There is no sadder story in the world than the tale of Romeo and Juliet. V. Shakespeare The famous tragedy of W. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” was first staged in 1595. Centuries have passed, but today, as in the days of Shakespeare, this “sad story” makes one tremble of heart, as this eternal theme continues … Read more
Cinematography occupies an important place in modern life. Today, cinema has reached the peak of its popularity and has great educational and aesthetic power. Every day there are continuous shooting. Cinema is one of the youngest arts of our time. It arose at the end of the XIX century, which we owe to the world-famous … Read more
Saint-Exupery wrote the “Little Prince” shortly before his tragic death. As the poet A. Prasolov says, “individual human souls always publish their last, swan-pure, farewell cry…” This philosophical tale became a testament to the writer’s will to people. Many of her lines entered our life as commandments: “We are responsible for those who have tamed,” … Read more
Arthur Conan Doyle is a famous English writer, creator of the image of the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes. Probably, there is no person who in his time did not read the stories about Sherlock Holmes. In all these stories, most striking is the detective’s logic, his ability to build a logical chain, not missing any, … Read more
February 28, 1832 in the life of the writer there was an event that marked the beginning of a “beautiful heart drama”: Balzac unexpectedly received a letter from Odessa with an intriguing signature of “Inostranka”. Soon the writer learned that his correspondent was a Polish aristocrat of Russian citizenship, the Countess Evelina Ghanskaya, the great-granddaughter … Read more
What effect does true art have on man? Is it able to transform it morally? The author of the text makes us think about these questions. GI Uspensky in this text reflects on the role of art. He talks about how he accidentally went to the Louvre, saw a statue of Venus de Milo. He … Read more
“A person can be destroyed, but it can not be defeated”. E. Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is a man of amazing destiny, the author of a number of excellent books, among which a special place belongs to the story “The Old Man and the Sea”, created in the middle of the 20th century, in 1952, a … Read more
If the fathers are trampled on with their feet, Fatherland will perish. O. de Balzac. Father Gorio At all times, respect for the elders was one of the main pillars on which not only the family but the entire society relies. Children from all over the world are brought up in fairy tales and stories, … Read more
What is the main theme of the novel? “David Copperfield” is a novel about the formation of personality, about the fate of a young man entering life. Can we call Dickens’s novel an autobiographical work? The novel is written in the first person, and on its pages many events from the author’s life were reflected, … Read more
Among the many diverse legends we learn from the poem of the ancient Roman poet Ovid “Metamorphosis” and a beautiful but tragic myth about the greatest Athenian artist, sculptor and architect Daedalus. The fate of this man was not easy. Despite his talents, his compatriots sentenced him to death for having committed a murder. The … Read more
At the end of June 1809, Byron went on a two-year journey, during which he visited Portugal, Spain, Albania, Turkey and Greece. Byron was interested in the peoples of these countries, their life, culture. Particularly struck by his social contrasts: he saw the unlimited arbitrariness of local and foreign tyrants, the complete lack of rights … Read more
“And bored and sad, and there is no one to give In a moment of spiritual unhappiness. “ M. Lermontov About Salinger is known very little. He does not like to give interviews. I liked that he wrote about himself in one of the books shortly and dryly, and then “at the request of his … Read more
Yet none of the books I read attracted me more than the works of Vladimir Kunin. Reading the books of this writer, completely immersed in the atmosphere of what is happening. I think that the interest in his works is due primarily to the very high saturation of events, but at the same time you … Read more
I believe that people should not treat nature as it is now. Probably we all know how much damage is caused by deforestation, drainage of swamps, pollution of water bodies. A person often throws trash into ponds, rivers, lakes, oceans and seas. Even when a person throws garbage near the water, it is washed away … Read more
Who went on a voyage on the schooner “Pilgrim”? How did it happen that Dick Sand became its captain? How did it happen that the “Pilgrim” lost his course? Taking advantage of Dick’s inexperience, the ship’s cook Negoro broke the compass and imperceptibly changed the testimony of the other. Therefore, instead of America, the ship … Read more
War – this is a terrible word, but how much tragic and terrible is behind it! The Great Patriotic War devoted a lot of works in our literature. These are poems, poems, stories, and novels. Their authors are front-line writers and those who were born after the war ended. But the “fortieth, fatal” is still … Read more
What is the main thing in the description? The main task in writing such a composition is to notice something interesting, unusual, original in the described subject. This may be due to the peculiarities of gestures, gait, look, occupation and kind of activity, with a certain mood and personality traits of a person. All this … Read more
