The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society.
The author claims that concealed parts of a society can be uncovered by investigating the arts. In my view, I agree with that art, in some aspects, reflects the thoughts and wills of people; however, we cannot ignore the multi-aspects of the arts. In other words, arts can have other purposes except reflecting the ideas and thought.
To begin with, the arts, in many ways, reflects the will and the desire of human beings. First, from the personal aspect, artists can propagate their thoughts which are suppressed by the despotic authority. Compared to the blunt and obvious confrontation with their authorities, representing the disaffection for the government by literature pieces is milder and safer. As we can see in the art pieces, we can often found the implicit meaning under poems, novels, or songs; from the suggestion for the government, to the rebellious thought to subvert the tyranny.
Secondly, from the social aspect, we can recover the features in the contemporary society by researching on the artistic works. The artistic works not only represent the ethos and the value of the society but the things that the people long for. For example, in the period of war, people suffered from alienation of their family; therefore, songs and literatures usually related to family, friends, kinship, and the hope of peace. In the peaceful time, the art work usually related to love and joy, which experienced by the people in the cornucopia.
However, we cannot ignore other purposes of arts. The arts can be a tool of showing power. To illustrate, art collector may utilize their possession of art to show their social status. For these kinds of people, we cannot claim that their artistic work can represent their hidden impulse. On the other hand, arts can also be a political tool to acquire power. In the ancient time, peripheral country sometime tribute their art works to show the loyalty for the great power, and thus preventing war. Also, a talented artistic can work for the kings or patricians to gain lucre or power. In these situations, the arts not necessarily reveal the concealed thought and will of people but merely works that cater with the need of authorities.
To sum up, the arts can be a way to understand the hidden thoughts of a society. But, in the same time, we cannot preclude other possible meaning of the arts.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.5258426966 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1963.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 398.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93216080402 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64021578195 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.48743718593 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 704.065955056 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 4.38483146067 388% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3051849829 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.4761904762 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9523809524 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38095238095 5.21951772744 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.123823058585 0.243740707755 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0425378656502 0.0831039109588 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0310056132802 0.0758088955206 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0751509691357 0.150359130593 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0215497156775 0.0667264976115 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.1392134831 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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