Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.
For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money.
Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier.
Critics have also questioned the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevaliers jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.
The readimg and lecture are both about Chevalier de Seinglat's memoir and his controversial figure. The author of the reading mentioned that some critics assterted that chevailer misrepresented events from his life in the memoir to show that his life was thirlling and alluring than it was in real life. The lecture challenges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that everything he mentioned in his memoir could be accurate and reliable.
To begin with, the author argues that when living in Switzerland, he was affluent, and he was famous for spending his wealth on partied and gambling. However, evidence shows that the Chevalier lent money from a Swiss merchant. The specific argument is challenged by the lecturer that you have to sell some to get the money.
Secondly, the writer suggests that the accuracy of conversations were doubtful that the Chevalier and the famous write Voltaire met in person and conversed. In the article , it is said that it is impossible to jot down all the conversations precisely because the conversations were written years after they conversed. He also stated that, it cant be possible to remember pharses from the conversations that were held years ago. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that the Chevalier wrote down all the conversations with the famous writer and kept them for years and composed them in his memoir.
Finally, the author posits that, Chevalier escaped the jail in Itlay by making a hole in the ceiling and escaping from the roof. Moreover, is is stated in the article that Chevalier must have bribed the jailers to help him escape the prison.In contrast the lecture's position is that the jailers had alot more powerful friends but they were never able to escape. Bribery would'nt work in the jail with other jailers. He notes that the ceiling of the jail was previously broken by the jailers to make their escape but it was never repaired.
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...e jailers had alot more powerful friends but they were never able to escape. Brib...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1603.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91717791411 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62985918267 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509202453988 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 488.7 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.1322468377 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.866666667 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7333333333 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.06666666667 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289821011787 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0917876294069 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938285032406 0.0662205650399 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171799572102 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113655622034 0.0443174109184 256% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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