There is a wise saying: “Friends are known in trouble,” and it’s true. A friend is someone you can trust. I think that every person needs good friends, otherwise life becomes boring. We all need people with whom we will laugh and cry, go out and have fun, play active or board games, and finally … Read more
Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. Even some twenty years ago his name was forbidden to pronounce, and today we admire his deeply philosophical works, in which he reveals the skill in depicting characters, the ability to observe people and understand them. And this is especially clearly revealed in the story “Matrenin yard”. What is interesting about this … Read more
“Divine Comedy” – the main work of Dante, brought him immortality. Dante called his poem “comedy”, because mournful at the beginning, it ends with a joyous ending. In the time when Dante lived, wars were going on in Italy. Although Dante was a believer, he lost faith in kindness and nobility during these wars. This … Read more
Hamlet is the protagonist of the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name, Prince of Denmark. He has a mother, an uncle, a friend of Horatio and a lady of the heart – Ofelia. My father, true, Hamlet does not, but what can you do – all people ever die. The prince was, I think, happy. … Read more
As you already know, a great influence on the personality of Rilke was his journey through Russia and Ukraine. He met with outstanding figures of Russian culture, was interested in the life of the people. The poet visited Yasnaya Polyana, where he met Leo Tolstoy. The last year of his life corresponded with Boris Pasternak … Read more
On May 20, 1799, a boy was born in the ancient French city of Tours, on the street of the Italian army, in the house of the assistant to the mayor and trustee of the charitable institutions, Bernard-Frarsois, who changed his plebeian name Balsa to the noble mode of de Balzac. The mother of the … Read more
The stories of R. Bradbury are fascinatingly interesting. I generally like science fiction. But the works of this writer shocked me not because people live on Venus, or on Mars, or on Earth in the distant future. I was surprised how they live, what they are. The writer as if warns people: look, that the … Read more
Robert Lewis Stevenson is an English writer, a native Scotsman, son and grandson of Scottish engineers, famous lighthouse builders. Already in these facts the biography of the writer is something mysterious, romantic. The most famous work of Stevenson is the novel “Treasure Island”. One day an old seaman came to the “Admiral Benbow” tavern. He … Read more
The desire for an artistic cognition of the world in its diversity and contradictions; Criticism of social conditions and social institutions that condemn the person to suffering and humiliation; study of the depths of the human soul, its innate, ie, not dependent on the society of good and bad inclinations, its ability to self-transfiguration; the … Read more
In an incomplete sentence, any member of the sentence (one or more) can be omitted. Incomplete sentences are sentences, members in which, necessary for completeness and structure, are absent. Incomplete are the sentences in which any member of the sentence is omitted. The meaning of an incomplete sentence can only be understood in the context. … Read more
Already in the first stories of Dyurrenmatt, included in the collection “The City”, his literary landmarks appeared. Kafka, French writers, existentialists, Dostoevsky, and Gogol, in whose works the Swiss playwright especially appreciated “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” and “Notes of a Madman” were among them, in the first place. Already in the early works … Read more
The brilliant English playwright William Shakespeare lived and worked at the turn of the 16th-17th centuries. His work is divided into several stages. The early period reflects the worldview of the Renaissance and is the embodiment of humanism. Plays of the first period are filled with optimism, the joy of life, contain an element of … Read more
Hans Christian Andersen is familiar to all the children of the world. Together with a good magician Ole Lukoie, he told us dozens of good, wise and beautiful fairy tales. From him we learned about the little northern country of Denmark where the writer lived, about elves and trolls, about the tiny Thumbelina and the … Read more
When I was asked the theme of the composition, I was surprised why it should be called reasoning. It’s just hard for me to understand how you can talk about your mother. I think it’s better to talk about my mother simply. For example, tell us about how she loves us with her brother, how … Read more
Probably every person thinks about what will happen tomorrow. And everyone is interested in how his life will turn… I believe that man himself is the smith of his happiness. And how you live now, you think, you act – a lot depends on this. You must always be self-confident, have a goal in life, … Read more
They say that “the truth will make you free,” and that’s so, so the path to truth is also the way to freedom-freedom from the illusions of life and subsequent psychological suffering. Why is the path to truth and freedom (enlightenment) possible only through self-knowledge? Let us first consider the question of what self-knowledge is. … Read more
