Category: Essays on literatuire
Why do I sympathize with Hamlet?
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.…
Rilke RM and Ukraine, Russia
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…
Childhood and youth Honore de Balzac
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…
What do the stories of Ray Douglas Bradbury teach us?
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…
The world of romance in the novel by R. L. Stevenson “Treasure Island”
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…
Characteristic of the artistic world of Charles Dickens
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…
What is a complete and incomplete offer?
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.…
On the work of FJ Dürrenmatt
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…
“Eternal” questions in the tragedy of W. Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
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…
The ennobling force of art and living nature in the fairytale “Nightingale”
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…