Sunday, October 7, 2007

Subjectivity

I think that subjectivity played a large part in the structure of my essay and the structure of any critical essay. I think in my essay it basically fueled the whole thing. My whole essay's basis ended up being what I thought of the two pieces of art. For example, my whole premise behind the body paragraphs on the pieces of art was what I thought of them, without backing up my opinion. Subjectivity can be as effective as factual evidence. For example, most of Susan Sontag's "In Pluto's Cave," is just her opinion without factual evidence, but it just as effective as factual evidence. However, within her article she does also back up some of her opinions, which I think it is necessary to eventually do that in order to have any of your opinions taken seriously. In regards to my paper, I could use more factual evidence in order to have my opinions to be taken more as truth. Ultimately, I believe opinion should drive this paper, because it about what I think is art. Thus, I think I could have used even more personal thought or personal examples to prove my point.

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