Antoine de Saint-Exupery is not just a pilot and not just a writer. He is also a great sage, a philosopher who knows how to express the ineffable by simple and accessible words, to convey the inexpressible. For whom the author wrote his fairy tale – for children or for adults? And is this a … Read more
I’m not a big fan of television, but if they show something interesting, then I look with pleasure. Let me tell you a bit about my favorite show, which I started watching just recently. It is called “Interns”. This is a comedy about four medical students who must undergo practical training. In a word, these … Read more
A big trace in my mind left the novel “The Hero of Our Time” by M. Yu. Lermontov. For me, first of all, it is extremely valuable and expensive that the novel raises vital problems, such as the problem of happiness, the problem of good and evil, the problem of predestination and freedom, self-will. The … Read more
Name all the heroes of the story. Determine their role in the story. In the story, Lord Canterville, the family of Mr. Hyrum B. Otis, himself: Mr. Otis himself, his wife Mrs. Lucretia R. Otis, the eldest son Washington, daughter of Miss Virginia E. Otis, the younger sons-twins, nicknamed “Stars and Stripes”, because their without … Read more
Any great work caused To life by spirit and inquiries Nation, becomes the property of the people. M. Gorky Dickens’ novel “The Adventures of Oliver Twist” is a work directed not only at showing the cruel and inhuman conditions in which the vast majority of ordinary people lived in England in the 1930s and 1940s, … Read more
Russia lost Russia in Russia, writes Evgeny Evtushenko in the poem “Loss”. How relevant these lines are! It is not necessary to prove that our society is in pain, that it is experiencing spiritual starvation. And a person is looking for ways of self-expression, a form of self-expression. At all times people have sought to … Read more
The fairy tale “The Little Prince” is written by Exupery for both children and adults. Like all books of the writer, she is about respect for people, about responsibility before humanity. And more on how to learn this complex craft. Exupery does not like instruction, as all children do not like them. But, telling the … Read more
What facts of Stendhal’s biography influenced his views? A fascination with the ideals of the Enlightenment, reading of the works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot; Participation in the campaign of Napoleon’s army in 1812 to Moscow. What are the aesthetic views of Stendhal, reflected in the novel “Red and Black”? Aesthetic views of Stendhal formed on … Read more
A chervonium is a love, And chorny – then the magazine… D. Pavlychko Since the advent of the novel Stendhal more than 150 years have passed. The novel was read by millions of people in many languages. Many books written about Stendhal’s writings have been written, but so far literary critics can not come to … Read more
Charles Baudelaire, one of the greatest French poets of the nineteenth century, was the “stepchild” of his time and the forerunner of the time of the future, who opened and presented to the world, according to Victor Hugo’s apt expression, the poetry of “a new thrill.” It is not for nothing that the well-known Ukrainian … Read more
The novel “Stranger” is written in the genre of the philosophical parable. This multifaceted work, recreating the situation of social alienation rights. Roman – notes of the ill-fated murderer who is awaiting execution after the trial, are willy-nilly perceived as an invitation to think about the fairness of the sentence, like a petition for clemency, … Read more
The novel by Charles D. Dickens “David Copperfield” was published in 1850. This work of Dickens is largely autobiographical: the author tells the first person the story of a man who became a writer. David, like Dickens himself, has withstood a grueling struggle against difficult life circumstances. David Copperfield tells his story as if from … Read more
Oh heaven, that’s beauty! I have never seen such a thing in my life. How unspoilt-pure And how sarcastically, without malice! I. Goethe “Faust” is a work on which Goethe worked almost all his life and which changed along with the author. In the center of the tragedy, the story of Dr. Faust, in the … Read more
Creativity G. Ibsen reflected the most important problems of the moral life of the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. and laid the foundation for a new European theater. In his artistic evolution, the playwright went through four stages. The first, “romantic” period of Ibsen’s work was closely connected with the national-patriotic rise that … Read more
In the 6th century BC there lived a man called Aesop. According to legend, he was a slave from Phrygia. Subsequently, he was released to freedom and he lived for some time at the court of the Lydian king Krez. Why did the name of this man survive the millennium? He is a fabulist. He … Read more
Interest in the study is the theme “Hemingway and Russian literature.” It is known that the literary idol of the American writer was Leo Tolstoy. “I do not know anyone who would write about the war better than Tolstoy,” Hemingway noted, “I love War and Peace, I love the amazing, heartfelt and truthful descriptions of … Read more
The life story of the great French novelist is, in essence, the story of his work. Balzac himself said: “The main events of my life are my works”. Indeed, very often the “vital material” penetrated the pages of his novels. More than once in his works the story of a young man who because of … Read more