53. In order for any work of art—for example, a film, a novel, a poem, or a song—to have merit, it must be understandable to most people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Any work of art can only have merit when it is understandable to most people, as the speaker asserts. Admittedly, in some areas of art, it is of vital importance if the product of art is intelligible. Yet there are still many cases in which art pieces are celebrated not just for its readability, but for their other feats. Examples in perspective of films, novels and painting can be used to illustrate the ideas above.
It is undeniable that the ability to be understood by most people serves as a major advantage when evaluating commercial films. In today’s film industry, the production of a well-organized commercial film requires large amounts of time and investment, thus the director should make efforts to make his work popular. Take James Cameron for example, the grandiose picture and fathomable plots in his talented masterpiece Titanic not only helped broke the box office record, but also made James an Oscar winner of the year. If Cameron had decided to make Titanic an abstruse film, it would be sure that the movie company will lose money and the director himself will be in no compare to the status he enjoys today.
However, in the area of novels, a great work of literature does not necessarily have to be understandable to most people. When writers seek to depict a certain group of people, or a certain period of time, there are plenty of methods for them that can help them create an atmosphere they are to establish. Some of the methods, such as the applying of memories, myths and tales, can inevitably make their work less readable, yet rather valuable. For example, Ulysses by James Joyce, Remembrance of the Things Past by Marcel Proust, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marcos. All of these classic novels are appreciated widely and the merits within them stand as a monument in the history of literature, even though most people may find it hard to understand them.
Obviously, the value of paintings can also not be diminished while they are difficult to understand somehow. Painters, especially those considered as impressionism, are usually emotional and striking when using colors. As a result, their work can sometimes be rather personal which make it difficult to truly understand what they are trying to convey. Van Gogh, though admired nowadays, had never earned the fame he deserved during his lifetime. In his famous work Wheat Field, he unconventionally used red and blue to create a fierce contradict, which turned out to be too experimental to be understood by his contemporaries. However, the true merits in his work are not belied, the skills are appreciated widely nowadays.
To sum up, the ability to be understood by most people is of great importance for commercial films, however, it does not always hold true when it comes to novels and paintings. After close examination of the claim, we can conclude that the idea that the speaker asserts is tenuous in certain perspectives.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 191, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...a certain group of people, or a certain period of time, there are plenty of methods for them t...
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Line 5, column 307, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...te an atmosphere they are to establish. Some of the methods, such as the applying of memori...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, thus, well, while, for example, such as, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2461.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 497.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95171026157 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83285222325 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525150905433 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 785.7 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.0032173633 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.19047619 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90476190476 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219200933653 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0652709314985 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520498215108 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126575724498 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0577989203044 0.0667264976115 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.