Issue131 文艺之于社会 [Spining Sep]第二次作业 大家拍我的例子！

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TOPIC: ISSUE131 - "The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."
WORDS: 698          TIME: 0:52:20          DATE: 2006-8-16

大致提纲：
1．        开门见山，同意作者观点
2．        小说的例子
3．        戏剧的例子
4．        摆出一种反驳观点
5．        驳斥其合理性
6．        总结驳斥以及作全文总结

The speaker asserts that the arts reveal society’s hidden idea and impulses and I cannot agree more on this point view. In my view of art and history, it is the truth that art greatly influence every aspects of society including revealing hidden ideas and impulses in many forms: literature, music, painting, etc.. People express there ideas of the society through contemporaneous art works and the thoughts in those works did affect progresses of the society.

Literature is one of the art form that carries hidden ideas and impulses of a society. The story in Uncle Tom's Cabin is very simple, but it crystallized militant antislavery viewpoint of the North and therefore an important factor in precipitating the American Civil War. It is said that the war would be postpone by at least 20 years without this novel. However, this novel revealed hidden ideas and impulses the war. On of the black humor works Catch-22 written in 1961 was another example. The fiction uses Yossarian's mouth to express the idea that "there must a catch somewhere"--on one can escape from the insane war no matter he is crazy or not. This also puzzles the beat generation who were born during the war and shown their thought of the society's disorder and irrationality.

Drama is another way to reveal the hidden ideas and impulses of a society. The Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles is another good example.  The dramatis hero Oedipus could never flee from the fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. By designing a sharp conflict between the strong-minded hero and inevitable fate, the drama express not only the dramatist but also the people in the same age's consideration of individual's willing against the whole society which is gradually to be known an urgent question under the process of Greek democracy. As in Shakespeare's Hamlet, the prince alternates between rash action and delay that disgust him and the two thoughts finally led him to an inescapable death. The play reflects people in renaissance's pursuit of humanism that emphasize the dignity and worth of individuals. Just escape from the shackle of religion, people tended to get more liberty and rational thoughts. In above cases, drama successfully revealed the hidden ideas of people in that age and so indirectly impulses the society into new ages.

Some may argues that arts are always only possible to show the idea and impulse of the artist himself instead of the society. They are more like a mirror that can reflect the mind of the its creator and express their own opinion about the society and hope to be accepted by others. The opponents may also make a large list which contains Vincent Van Gogh, Mozart and so many artist that their works can not be accepted in their age.

However, in my opinion, the hidden ideas and impulses are not limited to those that coherent the mainstream of that age. Each individual can have different thoughts, and the society is only a huge assemble of people's minds. Among them, artists are the lucky ones who can express their ideas and impulse to society in arts. And the history proves that many arts that not well accepted in their age can be found valuable in revealing hidden ideas and impulses of the society after years. Though Van Gogh sold few of his paintings when he was alive, but people discovered hidden passion and enthusiasm in his works. His painting can be sold at hundreds millions of dollars today and many researchers are deciphering the hidden ideas he want to express and impulse it brought to the society.

Though arts are created by artists themselves, the shadow of the time can be seen from them obviously. Artists are only those who record them though they may not realize that they revealed the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of the society. Novels, dramas, paintings and music are all the same, though express in different forms of arts. By studying these arts we can see what were people thinking and doing in a certain age. And by creating arts ourselves, we can express the hidden ideas and impulses of today's society to our successors.

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The speaker asserts that the arts reveal society’s hidden idea and impulses and I cannot agree more on this point view. In my view of art and history, it is the truth that art greatly influence every aspects of society including revealing hidden ideas and impulses in many forms: literature, music, painting, etc.. People express there ideas of the society through contemporaneous art works and the thoughts in those works did affect progresses of the society.

Literature is one of the art form that carries hidden ideas and impulses of a society. The story in Uncle Tom's Cabin is very simple, but it crystallized militant antislavery viewpoint of the North and therefore an important factor in precipitating the American Civil War. It (is去掉） said that the war would be postpone by at least 20 years without this novel. However, this novel revealed hidden ideas and impulses the war. 是什么ideas 和inpulses?On of the black humor works Catch-22 written in 1961 was another example. The fiction uses Yossarian's mouth to express the idea that "there must a catch somewhere"--(on这里为什么要加上on?) one can escape from the insane war no matter he is crazy or not. This also puzzles the beat generation who were born during the war and shown their thought of the society's disorder and irrationality.

Drama is another way to reveal the hidden ideas and impulses of a society. The Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles is another good example.  The dramatis hero Oedipus could never flee from the fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. By designing a sharp conflict between the strong-minded hero and inevitable fate, the drama express not only the dramatist but also the people in the same age's consideration of individual's willing against the whole society which is gradually to be known an urgent question under the process of Greek democracy. As in Shakespeare's Hamlet, the prince alternates between rash action and delay that disgust him and the two thoughts finally led him to an inescapable death. The play reflects people in renaissance's pursuit of humanism that emphasize the dignity and worth of individuals. Just escape from the shackle of religion, people tended to get more liberty and rational thoughts. In above cases, drama successfully revealed the hidden ideas of people in that age and so indirectly impulses the society into new ages.

