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.
Does any work of art must be understandable to have merit, as this statement suggests? I agree that in many cases, having merit means it is sort of an agreement among people asserting that it does provide significant inspirations to people. As the major consumer of art works are not the artists but the viewers, it is likely to say the art work should be understandable so that it will be easier to be respected from people.
On the other hand, since art can be interpreted in various ways, there are minor but resilient supporters who endorse and understand intricate art works and asserts that it has artistic merit. For example, independent film usually contains difficult messages and express it in unoriginal ways which requires audiences to have enduring effort to understand the message. As a result, it does have less public interests, however, it doesn’t mean that it has no merits. There are still efforts to support and sustain this kind of film genre because some believe that its abnormal characteristics might give inspirations to people’s creativity. Also, it is likely to be supported by people whose wills are to raise the topics to public interests since those issues are usually neglected from people.
On the one hand, it is still important to be understood by majority of people, because if any art works have less interests due to its intricacy, then it will be forgotten in a fast pace. Let’s say there is a painting just only painted in black color but the title is called ‘happiness’. Will it be easily understood in normal sense? Black is generally evocative of dark, miserable, dreary concept. Unless it provides persuasive explanation why black was happiness to the painter, it will fade away from people’s memory and eventually even lose its potential artistic value. However, it might be reasonable to say that its potential value is unfortunately not discovered yet by people. Maybe in the next generation, this kind of intricate art work could be highly valued. This was the same thing happened to Van Gogh, one of the most important painter among art history. His painting technique using strong strokes with flamboyant colors was not attractable to public at his lifetime. After he died, his unappreciated painting style was starting to obtain public interest but unfortunately the one who already used that style for the whole lifetime was already gone. Like this, there might be some art works that is neglected currently because it is ahead of time. Thus, it is too early to conclude that any art works must be understandable to majority of people in order to have merit.
In sum, I agree that any art work should be acknowledgeable in order to have merit since it can aggregate people’s consensus that it is worth it to respect its meaning and expression it’s using. However, whether being understandable is a mandatory thing must be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 142, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'an' after a classification term. Use simply 'sort of'.
Suggestion: sort of
...in many cases, having merit means it is sort of an agreement among people asserting that i...
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Line 5, column 111, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun interests is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...f people, because if any art works have less interests due to its intricacy, then it...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, then, thus, for example, kind of, sort of, as a result, in many cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2466.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 491.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02240325866 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70728369723 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99796195652 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496945010183 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 788.4 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8270418923 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.090909091 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3181818182 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.81818181818 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.366806962409 0.243740707755 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111257169055 0.0831039109588 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102936428852 0.0758088955206 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252985065935 0.150359130593 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.048517348684 0.0667264976115 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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