Why is aesthetics important in literary works?

It is pointed out that literature has the characteristics of multiple values and can only be said to be a plane description of its functional characteristics. It reflects all kinds of realistic influences that literature may have in people's lives, but it does not reveal the essence and particularity of literary value. Because the so-called value of literature should refer to the special role played by this form of social consciousness in human social life. It must be unique to literature, and it is a value that other social consciousness can neither replace nor possess. The value of literature, or more accurately, is the particularity of literary value, that is, the role of the essential characteristics of literature in the process of appreciation. Therefore, to accurately grasp the value of literature, we must proceed from the essence and characteristics of literature, which is the function, ability and efficacy stipulated by the aesthetic essence of literature. Literature and art are the product of people's pursuit of beauty and the concentrated expression of human aesthetic consciousness. As an independent social ideology, literature came into being, developed and existed to meet people's aesthetic needs.

Therefore, fundamentally speaking, the basic value of literature is aesthetics. The so-called basic has two meanings.

First, aesthetics is the basis of various values;

Secondly, aesthetics is the ultimate goal of realizing various values.

Therefore, the various values of literature must be mediated by aesthetics, which ultimately depends on the special content of literature and the special way of expressing content, and it is also proved by a large number of facts that the social function of literature can normally play.