Secondly, just as language has left significant influence on the human history, so do the literature. Bible, Shakespeare and works of Greek and Roman, the three sources of language, have greatly enriched our language, enlightened our mind and dramatically changed our life. The Adam’s apple, Pandora’s box and tit for tat, the language in Bible; the famous characters Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Julia in Shakespeare’s masterpieces ; the legend of Helen and Achilles Heel in Greek’s works , all of them are familiar to us as the pulsation in our blood. Therefore, if there were no literature, our language would have been much poorer and our life more colorless and boring。
Also, life has provided fertile soil for the language and literature. On one hand, with the advance of society, new terms and idioms have entered our language, such as computer, avian flu, terrorist, long time no see, as rich as Bill Gates, SAS, HINI . By absorbing everything new, language can always be able to keep its pace with the time. On the other hand, life is an exhaustible magic box for literature creation. Fiction, poem, essay, prose or drama, all can be viewed as a recreation of real life in this way or another. Just as an American writer put it:“All literature is a kind of reflection of life , a mirror of life。”How can one deny that the purely invented man, Hamlet, is not as vivid as Napoleon or Barack Obama. Once language and literature have lost its ability to accept new things in life, they would have become a pool of still water. Only constant moving can keep their freshness and vitality。
It is never too exaggerate to emphasis the close connections among the three. The benefit of language and literature to life is what necessary nutrition is to human beings. Life, in return, contributes a lot to prepare rich and colorful materials for language and literature. As for me, by learning language and literature, I have learnt much more of the logic of life and enjoy my life in the process of appreciating beauty。