Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.
For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money.
Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier.
Critics have also questioned the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevaliers jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.
The main idea of both the passage and the lecture is about the accuracy of Chevalier's memoir. In this line of thought, the reading states that some critics claim Chevalier’s memoir is Controversial and feel this way for three reasons which contain the loan from the merchant, the conversations with Voltaire, and the Chevalier's escape from a prison in Venice. The lecturer, on the other hand, casts doubt on all of the three episodes of the arguments mentioned in the passage, believing that none of these strategies are practical and lead to the real world. In the rest of the passage, a comparison between them is provided.
First of all, the reading and the listening materials talk about the loan from the merchant. The author explains the reason of refusing of Chevalier’s claims about while he is living in Switzerland, was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. On the contrary, the lecturer believes that this claim doesn't mean that the Chevalier was poor. But it was a kind of property you have to sell first to get money. So it usually took a few days to convert his assets into actual money. So when he ran out of cash, he had to borrow some while he was waiting for his money to arrive, but that's not being poor. This directly contradicts what the passage indicates.
Second, both the text and the talk, discuss the conversations with Voltaire. The author points out the reason of refusing of Chevalier’s claims about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember the exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier. However, the lecturer notes that The Chevalier states in his memoir that each night immediately after conversing with Voltaire, he wrote down everything he could remember about that particular night's conversation. Evidently, the Chevalier kept his notes of these conversations for many years and referred to them when writing the memoir. This was another place where experience contradicted the theory.
Eventually, the Chevalier's escape from a prison in Venice, which is discussed by both the passage and the lecture. The author mentions the reason for refusing of Chevalier’s claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevaliers jailers were bribed to free him. The lecturer rebuts this argument. The lecturer states that the best evidence, though, comes from some old Venetian government documents. They indicate that soon after the Chevalier escaped from the prison, the ceiling of his old prison room had to be repaired. This opinion directly contradicts the passage presented and making it infeasible.
Sum up, although the passage provides some reasons to spurn the accuracy of Chevalier's memoir, the lecture opposes about the effectiveness and the possibility of those reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, so, while, kind of, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 22.412803532 232% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 30.3222958057 261% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2871.0 1373.03311258 209% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 557.0 270.72406181 206% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15439856373 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85807034144 4.04702891845 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81943065168 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 145.348785872 176% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45960502693 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 871.2 419.366225166 208% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 17.0 8.23620309051 206% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 13.0662251656 207% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.2496636867 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.333333333 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6296296296 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.59259259259 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 4.45695364238 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208147626143 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0576299140477 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543367021998 0.0662205650399 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118711718485 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0456701629858 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 63.6247240618 179% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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