The greatest writer who worked in the period of classicism, was Moliere, the creator of French comedy, one of the founders of the French national theater. In the comedy “The Bourgeois in the Nobility” Moliere reflected the complex processes of the decomposition of the old aristocratic stratum of French society. At that time in France … Read more
My name is Kate. I want to tell you about one of my days at school. I’m in the 6th grade. My class is not very big, only twenty people: twelve boys and eight girls. We are all very friendly, we try to always help each other. We all live close by and often get … Read more
According to the researchers, Stendhal’s spiritual development was affected by uneasy relations with his father, who was a type of self-satisfied smug bourgeois. The writer built his artistic world in many respects as opposed to his father’s preferences: he placed the free personality and her passions at the center of this world, not submitting to … Read more
The whaling ship Bedford picked up a man who, exhausted, crawled to the sea. Before getting here, he had to overcome the trials, which seemed to be beyond the strength of man… Two gold diggers set out on a difficult long journey to the Land of Little Sticks. From the very beginning, they were unlucky. … Read more
Prosper Merimee began his creative career in the mid-1920s. as an active participant in the romantic movement. One by one, his works appeared, not similar to the previous ones on themes and genre nature. The main contribution of Merimee to the French realistic literature is novellistics. Actually, he has great merit in the development of … Read more
What do we know about the writer E. Hemingway? He is a man of extraordinary abilities, since he has not only interesting works, but also life. The catastrophic times of the First World War, revolutions, coups left signs of catastrophic life on Hemingway’s life. Participation in the war on the side of the Italian army, … Read more
The world outlook and personal destiny of Julien Sorel have developed in close dependence on the historical events that took place in France. From the past, he borrows his code of honor, which should be strictly enforced. In this code the requests of the plebeian ambitious can be looked through, but Julien Sorel will never … Read more
Literary critics refer Hemingway to realistic writers. Defining the task of the master of the word, the great American wrote: “… It is always to write truthfully, and comprehend the truth, to express it so that it enters the reader’s consciousness as part of his own experience.” It was truthfulness that became the basis of … Read more
Many events in the novel “David Copperfield” echo the events in the life of the writer himself. It is a novel-recollection, where the first impressions and judgments of a child are carefully delivered to us by an adult, a writer who managed to keep in his soul the purity of the child’s perception. The first … Read more
Finishing school, millions of young people begin an independent life. They can start working, doing business or continuing their studies to get a higher education. Almost every Russian city has one or more institutions. In Moscow and St. Petersburg. look whole I often dream of my future: what will it be like? It is necessary … Read more
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” … Read more
“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 … Read more
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 … Read more
… 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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
I’m a city dweller. And as a city-dweller, I’m used to the fact that I am always surrounded by comfort and civilization, I am accustomed to the noise of transport, factories, factories. Nearby shops, bus stop, telephone. Fast cycle of life, alternation of days, weeks, months. You do not have time to look back – … Read more
Strictly all Stendhal experiences his hero in love. It is in love Zhyulen Sorel, despite all attempts to turn this feeling into an instrument of ambitious designs, nature is revealed as a selfless, passionate and tender, without the rest is given to the natural sense, by force of circumstances from time to time to hide … Read more
The image of the great poet of the East Omar Khayyam is fanned with legends, the biography is full of secrets and mysteries. His full name can hardly fit in one line. But even more facets of his talent. The Ancient East knew Omar Khayyam primarily as an outstanding scientist: mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosopher. In … Read more
I now taste my own supreme moment. I. Goethe Goethe wrote his tragedy “Faust” for over 25 years. The first part of it was published in 1808, the second – only a quarter of a century. This work had a strong influence on all European literature of the first half of the XIX century. Who … Read more
In your business card, you have to say what your name is, how old are you, what grade you are in, what your favorite subject is, where you live. Tell us about your family, your mom and dad, how old they are. You can tell about your pet if you have one. Tell everyone what … Read more
The novel “Fathers and Sons” by IS Turgenev was published in 1862. Since then, he continues to delight readers with his artistic merits, and the political, philosophical and aesthetic problems raised by the writer on his pages continue to excite the minds and hearts of people. The protagonist of the novel, Bazarov, is represented by … Read more
Returning in 1822 to France, Stendhal plunges into the atmosphere of literary struggle. Official Paris met its writer unfriendly, here rumors have already come about the “dubious” Italian acquaintances of Stendhal. The writer does not inspire the French policemen with more confidence than the Austrian detectives. Willy-nilly Stendhal has to be extremely careful. He is … Read more
Every morning people start from work. The school boy sits at the desk, the driver climbs into the cabin, the worker gets to the machine. The student takes the book, because reading is also work. An office employee includes a computer, a businessman calls by phone, a housewife lights a stove, and a fisherman goes … Read more
