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.
Art is said to be the mirror of society. The movies, poems, books that are written and shown to the masses, come from a select few of them. The statement proposes that for an artwork to have value, it must be understandable. I partially agree with it, with some points of my own to make.
Art forms like movies and books may be made, keeping either common masses or a small target audience in mind. Also, they are made in different genres- Romance, Romantic Comedy, Horror, Science fiction, Thriller, etc. There may be different age groups in the mind of their makers. They may be written for the youth, the married, the old, and the single people in society. Different factors like these affect the process of creation. For any art to be a success there is one important factor- they must touch the heart of the audience. For example, movies like "Titanic", or "The Shawshank Redemption" are so successful because they tend to elicit strong emotions in people. On the other hand, a science fiction movie like "Interstellar" has also been immensely successful all around the world because it has been made with great content and impressive knowledge of science; therefore even if the subject of the movie- black holes, time travel- is very difficult to grasp for the common man, it keeps the viewer engaged with its excellent development. This is the reason why novels like "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and "The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare" by G. K. Chesterton get so famous, despite being so different in content and understandability- the former about a naught little boy and his adventures, the latter a story involving the concepts of anarchy and surrealism.
Moreover, we also must know how we are determining merit- Is it the amount of revenues collected, or the awards a writer or a movie wins, or perhaps the impression the piece of art leaves on peoples' minds? To understand this, take as example, movies-there are some that go highly unappreciated, but collect massive revenue; some are highly praised by critics, but do poorly in the market. Nevertheless, both may be said to have merit, depending on one's point of view. Poems like nursery rhymes are very popular with children and taught to them all over the world. They are too simple and yet they leave a mark on our childhood brain. Then we read poems from writers like Robert Frost, which may be deep in meaning, but they still impress us. The reason is simple- both kinds of poems affect emotions- one, of a little child, and other, of a grown up and intelligent person.
To conclude, it can be said that while some art forms may be easy to understand, and some convoluted, whether they have merit or not depends on their content and their target audience where the meaning of merit is taken to be the emotional value of an artwork.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, then, therefore, while, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2384.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 493.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83569979716 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91372091193 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561866125761 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 728.1 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.4815607127 60.3974514979 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.363636364 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4090909091 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95454545455 5.21951772744 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229902556124 0.243740707755 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0676222244886 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662978479436 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144536106286 0.150359130593 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0113169880112 0.0667264976115 17% => 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: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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