A student writes, “I prefer works of art (literature and film) where a man and a woman get married at the end. I don’t really enjoy any other kind of artwork.”
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Opinions, art, debate
A student writes, “I prefer works of art (literature and film) where a man and a woman get married at the end. I don’t really enjoy any other kind of artwork.”
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Beyond weird. One of my Facebook friends, a successful sf/fantasy author, says that she does not like this kind of art at all.
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I prefer works of art where bambi’s mother isn’t killed.
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Reminded of MARTIN EDEN:
Encouraged by his several small sales, Martin went back to hack-work. Perhaps there was a living in it, after all. Stored away under his table were the twenty storiettes which had been rejected by the newspaper short-story syndicate. He read them over in order to find out how not to write newspaper storiettes, and so doing, reasoned out the perfect formula. He found that the newspaper storiette should never be tragic, should never end unhappily, and should never contain beauty of language, subtlety of thought, nor real delicacy of sentiment. Sentiment it must contain, plenty of it, pure and noble, of the sort that in his own early youth had brought his applause from “nigger heaven”—the “For-God-my-country-and-the-Czar” and “I-may-be-poor-but-I-am-honest” brand of sentiment.
Having learned such precautions, Martin consulted “The Duchess” for tone, and proceeded to mix according to formula. The formula consists of three parts: (1) a pair of lovers are jarred apart; (2) by some deed or event they are reunited; (3) marriage bells. The third part was an unvarying quantity, but the first and second parts could be varied an infinite number of times. […] But marriage bells at the end was the one thing he could take no liberties with; though the heavens rolled up as a scroll and the stars fell, the wedding bells must go on ringing just the same. In quantity, the formula prescribed twelve hundred words minimum dose, fifteen hundred words maximum dose.
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Right on!! Thanks for the apt quote. 🙂
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I am wondering whether this æsthetic preference is related to the teaching by Xtians that sex, or even unsatisfied sexual arousal, outside of marriage, is evil and sinful. This fits in with your students’ not liking nudity in films. The solution is that when a man and a woman marry at the end of a story, they are suddenly going to have permission to be sexual. This may be a close to pornography as the people who feel this way can allow themselves to venture.
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I just realized after posting this that morally this Christian æsthetic is a step above the operatic æsthetic, wherein the principals have sex, but are punished for it, often with death.
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