory, there are works, no matter how old, that are still worthless today.

One should review the work in question before rendering a verdict.

But this is the stuff of free inquiry ... isn't it?

I favor Plutarchs' ' Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans ' myself.

A bit much to get through but it's got it's points. The King James Version of the Bible is unsurpassed by anything.

Does this fall under this heading as well?

Answer 2

There is style and form in classic literature that we have lost. (the way words are phrased and placed in a sentence changes meanings of it's content)
For instance...
ever watch TV in wide-screen and then in the other form close up?
Notice the difference you may miss by viewing it on a shorter screen - seeing the entire picture adds to the movie. Sure it's harder...but you may miss what is happening in the back ground....sometimes the most important part of the idea is lost from what the director intended you to see, he wanted you to see the wide open areas in the background, or the other people in the screen, not just the main characters. Literature is very much the same way. Every word is placed with what they wanted you to see and feel and hear.
Good luck...best thing I can advise is read a piece of modern and then the classic and see which has more drama in it.

Answer 3

Oh, honestly! Of course they have their place in the modern English Curriculum! Literature is the shared inheritance we have from previous generations. Through classic works, we are able to see where we have been (ie, how values have changed, how different philosophies and beliefs have taken hold, how people used to speak, and how people used to live, think, and behave). People reading contemporary literature 100 years from now will learn about our time, just as we learn about the worlds of the authors from the past. I hope this helps.

Answer 4

My argument for teaching classic works of literature:
The best classic literature is usually about the human condition. Individuals interacting with each other or with a larger society. Most of these interactions have not really changed in any fundamental way over the last few thousand years.

After all, humans today are 99.99% genetically the same as 50 thousand years ago.

Answer 5

I find that the proposition is complete rubbish. Consider the Authorised version of the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, the Bronte sisters or Jane Austen. Modern authors, e.g., JRR Tolkien and Christopher Isherwood also draw on the richness of the language and enhance it. wot duz it mater wen i cant rite a sentenz strayt

Answer 6

without the classic works the development of modern literature in all its many forms would not have evolved, many of the modern works are referring in some way to classical literature, not only this but a work of art is of merit for its own sake not just for its relevance to the modern world but as something that stands on its own

Answer 7

I'd love to help but I've never taken mordern English

Answer 8

OK, i wouldn't suffer that much if Charles Dickens' works disappeared, but it would be a tragedy to lose Shakespeare.

A lot of phrases in Shakespeare seem like cliches now ( because we quote them so often), but the information about human behavior and motivations seems to me to be as true now as it was then.

Answer 9

Of course they do!

All of them, since Homer to Marlowe, are essentials!