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.
What is art? Art, in addition to being a creative expression of beauty, is also a method of communication and passing on the culture. Thus, some people argue that for any work of art to have value, it must be understandable to the majority. I fundamentally disagree with the claim because there are many invaluable artistic works that are not understood by most common people.
First, an artist might be ahead of time and produce works which are not appreciated and acknowledged by contemporary people. Consider Vincent Van Gogh, a prominent Dutch post-impression painter, whose works, such as the Starry Night, one of the most recognized paintings in the history of western culture, were ignored when he was alive. However, nowadays people appreciate the impressive strokes and colors used in his painting. Thus, artwork with significant merit could be remain neglected for a long period because its producer is such a pioneer who cannot be accepted by most people in his time.
Moreover, the artistic beauty of a good piece of work could be appealing even though people do not truly understand its meaning. For example, music is a form of art that can prevail all around the world regardless of language barrier. Though the lyrics are in different language, the synthesis of sound of various musical instruments can create an extremely mellifluous tune attracting people and surpassing the fact that they do not understand its meaning. Art is a kind of dialogue, although we are not literally having a conversation with the creator, we can feel related to the emotion and passion conveyed in it and learn how to respond to it and question it, despite enormous cultural barriers.
Finally, sometimes the merits of an artwork can only be judged by selected group of people. For instance, very few people can comprehend Shakespeare’s works in its original form; yet it is truly known work of merit. This is because people need a level of literary skills and knowledge to be able to interpret its language style, which makes it higher than the ordinary literary works and sets it apart. For that matter, the very fact that most people cannot understand some artworks grants them merit, as it needs skills to do so.
In conclusion, be it being understood by most people or not, the value of artworks would not be overshadowed. Their merits can be acclaimed, even just by a selected group, because they are ground-breaking and are able to represent ideas beyond culture barrier.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, so, thus, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => 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: 2062.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 413.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99273607748 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86497265067 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549636803874 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 704.065955056 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0848106457 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.1 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.65 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.3 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321649966518 0.243740707755 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.099171422521 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806349247529 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18732352344 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0786510485826 0.0667264976115 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.