Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious blessings that the sky has bestowed on people. Cervantes Roman Cervantes “The cunning hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha” is one of the greatest creations of world literature. His protagonist has become a household name and for centuries already lives separate from Cervantes’s life. Both the novel … Read more
There were, and probably will be, people in the society like Hamlet. They are tormented by eternal problems, not understanding why the world is so incongruously arranged, and they want to change it. And this is their cross. Hamlet is a person who has walked the bridge of time for more than four hundred years … Read more
Estimate the author’s reasoning by which he begins a miniature: “Destiny draws attention to the powerful and powerful: for years she slavishly persuades her chosen one – Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, for she loves nature spontaneous, like herself – an incomprehensible element.” What do you agree with and disagree with in this reasoning? Many readers do … Read more
Gold! Streams of gold. To implement our Whims, you need time, you need material Opportunities or efforts. Well! In gold everything is contained in the bud, and it all gives In fact. O. Balzac From 1830 to 1848, Balzac created three versions of the novel, gradually tightening up the image of the protagonist – the … Read more
At first glance, Childe Harold, aimlessly wandering around the world and vainly trying to get rid of his longing for misery, seems to be the best recipient of the lines from the famous Lermontov poem “Parus”, written later “Pilgrimage…” and, undoubtedly, in the footsteps of the English poet – romance: What is he looking for … Read more
Even in my early childhood, my mother read to me the tales of the remarkable Danish storyteller GK Andersen. I was very interested when the most usual things came to life on the pages of my favorite book, flowers, animals, toys began to talk. Most of all I liked the fairy tale “The Snow Queen”, … Read more
Moral emptiness, like the new for Charles Dickens ethical category, first appears on the pages of the novel “David Copperfield.” Is it accidental? Dickens, having refused in his work from the mechanical forces that cut the knots of contradictions, and dispelling the illusions of self-deception of their heroes, in a certain sense deprived them of … Read more
A. de Saint-Exupéry Ernest Miller Hemingway – the largest American writer of the XX century, Nobel Prize winner. He was a unique, talented person who courageously and freely lived his life, repeatedly confirming the phrase that was dropped once: “I’m not afraid of anything.” The author of novels “Farewell, Arms!”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, … Read more
In the novel-epic “War and Peace” the author overcomes the parade of the feat. In what works of Russian or modern literature do we observe the de-romanticization of the notion of “heroism” and how can we compare them with the novel of Leo Tolstoy? Plutarch noted that “not always in the most important deeds, one … Read more
In the novel “Gobsek” Balzac showed the spiritual essence of the modern author of society. According to the protagonist, “on earth there is nothing lasting, but gold.” Indeed, the bourgeois epoch exalted money, believing in their power, in the evil power of money. The main hero of the story devoted his entire life to their … Read more