However, the development of science finally makes it an important tool for us tounderstand the nature and to change the nature in our favor. The understanding of electricityexpels the old thought that the thunder is a sign indicating that the god is angry. Theadvancement achieved in medicine greatly elongate humans life, and nowadays people no longerdepend on certain rituals to give them health. Discoveries and inventions alike havetransformed our society into the nowadays form, and provide us great power to determineour future. If science is only to reassure us, how can we achieve the feats we have madethrough our history? As Francis Bacon once said, Knowledge is power, the true function ofscience is to give us the power to conquer the difficulties we confront.
Unlike science, arts which seldom give us the power to better our material lives, mainlyconcern about our spiritual lives. Admittedly, some arts actually upset people by let us see theweakness of the human nature or the darkness of our society, as the art works ofMichelangelo. However, arts possess much more functions than just upset us. Arts can easeour emotions and reassure us, as the music of Mozart does; arts can give us confidence andbraveness, as the music of Beethoven does; arts can also tell us what philosophy is, as themusic of Mahler does. Although arts possess so many functions,one can judge that the majorfunction of art is to represent the life and to present the artists ideals. Most literary works,such as fictions, poems, dramas, give us a vivid image of the society. Other forms of arts havethe same kind of functions. For example, Tchaikovsky composed music to represent the hardlife of the common Russian people, while Van Gogh drew pictures to represent the beauty ofthe nature. Therere also other pieces of art showing us the inner part of the artists, forinstance, the representative new trend movie four hundred blows. By presenting the life andthe ideals, arts give us true understanding of our circumstances and ourselves in a spiritualway. Arts can not explain why it rains,but it explains how people feel about the rainy day.
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