Category: Essays on literatuire

I started to read books early. Sometimes they took too much free time from me, but they also gave incomparably more. The surrounding world, the secrets of nature, I learn from books. Several times I re-read the wonderful pages of the novel by the English writer Daniel Defoe “Robinson Crusoe.” “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”…

“Rider without a head” is a fascinating adventure, mystery and love drama novel by American writer Mein Reed. During my time at school, I read many interesting books. But the “Headless Horseman” is my favorite work. Its author is the writer Mein Reed, who lived in the nineteenth century. He was an Englishman, but in…

Composition on the theme “My favorite animal.” I like animals a lot. But most of all, of course, his hamster Homko. He’s small and so helpless. In Khomki gray coat color with small dark strips on the back. Small ears pinned to the body. He raises them when he hears my footsteps. Then he turns…

… Baudelaire, I’m thinking about you. P. Antokolsky For many generations of readers, the French poet Charles Baudelaire remains a lonely dreamer, a romantic ghost in the streets of the world city, waiting in the night for a mysterious beauty wandering the shadow. Baudelaire is the forerunner of a whole trend in literature and art,…

What complex and ambiguous feelings caused in me the story of P. Mérimée “Mateo Falcone”! Following the severe code of honor of Corsica, the protagonist of the work has lived the life of his ten-year-old son, who committed a kind of betrayal. Mateo Falcone is handsome: he has black hair like curly hair, a huge…

Throughout the entire time of human existence, human activity was characterized by a consumer attitude toward nature. I believe that if we continue to squander the same natural resources, the future of mankind will be painted with gloomy colors. Contaminated reservoirs, dirty-gray sky, cloud smog, because of which the sun’s rays do not reach the…

The creative evolution of RM Rilke reflects the general logic of the development of literature at the end of the nineteenth and the first third of the twentieth centuries. At the same time, the poet’s transition from one stage to the next was accompanied by sharp world-outlook-aesthetic fractures, which always led to a radical change…

The creative development of the writer was influenced by the classics of literature of the 19th century: C. Dickens, G. Kleist, G. Flaubert, F. Dostoyevsky, and others, as well as the Danish thinker S. Kierkegaard, posthumously recognized forerunner of existential philosophy. The traditions of the satirical depiction of the bureaucracy, the themes of guilt and…

I, like many others, suffer from bad habits. The habits of gnawing at fingernails, tattooing the earlobe, stooping, fidgeting in the chair, shuffling with walking, etc. can be classified as harmful. It is a disgusting habit to spit and use words-parasites (for example, “well,” “here,” “means” ), loudly talk and gesticulate excessively, grab another by…

The plot of the novel by James Aldridge is externally rather simple. Briefly it can be conveyed as follows: pilot Ben flew to Shark Bay on the Red Sea to take photos of sharks. He took Devi’s son with him. Ben was injured by a shark and could not fly a plane. Then he showed…