Nikolai Gogol

Constantin Stanislavski was born on 1863 with the name of Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev in Moscow, Russia. He was part of a family who loved theater (His maternal grandmother was a French actress and his father constructed a stage on the family's estate) .He then started acting at the age of 14 joining the family drama chain. In 1885, he gave himself the stage name of Constantin Stanislavski. A couple of years later he married a teacher that would study hard with him about acting. In 1897…

In this paper I will examine the two short stories ‘A Diary Of a Madman’ by Nikolai Gogol and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ tells the story of an unnamed married woman who--according to the narration-- suffers from a ‘temporary nervous depression’ and as the story progresses she gradually loses her sense of self and reality. The story of Ivanovich Poprishchin in ‘A Diary of a Madman’ progresses in a similar manner, as the anxious and socially…

are favorites among Russian actors and audiences.” (Enotes). Ostrovsky was revered for the realistic depiction of Russian life and people. He was widely praised for his characters by contemporaries, critics, and the audience. Contemporaries like Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Goncharov enjoyed his plays immensely and gave favoring reviews. Ostrovsky had a career “without a rival among Russian authors for theatre.” (Theatre Database). He was such a pioneer in his field that he did not have any rivalries…

Mapping the elements of absurdism in Albert Camus’ The myth of Sisyphus Nirmit Bhatnagar B.A(hons) English Vth Sem…

from the Golden Age in the nineteenth century, Russian literature had been subversive: “the classical writers of Imperial Russia had criticized their society and opposed its evils and errors” (Slonim 162). In his play, The Government Inspector, Nikolai Gogol satirizes the extensive political corruption of the Tsarist Empire. Anton Chekhov analogizes the Empire with a prison in his novella, Ward No. 6. Hence the term “critical realism” was characterized by Chekhov and Tolstoy. Socialist realism,…

Horror stories are becoming increasingly popular in today’s era. The inquisitiveness of nature, behavior, and mysterious happenings in this specific genre have sparked interest in the unknown. When literary trends escaped the Age of Reason, literature was brought back to its traditional times when mysteries were fascinating. The most attainable model of creative narrative developed from the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages consisted of periods of crime, barbarism, works of witches, scientific…