Literary
Analysis of ‘A Doll’s House’ is a drama by Henrik Ibsen
Литературный
анализ романа «Кукольный дом» Генриха Ибсена
‘A Doll’s
House’ is a drama by Henrik Ibsen. Many ideas about marriage and relations
between a wife and a husband Ibsen described from his own experience. Thus, he
believed that both spouses should live as equals. They must remain free to
become their own individual human beings. This belief of H. Ibsen is clearly
seen in ‘A Doll’s House’.Consequently
H. Ibsen was strongly criticized for the disrespect for the institution of
marriage that he expressed in ‘A Dolls’ House’. His intention was to stir up
the stagnant Norwegian society with sensitive social issues. Some people
frowned at his work and at his ideas.
the main character of "The Grapes of Wrath” by John
Steinbeck.
Литературный
анализ персонажа Тома Джоуда –
главного героя романа Джона Стейнбека «Гроздья
гнева»
Tom Joad is
the main character of the novel "The Grapes of Wrath” written by John
Steinbeck. This character undergoes various changes in the course of his
difficult, strenuous and tense life. Tom Joad is a real embodiment of a person
who was politicized after facing the unfairness and injustice towards himself
and towards other people who surrounded him. The novel "The Grapes of Wrath” by
John Steinbeck narrates about the life story of a man. Tom Joad lived with his
family in Oklahoma and later moved to California. All those changes and events
happened during the harsh period of the Great Depression which was extremely
difficult for American people of all social layers, especially for those who
were not very rich. The book starts from description of Tom Joad who just
returned from prison. Tom came back to his family farm but soon the whole
family was forced to move away from the farm due to harsh conditions such as
economic turmoil. As a result of this, Tom broke his parole and decided to help
his family.
Literary
analysis of "Sister Carrie” by Theodore Dreiser
Литературный
анализ романа «Сестра Керри» Теодора Драйзера
Theodor
Dreiser wrote his novel "Sister Carrie” in 1900. This novel became a very
successful debut of him. Besides he laid down all the major themes that were
also reflected in his following novels.
"Sister
Carrie” was called the typical American novel. The main characters and their
stories illustrated the influence that the changes in the economic situation in
the country made upon American society and culture. Caroline Meeber is one of
the thousands of men and women who were seeking for any job in hard economic
situation caused by the economic boom. She is introduced into a novel in an
unusual way. She has no history and we know nothing about her former life.
Gerald
Manley Hopkins is an outstanding English poet of the 19th century,
whose works cannot be overestimated. His contribution to the world’s poetry in
particular and to the world’s art in general is immense and boundless. His
inspiration was enriched by many things, notions and concepts. Moreover the
basis for this inspiration was laid in the early childhood of the future poet. The
first influence was made by his parents, who did a lot for their son’s
commitment to the creative arts and to religion. Both religion and creative
arts were so deeply plunged into Hopkins’ life that they never left it until
the death of the poet. His mother liked books very much, so she tried to
cultivate her son’s love to books, reading and literature. His father also was
closely connected with the world of poetry as he wrote poems himself and
studied the works of other poets as well.
"The
Oresteian Trilogy” is a masterpiece of the prominent Greek writer Aeschylus. He
presented true dramatic characters in his trilogy. Clytemnestra is one of the
brightest characters of "The Oresteian Trilogy”. This character is interpreted
as a tool of a demon of the patrimonial damnation. She says about that herself,
besides she reminds Orestes of the call of the fate when he intends to kill
her. However that does not mean that Clytemnestra is an innocent agent of gods
and has no will of her own. On the contrary all her actions are motivated by
vital and realistic reasons. She hates her husband and her hatred is boundless.
Clytemnestra motivates it by the murder of their daughter by Agamemnon and by
his love affair with Cassandra. These arguments are obviously insincere. Thus,
Agamemnon did not want to murder their daughter and did it only for the sake of
the obedience to the will of gods. Besides love affairs could not be reproached
from the point of view of the laws of the Greek morality of those times. It is
evident that the reason of Clytemnestra’s hatred towards her husband originates
from the other sources...
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
and "The Tell-Tales Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Литературный анализ
The work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow
Wallpaper” and the work by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart” represent the
genre of a short story. In literary terms both these stories look back to the
tradition practiced by Edgar Allan Poe – the tradition of the psychological
horror tale. Both stories are told from the point of view of an insane author
who disclaims being insane and tries to persuade other people and a reader that
everything is quite opposite.
