Category: Essays on literatuire

  • The tragedy of Martin Eden

    How many of them fell into this abyss, Deployed in the distance! There will come a day when I will disappear From the surface of the earth. M. Tsvetaeva Jack London’s novel “Martin Eden” is largely autobiographical, it is a kind of confession of the writer and an attempt to predict his future through the…

  • Is the valiant knight Don Quixote of La Mancha ridiculous?

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra conceived a novel about Don Quixote as a parody of the knightly novels that overrun medieval Spain. But the parodies, according to critics, did not work. There was a novel that did not resemble any of those that existed at that time – a novel about a naive, noble, half-twisted man…

  • My favorite work of art

    Art. It fascinates us with the power of beauty: the beauty of sounds, the beauty of the senses, the beauty of what they saw. And if someone has already enchanted a person – then this is forever. This is such a force – the power of art. Someone was fascinated by a mysterious, tender, quivering…

  • The theme of education in the novel by Charles D. Dickens “David Copperfield”

    I understood very well that I had Such tests, of which they are not They can have no idea. C. Dickens The novel by Charles D. Dickens “David Copperfield” by genre is close to the so-called “novel of education”, which usually tells about the life of the hero from infancy to maturity. Before us is…

  • Monument to the Russian Soldier

    Berlin. Treptow Park. Monument to the Russian Soldier To some friends, I already said that there is no “Victory Day” holiday in Germany. From history you know that on May 8, a capitulation was signed And this is not good for any loser country. And yet, Germany has apologized to all countries for this terrible…

  • Speech as a means of communication

    Communication is communication between people, reflecting the level of their information in any area, which serves as a means of information transfer and as a whole is a necessary “attribute” in the life of each person. There is, for example, the language of the deaf and dumb, and this is also a means of communication,…

  • The image of Childe Harold as the embodiment of the Byronic hero

    The most famous of Byron’s poems is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. The poem was created in parts. The first two of her songs were written during Byron’s trip to Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece. The third song – on the shores of Lake Geneva after the final departure from England, the fourth song is completed already in…

  • How to become a real captain?

    Rummaging in a box with toys, I pulled out a compass with a torn off arrow, which I was given a few years ago. The compass quickly bored me, and when the arrow fell off, I put it on the bottom of the box and forgot. Why did I suddenly want to take him back…

  • Composition of the animal world

    For two hundred thousand years man and animals live side by side on planet Earth. During this time, not only the appearance of man and animals changed, but also the relationship between them. At first man used animals as a source of food. Primitive people went hunting and killed animals for meat, skins, fangs. Scientists…

  • Composition Oblomovism

    The main character of the novel IA Goncharov “Oblomov” – Ilya Ilich Oblomov. He was a landowner who lived from his serfs working for him. Since childhood he has had a carefree life, his servants cared about everything. They dressed him, fed him, looked after him, did everything for him. He lived in the ancestral…