Louis Rosenblatt Analysis

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Seeing literature as useless is lacking to see the benefits of true aesthetics that it has to offer. Louis Rosenblatt emphasized the importance of teachers playing an important role in what students get out of the literary text and how they act upon it. What she is trying to explain to the readers is that each reading experience is unique to each person. An important part of the message she’s trying to get through to the readers is being referenced to students when she says, “He needs to understand himself; he needs to work out harmonious relationships with other people. He must achieve a philosophy, an inner center from which to view in perspective the shifting society about him; he will influence for good or ill its future development (3)”. Not only will the students need to associate all of …show more content…

Rosenblatt states that “The teacher will do neither literature nor students a service if he tries to evade ethical issues. He will be exerting some kind of influence positive or negative, through his success or failure in helping the student develop habits of thoughtful ethical judgment (17)”. From this quote what was received was that teachers should encourage students to get involved and not to force his own bias onto students. Teachers should offer student’s to have a creative approach and make personal connections and responses to their readings. This would not only influence them to read more, but also to help prepare them to use that critical sense of thinking in the future when they are assimilated into the real world as adults. Rosenblatt writes, “The teaching of literature inevitably involves the conscious or unconscious reinforcement of ethical attitudes (16)”. This would imply that the teachers would be psychologists in a way to liberate the minds of students and influence them to think critically of what can cause the behavior of characters due to human nature and surrounding

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