D.H. Lawrence once said, “The essential function of art is moral”. In this context, “essential function” means a feature, quality or usage that is of utmost necessity. For example, an essential function of money is to provide a medium of exchange, as money is used as a tool to exchange goods. However, it is notable that an item can have more than one function, just like how money also serves the essential function of measuring the value of items. The keyword “Moral” is a word that describes personal principles of right and wrong. “Moral” is often interchanged with the term “ethics” although they have distinctive definitions, with the first being what you personally believe to be right and the other being sets of societal rules and standards.
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While there is controversy about video games being an art form, it would be recognized as a work of creative expression employing computers and consoles as the artistic medium in this context, therefore following into the category of art. Video game franchise such as Grand Theft Auto features a fantasy world of crime that involves activities that would otherwise get you prosecuted and sentenced to a few dozen years in real life. Many parents has argued that such video games would influence our attitudes about good and bad by the moral disengagement players experience when playing the game, having the potential to manifest defective morals. Similarly, there are also controversies about certain literature shaping audience morals in a negative way. “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is a book actually written by D.H. Lawrence, the author that drew up the quote of the essential function of art being moral. The publisher Penguin books as publicly prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act 1959, as the story contained numerous sex scenes and was therefore interpreted as having negative impact on the shaping of morality, corrupting public morale values. To further illustrate how does literature serve the function of moral provocation, it was mentioned in “A History of British Publishing” that, when the jury found for the defendant, “some saw (it) as the beginning of the permissive society in Britain.” This demonstrates that even when moral provocation is unintended by the artist, it would sometimes greatly change the morality views of the society greatly as art is very influential and have the essential function of shaping moral
While there is controversy about video games being an art form, it would be recognized as a work of creative expression employing computers and consoles as the artistic medium in this context, therefore following into the category of art. Video game franchise such as Grand Theft Auto features a fantasy world of crime that involves activities that would otherwise get you prosecuted and sentenced to a few dozen years in real life. Many parents has argued that such video games would influence our attitudes about good and bad by the moral disengagement players experience when playing the game, having the potential to manifest defective morals. Similarly, there are also controversies about certain literature shaping audience morals in a negative way. “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is a book actually written by D.H. Lawrence, the author that drew up the quote of the essential function of art being moral. The publisher Penguin books as publicly prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act 1959, as the story contained numerous sex scenes and was therefore interpreted as having negative impact on the shaping of morality, corrupting public morale values. To further illustrate how does literature serve the function of moral provocation, it was mentioned in “A History of British Publishing” that, when the jury found for the defendant, “some saw (it) as the beginning of the permissive society in Britain.” This demonstrates that even when moral provocation is unintended by the artist, it would sometimes greatly change the morality views of the society greatly as art is very influential and have the essential function of shaping moral