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gre issue 131 范文参考 131. The arts reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society. As is known to all, arts, such as painting, music, literature, etc. hold great value in the development of society. Arts of different contents and forms are established along with the progress of the world and can deeply reveal something of the society. While having reservation that observing a society merely through the arts is not enough and sometimes even misleading, I fundamentally agree with the speaker that arts reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society. Generally speaking, people may consider arts as a temporary escape from the monotoneous routine work in the daily life. However, the aim of art is far more than merely to amuse the public. Above all, arts mirror peoples recognition of the world and expectation to the society, since the theme of artistic products are extracted from the personal experience of the artists. One one hand, artistic products do provide us with a glance at peoples recognition of lives and the environment they live in. We need to look no further than Bandaris music for supporting example. The peaceful and gentle style of this band reflects the calm they feel when they get close to the nature. Beethovens Symphonie No.5 is also a good case to the point. Having experienced the ups and downs in career as well as the extreme condition of deafness in his afterlife, the attitude towards fate and destiny is described as powerful, vigorous and hopeful in his music. On the other hand, arts widely hint peoples expectation for the society. For example, although the fiction Utopia is critisized as typically idealistic, we cannot deny that its description of equality, freedom, peace and the absence of evil in an imagined country does originates from the public expectation and demand for these loftly goals. | 
