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发表于 2010-7-19 22:59:11
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本帖最后由 agnes2010 于 2010-7-20 23:25 编辑
这篇文章写的超级混乱... 总的来说还是觉得自己没有搞清ideas and impulses of a society 是什么意思~ impulse怎么理解啊~
帮我看看我的思路吧... 感觉跑题了
TOPIC: ISSUE131 - "The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."
WORDS: 447
TIME: 02:00:00
DATE: 2010-7-20 23:12:37
The speaker claims that the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society can be unveiled by the arts such as painting, music and literature. From my perspective, arts do transmit not only the personal conception of the artists but also some ideas and impulses in a society. Yet, art alone can not fully reveal the condition of a whole society.
It is said that all arts grow out of life and artists always draw the materials of their works chiefly from ordinary social life. Take literature as an example, hundreds of masterpieces are the reflection of real life in our society. In the west, Shakespeare's attempt to reproduce the manifold image of life leads to a peculiar combination characteristic of his drama, allowing us to see extremely different characters varying from a royal princess( like Hemlet) to an ordinary merchant ( like Sharlevox). In the Qing Dynasty, after experiencing bitterness of witnessing the depression of his family to the fullest extent, Cao Xueqin wrote down the famous epic-A Dream in Red Mansions, featuring the story of the rise and decline of four big families. Focusing on the ordinary life in the society, writers from different countries can all produce high-quality masterpieces which can reflect the condition of the society and also set up resonance among readers.
Besides showing the current condition of the society and the ideas of its people, arts can also expose the social changes, leaving people the memory of their passing life and the changes taking place around them. For example, during the past eight years, in order to record the growth of the 2010 Shanghai Expo, Lu Jie, a photographer has taken nearly 200,000 photos of the Expo park. In his first photo of this series, people can only see factories and houses on the site. When reviewing those pictures, people can be recalled of the passing days and the construction of Expo programe as well. Moreover, paintings and books can also record the social developments, which enable people be informed of the past and also have a blueprint of the future society.
Admittedly, since the arts are always the products of artists, the artists' subjective state of mind is more likely to be showed on the works. Considering this, the arts alone can not fully express the social ideas and trends. People can gather the economic information from the stock market through the figures, helping them to know which industry develops well at present, while they can also grab political information from the presidents' speech, knowing what policy will be taken into practice next. Compared with the arts, the implicit record of the society, political policies and economic conditions can also serves as a reflection.
In sum, there’s no denying that the arts can unveil the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society in different styles from paintings to literature. However, besides the arts, people can also gather information of society from our real life, which sometimes proves to be a more effective and direct way to learn about the society. |
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