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Do artistic endeavours enhance our understanding of reality or provide escape from reality?



Anouar 12 / 35  
Sep 5, 2014   #1
Assignment:

Do artistic endeavours such as music painting, literature and drama enhance our understanding of reality or provide escape from reality?

Essay:

Artistic endeavours such as literature, painting and comedy provide a realistic view toward the world, its dreams, its concerns, its ambitions and its aspiration.

Throughout history, literature's works are infinite creation that derive their value from reality. American classic literature is marked by An-In depth analysis of reality during 1920's great depression. The grapes of wrath tell the story of an immigrant family from Oklahoma which is the victim of dust bowel obliged to leave to California "The promised Island". Out the family's trials and its repeated collisions against the hard realities of an American divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely tragic and stirs human dignity. The novel yet is a portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of women's stoical strength and of man's fierce reaction to injustice. This account of Great Depression's Era gives American a wise understanding of reality to raise sensibility and to sustain impact on people's morality. The Plague by Albert Camus is a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind from the doctors, to vacationers to fugitives, confronts death. The Plague is a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in Algeria, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.In a word, literature "shapes the geography of conscience "as Don Delillo Quoted.

Painting also describes reality with simplistic yet deep way. Drawing, Water works, Graphic works illustrate human's tragedy. Van Gogh early painting as "The potato eaters", "A pair of shoes", "The sewer" were inspired only by expressive stabs at effectively depicting working-class in realistic way. Van Gogh numerous painting portrays his obsession to deliver real-life voice bitterly with muted and dark colours which stress on the melancholic aspect of life. Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People" depicts human's aspiring to emancipation. Another realistic aspect of human's eternal struggle to achieve freedom: Revolution. By commemorating July 1830 Revolution, Marianne's figure, portrayed as a women personifying Liberty, is viewed now as the symbol of France, free France. As a conclusion, Trough these painting, Van Gogh brought real life as a soil for for performing by illustrating miserable life. When it comes to Delacroix, He gives to people a clear understanding of the present through past's upraising.

Comedy also takes part of human's. Moliere's unique style to criticize 17th Century Masculine society, through "The School Of Wives", brought people to think and capture the reality from an objective perspective, especially through Arnolphe personality who fear from the intellect woman as many a man in Europe in that Era that's why he try his best to encapsulate her out of real world. The play is bold enough to require thought process. Implicitly, the play aims to correct man's prospect of woman, power and society. So we can conclude that Comedy enhance our understanding of life's notions.

To capitalize, Art is a source of awakening as its roots come from life. It's human's best intuition to face reality ,analyze it and then understand it .

vangiespen - / 4077  
Sep 5, 2014   #2
Artistic endeavours such as literature, painting and comedy provide a realistic view toward the world, its dreams, its concerns, its ambitions and its aspiration.

- You can skip this paragraph totally and jump to the next paragraph as your introduction. This comment does not contain any provide any information about your stance on the essay prompt. Unless this is supposed to be the title for the essay and you included it in your post?

While you wrote a solid essay that explains many of the artistic accomplishments over time, you failed to provide your own point of view for the essay. You did not explain why you believe that artistic endeavors "enhance our understanding of reality or provide escape from reality?". While you mentioned good and critical descriptions of the art works and literary accomplishments, you lacked a personal insight into the matter that the essay was asking for.

You needed to indicate something solid to represent your opinion on the matter a statement such as "Art imitates life. That is the reason why paintings and various artistic endeavors enhance our understanding of reality." Or, " The art of comedy allows people to see the lighter side of a serious situation, that is why it provides a person with an escape from reality". You could build further upon those two comments in order to represent your solid idea on the question being asked.

I suggest that you revise your paper to include your personal opinion on the matter in order to successfully answer the essay prompt. While you provided good information about the literary and artistic greats of the past era, it does not carry any weight unless you present your opinion on the matter using those samples.
OP Anouar 12 / 35  
Sep 5, 2014   #3
Sure it's not an introduction excuse me...
As for my personal view how can I include it ? In any part of the essay?
After responding please grade my essay out of 12 and thanks!!!
vangiespen - / 4077  
Sep 5, 2014   #4
You can include your personal point of view in the introduction of the essay. Make it the last part of the paragraph so that your point of view becomes the thesis statement of the essay. You can then continue to build on your point of view using the reasons that you stated in the succeeding paragraphs. Always remember to start your paragraphs with the word I ( I believe, I can say that,My point of view is, etc.) or "In my opinion...", "In my point of view" and variations thereof. That way you always make it clear that you are presenting a personal opinion to the reader. The current grade of this essay in my opinion, would be an 8 based upon the reasons that I indicated in my previous post. I hope to look forward to reading the revised essay :-) Good luck!


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