【Flyer杀G作文组】1.30-Issue131-By 师大菜菜

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131. "The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."
提纲:
1.我承认,the arts确实可以反应一个社会的秘密的想法和冲动
2.但是，the arts并不仅仅是反应一个社会的秘密的想法和冲动。同时，也反应了这个社会的主流思想
3.要想完全了解一个社会，仅仅依靠艺术是不够的，我们必须注意其他因素

Art consisting of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects are created for people to look at and admire or arouse people’s common feeling. Does it reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society? The speaker thinks so. However, in my opinion, arts reveal not only hidden ideas and impulses of a society, but also the mainstream attitudes in the society. What’s more, if one wants to entirely understand a society, it is not enough only through study the arts of the society.

To begin with, admittedly, arts can reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society. The arts mirror
our world and emotions, since they are extracted from the personal experience and feelings of artists. Balzac once said ‘novels are secret history of a nation’. The saying is used constantly to point out that literatures can reveal the daily life of common people which traditional history literatures usually overlook. For example,
reading the novel Bride and Prejudice, you may realize that before the social status of women being raised, finding a suitable husband had a more important meaning than it has today. Through this book, we can learn many ideas of common people in that age. In general, literatures record vividly
particular instances which can help us understand the hidden ideas of a particular society.


I do not deny that arts reveal the hidden ideas and impulses of a society, but the mainstream attitudes and ethics take up a larger part of them. Some popular phrases in nowadays, such as the environment protection and sustainable development, have also been proclaimed in the arts. We can see no further than the popular 3D film Avatar expresses the belief that overemphasizing the development of economy will inevitably bring the nature’s revenge. Another example is the Statue of Liberty that was seen as a symbol of freedom. As a gift from the people of France to America, the Statue of Liberty was built to commemorate the hundredth year of American Independence and to celebrate the friendship of our two great republics. Obviously, what the statue reflects is not hidden, but public and social mainstream idea.


However, in order to study a society entirely, it is insufficient to learn its arts. Because the arts are summaries of people’s experience and emotions, which sometimes are subjective and even extreme. Take American present commercial films for example, these films are filled with individualistic heroism such as the Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and so on. We can imagine that if one wants to learn American society by watching these films, what he or she concludes may be that the people of America is a group of people who focus on how to save the world every day. If we want to understand American society and American people, what is needed is studying the common people of America who almost are not the leading roles of these films. What’s more, literatures usually concern only with expressing emotions while introducing a little of knowledge about the economy and law which are usually treated as background of a story. However, the knowledge of the economy and law of a society is necessary to study a society. Without awareness of the developed economy, advanced law systems and political systems of America, we cannot distinguish her from developing countries only by her literatures.
(这段感觉例子好白痴呀。唉，谁叫咱只看过一些电影， 还想思考中…)

To sum up, we must realize that arts are important to reveal not only the hidden ideas and impulses of the society but also the mainstream ones. However, arts are not panacea. We cannot simply judge a society only from its arts.

唉，拍得同学，使劲拍。对于错误，宁可错杀一千，也别错过一个。
对于，名词的单复数，加冠词a/the的含义，得好好研究一下。The arts 为什么要加the呢？拍我的同学，能给我解释一下不。