Category: Essays on literatuire
“In a true tragedy legitimate moral forces must come into collision on both sides”
Hegel asserted: “In a true tragedy, legitimate moral forces must come into collision on both sides.” This idea can be developed on the example of “Antigone”. The tragedy is written on the mythological plot of the Theban cycle. It is not part of the trilogy, as it was in Aeschylus, but is a complete work.…
Poetic Diary of a Romantic Soul
For the first time, with utter frankness, having spoken in verse about the storms and passions that had shaken his heart, Byron made a real revolution in the lyrics. Before him, poets mostly wrote about love and hatred, joys and sufferings as generalized, abstract, and often conditional feelings. Byron, however, turned the soul inside out,…
Questions and answers to the fairy tale of G. Kh. Andersen “Kaloshi Happiness”
How did you understand the name “Kaloshi Happiness” before and after reading the fairy tale? Happiness is not that galoshes can carry you at any time, but that the happiness of a person is closely related to the time in which he lives. What’s the point Andersen put in the phrase: “All the way, he…
Rebellious teenager against the “adult” world
Life, it turns out, is not always beautiful – it can be dangerous. It resembles a tightly rope stretched over an abyss. Right – left – up – down. Where we will be, walking on it, clenching our teeth with fear and balancing our hands so as not to fall, stay. Now on it goes…
The tragedy of the war in the works of H. Böll
The work of the German writer Heinrich Böll is almost entirely devoted to the theme of war and the postwar life of Germany. His works immediately gained fame, began to be printed in many countries of the world, and in 1972 the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize “for creativity, which combines a broad scope…
“Red and black” F. Stendhal as a socio-political novel
The Bourbon monarchy, renovated by the occupation forces, was a noble monarchy, that is, political power belonged to the nobility. However, the bourgeoisie already reigned in the economy and was preparing to take political power into its hands, which happened, only Stendhal completed the novel. This re-victory – after the revolution of the late XVIII…
Genre of the novel “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens
In the history of the formation and development of English realism, Charles Dickens’s novel “David Copperfield” occupies a special place. Along with such famous works of the writer as “Cold House” and “Little Dorrit”, this novel marks a qualitatively new stage in his work, characterized by a deeper penetration of Charles Dickens into the psychology…
Work on a work
How to write a good composition? Often this question is asked not only by the schoolchildren who are not given this task in any way, but also by parents who are powerless to help their student children, and teachers who are looking for new ways and methods to teach the children to write essays. For…
What is the secret of Hamlet for us?
Each generation for four centuries in different ways is experiencing the tragedy of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, written in 1601. The secret hidden in the tragedy, everyone reveals in his own way. Hamlet? .. Do we understand the meaning of this name? – it’s great and deep: it’s human life, it’s a person, it’s you, it’s…
Composition on the novel “The Way of Abai” M. O. Auezov
He who works only for himself, is likened to cattle, stuffing his belly. Worthy works for mankind. Abai Kunanbayev “The novel-epic of his distant relative of the famous Kazakh writer M. O. Auezov” The Way of Abai “is devoted to the difficult fate of the life of the great poet-educator Abai Kunanbayev, for which he…