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.
To decide what mostly qualify the merit of an artwork, the speaker indicates that the major factor is whether most people can understand the work. However, the speaker seems to have ignored the extent to which a definition of merit can vary. Namely if an artist regard the ability to profit as major merit of his work, then the importance of understandability by mass is obvious, on the contrary, the certain significance declines if the artist addresses a more spiritual expression as virtue.
Admittedly，when in the form of popular culture, artwork like comics have to be accessible to majorities , since whose value is closely associated to how far-reaching the work is. The second decade of 21 century has witnessed the compelling success of superhero comics, by examining the feature of such stories, we can safely draw the conclusion that it is the easy plots and vivid characters that matters. Since the production of comics centrally fixes on one goal, which is making considerable profits, an obscure work limited to small portion of readers will definitely fail the job. In another word, if one considers merit of an artwork narrowly as commercial success, then being understandable becomes a necessity.
However, the notion that artwork must follow the pattern as understandable to masses is constrained in the field of popular culture, which surely suffers disputes when referring to the film industry. Besides making money, films can also serve a perfect role as tools to express private emotions in the right hand. One of the greatest directors in the history, Andrei Tarkovsky was obsessed with his childhood and religion issues, and intended to make his movies in an arcane and symbolic way. Some settings in the films seem to have nothing to do with the obvious plot, though actually they usually have deeper meanings which is difficult for common audience to discern. The aesthetic value of Tarkovsky’s work suffered nothing from its nature of esoteric, on the contrary, they reflect a sensitive expression of human emotion and is beloved by many.
The conclusion holds true as well when it comes to literature like novels and poems. Although ambiguous metaphors and complexing structures of sentences some writers in favor of can be demanding for normal readers, reading such work become somewhat a n intriguing intelligent challenge for professional readers. The masterpiece of James Joyce, Ulysses, is extremely prolix and whose story isn’t based on a logical sense but an inspiration. Additionally, the book is replete with metaphor about Ireland history, making it even harder for a foreign reader to understand. However, despite all these obstacles, Ulysses might be the greatest novel in 20th century, from which a trained reader can find not only the author’s genius ideas about art and life, but also a salute to the origin of literature, Odyssey by Greek poet Homer.
To sum up, the speaker’s assertion seems true considering certain form of art who is aimed to achieve market success. However, the merit of art does not limited in its ability to make money, when serving as a tool of the artists to express themselves, it is unnecessary to fulfill the requirement of being understandable.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 243, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Namely,
...o which a definition of merit can vary. Namely if an artist regard the ability to prof...
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Line 1, column 495, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... a more spiritual expression as virtue. Admittedly，when in the form of popular c...
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Line 3, column 104, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...mics have to be accessible to majorities , since whose value is closely associated...
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Line 3, column 204, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'century' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'centuries'.
Suggestion: centuries
...ng the work is. The second decade of 21 century has witnessed the compelling success of...
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Line 7, column 250, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ders, reading such work become somewhat a n intriguing intelligent challenge for ...
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Line 9, column 159, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'limit'
Suggestion: limit
...ess. However, the merit of art does not limited in its ability to make money, when serv...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, however, if, second, so, then, well, as to, on the contrary, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2727.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 526.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18441064639 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93626449108 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 299.0 215.323595506 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568441064639 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 864.9 704.065955056 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.1818300432 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.526315789 118.986275619 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6842105263 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26315789474 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => 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: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207007417375 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0605909927491 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438788886146 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109540463554 0.150359130593 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0346822839786 0.0667264976115 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.23 8.38706741573 122% => OK
difficult_words: 175.0 100.480337079 174% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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