"Two billion
cars: driving toward sustainability” by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon is a
book that covers a lot of important and very acute issues. This book is
dedicated to cars: every page of it is filled with information that deals with
nothing else, but cars only. The book covers the whole history and gives the
profound overview of the global auto industry. It tells the reader the true
love story of cars and its owners, reveals secrets and mysteries connected with
America’s love affair with various and diverse cars. The authors of the book
that describes two billion cars pay attention to serious problems that appeared
as a result of human’s love and worship of the most popular vehicle for modern
people. Billions of cars in the world do not only make the life of their owners
comfortable and pleasant, but they also cause much harm to nature and to the
entire world. These problems rose in the past decades as the number of cars
increased considerably only within the last twenty years. It is mainly due to
the extensive growth of China and India. As a result, the greenhouse effect
became a more serious ecological problem than it used to be earlier. These
problems are illuminated by the authors of the book, besides some possible
decisions are suggested.
Литературный анализ трагедии Уильяма Шекспира "Отелло"
The plays
of William Shakespeare have not lost their currency even after five centuries.
This happens due to some reasons. The most important of them is that he
skillfully depicted all the characters of his tragedies, not only the main
ones, but minor characters as well. The character of Emilia in "Othello” is a
very bright example.
Emilia is
one of the characters in "Othello” by W. Shakespeare who differs from the other
characters by honesty, sincerity and fairness. She is very quiet, taciturn and
even uncommunicative. When Desdemona introduces her, she emphasizes that Emilia
"has no speech”. Iago confirms that idea a little bit further: "She puts her tongue a little
in her heart and chides with thinking”. Emilia really does not seem to be a
chatter-box. But if a woman is taciturn that means in no way that she has
nothing to say. She may not want to speak much on unimportant topics but if
something bothers her, Emilia is able to make a speech. When her husband Iago
confirms that Desdemona was unfaithful to Othello, she burns with indignation
and makes a speech in order to protect her mistress from groundless
accusations.
The utopian novel "Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887” was written by Edward
Bellamy and first saw the world in 1888. It exited the whole world that did not
expect anything of this kind. It was impossible to find anyone who did not read
or even did not hear about it. It depicted the ideal society of the XX century
where everyone had the opportunity to realize his or her personality and
therefore was extremely happy.
But we are the people who face this "ideal” life from Bellamy’s point of
view. We have seen the century that Edward Bellamy could only imagine so we can
really judge whether his ideas of the perfect society where every citizen is
totally free were positive or not.
Edward Bellamy claimed that the most positive feature of the Golden Age
society, created in "Looking Backward”is that everyone’s will and desires are not restricted as they were in
his own times. But it is not that vivid if we analyze the perfect Bellamy’s society
more thoroughly.
Virginia
Woolf is one of the brightest writers of modernity. Her works are not only
unique; they are also psychological, philosophical and very difficult to
understand. Her works are usually treated as experimental psychological novels.
It is sure to say that one of her brightest novels "Mrs Dalloway” is probably
the most difficult one. It is not easy to interpret it at all. It is very
difficult to analyze its composition (style, genre, rhythm) and the peculiarities
of its content (theme, plot, conflict, characters, idea). Using the principal
technique of her woks – the stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf tries to
imprint the process of thinking of her characters, to reproduce their slightest
feelings, thoughts, emotions. It stands to reason that the writer is not
interested in the real world. What she is really interested in is the
interpretation of the real world in the consciousness and subconsciousness. She
dismisses the real world with its problems and leaves for a better world, a
world of feelings and emotional experience, rich associations and changeable
senses. Virginia Woolf makes a reader enter the character’s inner world, but
not study the reasons that made the character do in this or that way. That
reason results in the impressionistic manner of image and style: there is no
clear form, but the text abounds in fragmentary details and features.
Фрагмент статьи посвящён изучению проявления антропоморфизма
на материале рассказа "Wild Animals I Have
Known”
канадского писателя Эрнеста Томпсона Сетона
Anthropomorphism is the phenomenon that is based on the endowment of all
animals, plants, natural phenomena with human features and qualities. Anthropomorphism
presupposes that animals have psychological features and capabilities that are
inherent in people only. These ideas are not proved scientifically and are
seriously debated among scientists and other pragmatic people and exclude
everything that cannot be scientifically explained. The scientific point of
view is that animals are inanimate beings that cannot behave like people and
feel the same. Animals cannot have emotions and psychological feelings and
experience of this character. But people who adore animals usually disagree
with those pragmatists. They claim that if something cannot be explained from
the scientific point of view that does not mean that animals cannot feel
emotional pain.
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