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Imaginative works such as novels, plays, films, fairy tales, and legends present a more accurate and meaningful picture of human
Imaginative works such as novels, plays, films, fairy tales, and legends present a more accurate and meaningful picture of human
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2020-03-31
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Imaginative works such as novels, plays, films, fairy tales, and legends present a more accurate and meaningful picture of human experience than do factual accounts. Because the creators of fiction shape and focus reality rather than report on it literally, their creations have a more lasting significance.
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Do imaginative works hold more lasting significance than factual accounts, for the reasons the speaker cites? To some extent the speaker overstates fiction’s comparative significance. On balance, however, I tend to agree with the speaker. By recounting various dimensions of the human experience, a fictional work can add meaning to and appreciation of the times in which the works is set. Even where a fictional work amounts to pure fantasy, with no historical context, it can still hold more lasting significance than a factual account. Examples from literature and film serve to illustrate these points.
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By informing us about underlying political, economic, and social conditions, factual accounts provide a frame of reference needed to understand and appreciate imaginative works. Fact is the basis for fiction, and fiction is no substitute for fact. I would also concede that factual accounts are more "accurate" than fictional ones - insofar as they are more objective. But this does not mean that factual accounts provide a "more meaningful picture of the human experience". To the contrary, only imaginative works can bring a historical period alive - by way of creative tools such as imagery and point of view. And, only imaginative works can provide meaning to historical events- through the use of devices such as symbolism and metaphor.
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Twain’s novels afford us a sense of how nineteenth-century Missouri would have appeared through the eyes of 10-year-old boys. Melville’s "Billy Budd" gives the reader certain insights into what travel on the high seas might have been like in earlier centuries, through the eyes of a crewman. And the epic poems "Beowulf" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" provide glimpses of the relationships between warriors and their kings in medieval times. Bare facts about these historical eras are easily forgettable, whereas creative stories and portrayals such as the ones mentioned above can be quite memorable indeed. In other words, what truly lasts are our impressions of what life must have been like in certain places, at certain times, and under certain conditions. Only imaginative works can provide such lasting impressions.
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Consider four of our most memorable and influential films: Citizen Kane, Schindler’s List, The Wizard of Oz, and Star Wars. Did Welles’ fictional portrayal of publisher William Randolph Hearst or Spielberg’s fictional portrayal of a Jewish sympathizer during the holocaust provide a more " meaningful picture of human experience" than a history textbook? Did these accounts help give "shape and focus" to reality more so than newsreels alone could? If so, will these works hold more "lasting significance" than bare factual accounts of the same persons and events? I think anyone who has seen these films would answer all three questions affirmatively. Or consider The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars. Both films, and the novels from which they were adapted, are pure fantasy. Yet both them with symbolism and metaphor relating to life’s journey, the human spirit, and our hopes, dreams, and ambitions- in short, the human experience. Therein lies the reason for their lasting significance.
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Yet only through the exercise of artistic license can we convey human experience in all its dimensions, and thereby fully understand and appreciate life in other times and places. And it is human experience, and not bare facts and figures, that endures in our minds and souls.
[A] Examples of important films underscore the point that creative accounts of the human experience hold more lasting significance than bare factual accounts.
[B] It is hardly surprisingly to say the imagination can give a full story of some interesting historical events.
[C] Most fictional works rely on historical settings for plot, thematic, and character development.
[D] Imaginative works hold more lasting significance than factual accounts.
[E] Without prior factual accounts fictional works set in historical periods lose much of their meaning.
[F] Several examples from literature serve to illustrate imagination can provide meaning to historical events.
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答案
C
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