Some individuals claim that the arts are of significant value since they work in the way that stem subjects can barely accomplish and are capable of reflecting unique aspects in life differently when compared to science.
First and foremost, art owns the power to raise resonance which the cold numbers would not do. For instance, if some artist paints a picture of a mother holding her week-old son standing on the ruins with dusts mingled with tears on her face, it reflects the misery and torture brought by brutal killings or natural disasters, which is straightforward and can triger audience’s compassion and empathy directly since all the blood stains and scars can create bonds in people’s heart especially with the enhancement of heavy music.
These are the effects that science may be unable to achieve since the number of casualty it gives may leave room for people to imagine, which may vary between different individuals and for people who haven’t experienced such tragedy, the picture they imagined may be too beatified to show the real circumstances.
On top of that, writers are able to liberate generation’s minds and embark on a revolution towards a better word. Take Lu Xun, a renowned Chinese writer, for example, he gave up studying medicine and started to write articles about emancipating people’s thinking patterns by rebuking those obselete opinions and introducing new ones. He used his words to expose how old-schooled people’s thinking patterns are by metaphor to get people to realise that there could be a better word if they can toss out feudalism and embark on a society based on science, democrocy and liberaty. This is something that science may not bring as it lay emphasize on the solving problems under the nose but will not bring about changes in people’s thinking pattern.
To sum up, art can bring extras to life like creating empathy between individuals and liberating people’s mind to drive the world towards a better one.