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 Chevalier’s 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
In the given paragraph Chevalier described as an important sophisticated person from history and the passage tries to argue that in some ways, However, the lecturer championed the Chevalier statements by providing some evidence from her side.
Firstly, Chevalier met many important European kings and writers in the 18th century period and some critics raised doubt on Chevalier's memoir. Passages raising the doubt about the reality and stating it sham that everything was made up to pretend, and show life more exciting and fame than really it was. The example of money borrowing is illustrated here that the chevalier was supposed to be a rich person but he took a loan from some people even though he showed wealth and stayed in Switzerland.
But, the lecturer argues that with point explaining that it maybe because he was in the business of selling property and borrowed some money unless he received from his business.
Secondly, the passage doubts the conversation with Voltaire that no one can remember exact phrases from a long period back. However, Chevalier used to write every night after meeting with Voltaire, and the people who stayed with him supported this evidence too said by the lecturer.
Moreover, critics questioned the memoir prison escape incidence with it is impossible to run out of prison and they claim this story is ersatz to make reading more enjoyable and thrilling. On the other hand, the lecturer provides support to the incident of jail escape researchers found renovation of prison roof at that time. There is no bribing incident reported anywhere in that time about the Chevalier.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Did you mean 'shams'?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1356.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0977443609 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56405309061 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612781954887 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 422.1 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 42.121847063 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.6 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.6 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178960425149 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644143511111 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060382158283 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0869280301333 0.162205337803 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0649976317381 0.0443174109184 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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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.