Moon and Sixpence
The novel under the title “Moon and Sixpence” was written by Somerset Maugham who was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.
The analyzing extract from the book “Moon and Sixpence” runs about a life of Strickland, who devotes his life to the art forgetting about the ordinary life and ordinary requirements. Being a starving tramp he spends all his money for purchase of canvases and paints. His works are considered to be absurd but Strickland doesn’t even suspect that after his death they will be called a masterpiece.
“Moon and Sixpence” is of social-psychological genre. It can be considered to be social one as it reveals the theme of poverty and the fastidious attitude of people to men who are not like others. But at the same time the story can be considered to be psychological one as it depicts the psychological portrait of the protagonist of the novel.
The story is told in the first person narrative. Talking about the place we can definitely say that it happens in Tahiti as there is a mention of it in the text but it is difficult to speak about the time of the novel. There is a point of view that this story runs about a life of a real painter Paul Gauguin who lived in the 19th century and taking into consideration this fact we can refer the events of the story to the 19th century too.
The main theme of the text is the power of the art, its influence on the life of a man, the power of which makes him to renounce everything. The protagonist of the story is Strickland. Author reveals him as independent and unpredictable character. He is indifferent to everything except painting. He is concentrated on his art, though «Strickland made no particular impression on the people who came in contact with him in Tahiti». But the very people call his pictures absurd, they can’t make tail and head of it and the very painter is hold for a madman, talking
The analyzing extract from the book “Moon and Sixpence” runs about a life of Strickland, who devotes his life to the art forgetting about the ordinary life and ordinary requirements. Being a starving tramp he spends all his money for purchase of canvases and paints. His works are considered to be absurd but Strickland doesn’t even suspect that after his death they will be called a masterpiece.
“Moon and Sixpence” is of social-psychological genre. It can be considered to be social one as it reveals the theme of poverty and the fastidious attitude of people to men who are not like others. But at the same time the story can be considered to be psychological one as it depicts the psychological portrait of the protagonist of the novel.
The story is told in the first person narrative. Talking about the place we can definitely say that it happens in Tahiti as there is a mention of it in the text but it is difficult to speak about the time of the novel. There is a point of view that this story runs about a life of a real painter Paul Gauguin who lived in the 19th century and taking into consideration this fact we can refer the events of the story to the 19th century too.
The main theme of the text is the power of the art, its influence on the life of a man, the power of which makes him to renounce everything. The protagonist of the story is Strickland. Author reveals him as independent and unpredictable character. He is indifferent to everything except painting. He is concentrated on his art, though «Strickland made no particular impression on the people who came in contact with him in Tahiti». But the very people call his pictures absurd, they can’t make tail and head of it and the very painter is hold for a madman, talking