Firstly, it was distinguished by a special arrangement and arrangement of the stage, which resembled either a trapezoid or an oval and protruded deep into the stalls. This created the illusion of an area action, during which actors, surrounded by spectators on all sides, performed on conventional wagons. This effect was exacerbated by the absence … Read more
How did Gulliver manage the money his father sent him? What was Gulliver’s most cherished dream? What did the first country Gulliver visited look like? How did the people of Lilliputians behave towards Gulliver? They met the Man of the Mountain quite affably, they gave him shelter, provided him with food. With him the Emperor … Read more
I scream… but who will help, So that my soul does not die? N. Gumilev “Transformation”, in my opinion, is one of the most terrible works of world literature and the most famous short story by Franz Kafka. From the very beginning, we expect that the main conflict of the novel will be connected with … Read more
In it live two creatures, a miser and A philosopher, a vile creature and sublime. O. de Balzac. Gobsek What an ambiguous personality was able to create Honore de Balzac in his novel “Gobsek”! What a strange and, you can say, terrible fate for the hero of this story – the usurer of the Hobsek, … Read more
Despite a modest circulation, the first edition of The Suffering of the Young Werther made a lot of noise in Germany and abroad. The German youth put on a “werewolf suit,” many young people, like the protagonist of the novel, committed suicide, and the hero’s beloved, ingenuous and natural in all his manifestations, Lotta, became … Read more
The importance of language in the life of man and society, the functions that it carries – this is a very important side of the existence of society. It preserves the spiritual and cultural values of people. Through the language the people express their thoughts, express emotions. The words of outstanding people are quoted and … Read more
Once Baron Munchausen walked through the forest. He kept a bag of cherries, which he bought in a village shop. However, the deer prevented him from enjoying it. He suddenly appeared from the forest thicket, stood still, looking at the baron. And the baron, as you know, is an avid hunter. But this time he … Read more
The works of Jean-Baptiste Moliere in spirit are very close to the Russian people. Moliere knew that comedy art touches his contemporaries more and deeper than tragedy. His life credo was – “entertaining, to teach.” Moliere always led the struggle to establish his plays on stage. In them he portrayed the most diverse inhabitants of … Read more
Antique art with its unrivaled masters of literature, painting, sculpture and architecture survived the century. The images and plots of ancient mythology were widely used by subsequent generations, they are not forgotten even today. One of the most beautiful for me is the ancient Greek world of Prometheus, who stole fire from the sky and … Read more
The profound philosophical content of works, the direction of poetic thought to comprehend world being in its integrity; artistic development of the concept of the unity of life and death, most vividly embodied in leitmotivous images of the plant world; comprehension of life defeats, losses and crises as painful but necessary conditions for a person’s … Read more
I’ve always loved summer months more than all the other seasons. It’s a vacation! And the long-awaited hot season comes! No jackets, no sweaty hats! Down with the gloves, which all the time you lose one piece of the pair, and my mother swears! Go for hours at a time barefoot on hot soil and … Read more
My name is Marina and I’m 16 years old. This year I graduate from school and the question that bothers me most is where to continue learning. I have already decided what kind of profession I want to do in the future, but in my town there are not so many educational institutions. I want … Read more
“On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro Singing her husky song “. (At night by the sea one, Water, like an old mother, with a husky Song lulls the earth.) W. Whitman When this is the end of a person’s life, they always look for an explanation … Read more
To be or not to be, that is the question. V. Shakespeare. Hamlet The tragedy of W. Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is rightly recognized as one of the greatest philosophical tragedies, since it touches upon questions that for centuries worried thinking people: what is life and what is death? what is the cause of misfortunes and misfortunes … Read more
How did it happen that the hero of Jack London was left alone with the wild nature? What made a man pull himself together? Nature suppressed him with her greatness and indifference, but the desire to overcome fear and pain lifted man to his feet. He had to get rid of this annoying picture that … Read more
Young and ambitious Julien Sorel seeks to make a career in a brutal, hostile society. To achieve this goal, he has no means and possibilities, except hypocrisy, whose “art” he is compelled to master in order to adapt to the hated environment. Constantly feeling surrounded by enemies, Julien closely monitors each step, acts all the … Read more
Under Napoleon, a young man like Julien Sorel could quickly make a brilliant career. But the political winds at the moment when we meet with the young hero of Stendhal, blowing in a different direction. Julien Sorel repeatedly makes sure of this. “One day, walking alone in the seminar garden, he heard a conversation between … Read more
The desire of every person to break out in life – to become better, smarter, richer, completely understandable. It is worthy of respect for his desire to rise a step higher. The main thing here is not to look ridiculous, imitating only some external signs and remaining internally all at the same level. Here is … Read more