Some may argues that arts are always only possible to show the idea and impulse of the artist himself instead of the society. They are more like a mirror that can reflect the mind of the its creator and express their own opinion about the society and hope to be accepted by others. The opponents may also make a large list which contains Vincent Van Gogh, Mozart and so many artist that their works can not be accepted in their age. 这段和ideas&impulses似乎没有联系

However, in my opinion, the hidden ideas and impulses are not limited to those that coherent the mainstream of that age. Each individual can have different thoughts, and the society is only a huge assemble of people's minds. Among them, artists are the lucky ones who can express their ideas and impulse to society in arts. And the history proves that many arts that not well accepted in their age can be found valuable in revealing hidden ideas and impulses of the society after years. Though Van Gogh sold few of his paintings when he was alive, but people discovered hidden passion and enthusiasm in his works. His painting can be sold at hundreds millions of dollars today and many researchers are deciphering the hidden ideas he want to express and impulse it brought to the society.

Though arts are created by artists themselves, the shadow of the time can be seen from them obviously. Artists are only those who record them though they may not realize that they revealed the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of the society. Novels, dramas, paintings and music are all the same, though express in different forms of arts. By studying these arts we can see what were people thinking and doing in a certain age. And by creating arts ourselves, we can express the hidden ideas and impulses of today's society to our successors. 结尾可以简略一点

这篇文章例子丰富，值得赞赏。
但是所举的作品究竟怎么隐含了hidden ideas and impulses of society没有说明清楚，特别是Van Gogh的例子。
结构需要调整一下。

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改正了一些错误，结构有待调整~

TOPIC: ISSUE131 - "The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."
WORDS: 698          TIME: 0:52:20          DATE: 2006-8-16

大致提纲：
1．        开门见山，同意作者观点
2．        小说的例子
3．        戏剧的例子
4．        摆出一种反驳观点
5．        驳斥其合理性
6．        总结驳斥以及作全文总结

After the revise of Zhangdingyou

The speaker asserts that the arts reveal society’s hidden ideas and impulses and I cannot agree more on this viewpoint. In my view of art and history, it is the truth that arts greatly influence every aspects of a society by means of revealing hidden ideas and impulses in many forms: literature, music, painting, etc.. People expressed their ideas of the society through contemporaneous art works and the thoughts in those works did affect progresses of the society.

Literature is one of the art forms that carries hidden ideas and impulses of a society. The story in Uncle Tom's Cabin is very simple, but it crystallized militant antislavery viewpoint of the North and therefore an important factor in precipitating the American Civil War. It is said that, without this novel, the war would be postponed for at least 20 years. However, this novel revealed hidden ideas and impulses the war. One of the black humor works Catch-22 written in 1961 was another example. The fiction uses Yossarian's mouth to express the idea that "there must a catch somewhere"--no one can escape from the insane war no matter he or she is crazy or not. This affliction also puzzles the beat generation who were born after the novel in some measure of revealing their mind of war and the shown their thought of the society's disorder and irrationality.

Drama is another way to reveal the hidden ideas and impulses of a society. The Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles is one good example.  The dramatis hero Oedipus could never flee from the fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. By designing a sharp conflict between the strong-minded hero and inevitable fate, the drama expresses not only the dramatist but also the people in the same age's consideration of individual's willing against the whole society which is gradually to be known as an urgent question under the process of Greek democracy. As in Shakespeare's Hamlet, the prince alternates between rash action and delay that disgust him and the two thoughts finally led him to an inescapable death. The play reflects people in renaissance's pursuit of humanism which emphasize the dignity and worth of individuals. Just escape from the shackle of religion, people tended to get more liberty and rational thoughts. In above cases, drama successfully revealed the hidden ideas of people of that age and indirectly impulsed the society into new ages.

Some may argue that arts are always only possible to show the idea and impulse of the artist himself instead of the society. They are more like a mirror that can reflect the minds of their creators and express their own opinions about the society and hope to be accepted by others. The opponents may also make a large list which contains Vincent Van Gogh, Mozart and so many other artists that their works can not be accepted in their age.

However, in my opinion, the hidden ideas and impulses are not limited to those that are coherent the mainstream of that age. Each individual can have different thoughts, and the society is only a huge aggregate of people's minds. Among them, artists are the lucky ones who can express their ideas and impulses of society in arts. And the history proves that many arts that are not well accepted in their age can be found valuable in revealing hidden ideas and impulses of the society after years. Though Van Gogh sold few of his paintings when he was alive, today’s people discovered hidden passion and enthusiasm in his works. His paintings can be sold at hundreds of millions of dollars today and many researchers are deciphering the hidden ideas he wanted to express and the impulse it brought to the society.

Though arts are created by artists themselves, the shadow of the time can be seen from them obviously. Artists are only those who record them though they may not realize that they revealed the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of the society. Novels, dramas, paintings and music are all the same, though express in different forms of arts. By studying these arts we can see what people were thinking and doing in a certain age. And by creating arts ourselves, we can express the hidden ideas and impulses of today's society to our successors.