In « The Ant and the Grasshopper » by W. Somerset Maugham‚ Tom receives a huge inheritance from an old woman he married after years of idling and taking money from his brother George‚ who has always worked very hard. Their way of working and their way of spending money differentiate the two brothers‚ George and Tom. Unlike Tom who is a fun lover‚ George works hard. He embodies the "Protestant work ethic"‚ "[George] had never taken more than a fortnight’s holiday [ ] [and] was in his office every
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peculiarities of characters by Somerset Maugham. The objectives: • To study and analyze William Somerset Maugham’s biography and its influence on his works • To study literarature about William Somerset Maugham • To study and analyze the concept „character” • To study and classify the ways of character chracterization • Interpretate and anlyse the main characters in Maugham’s novel „The Moon and the Sixpence” The reaserch question: • What makes William Somerset Maugham’s characters so variouse
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This extract from “The Moon and Sixpence” by W. Somerset Maugham is written by vivid‚ ironic language. It is about a poor artist‚ whose paintings were considered by contemporaries absurd. And they were much surprised when dealers from Paris and Berlin began to offer for them the huge sums. Strickland didn’t make impression on people‚ for islanders he was just a “beach-comber”‚ differing from others only that he drew strange pictures. It is impossible to tell that he formed relationships with people
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Literature in 1972 and was a presenter of BBC Radio 4 ’s ’Bookshelf ’ from 1986 to 1987. In 1996 she started her own publishing company‚ Long Barn Books‚ editing and publishing a quarterly literary journal‚ Books and Company‚ in 1998. She won a Somerset Maugham Award for I ’m the King of the Castle (1970); the Whitbread Novel Award for The Bird of Night (1972); and the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross (1971)‚ a collection of short stories. Her other novels include Strange
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ANALYSYS OF “THE HAPPY MAN” I’m going to analyze a novel “The Happy Man” by Somerset Maugham‚ a well-known English novelist‚ short-story writer‚ playwright and essayist. William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris‚ educated at King’s school in Canterbury and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. He was one of the best known writers of his time as he was master of short stories. The story starts with the narrator thinking and telling the reader about his attitude to giving advice
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In W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Appointment in Samarra” and The Grimm Brothers’ “Godfather Death‚” The reader is exposed to two classic stories on Death‚ sharing both difference and similarities. Although the stories share the same character‚ it is through the authors’ use of language‚ plot and ending that it is evident to notice Death is not always portrayed in one specific form. In “The Appointment in Samarra‚” the author successfully manages to portray Death in a negative way by carefully
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When I was about fifteen‚ I read Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham and I was mesmerized. At the time‚ I was living in a town of a 1‚000 residents in western Colorado where my father was a minister. My older sister‚ Alice‚ had died in an automobile accident and I was struggling to make sense of that age old question: “Why do bad things happen to good people?” I don’t remember now how I got my hands on Of Human Bondage or why I started reading it‚ but once I did‚ I couldn’t put it down.
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STYLISTIC ANALYSIS William Somerset Maugham «THE ESCAPE» William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. The trend he belongs to is realism with slight ifluence of expressionism. A novelist‚ a dramatist‚ and a short-story writer‚ he gained an outstanding reputation with his prominent books “Of Human Bondage”‚ “The Moon and Sixpence”‚ and “The Razor’s Edge”. The observer of the first decades of the 20th century‚ Maugham is deeply critical of the morals
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"A String of Beads" is a short story written by W.Somerset Maugham in 1943. William Somerset Maugham is the world-famous novelist. He`s universally acknowledged as a short-story writer. His fame in this realm began with the book of short stories entitled “the Trembling of the Leaf” (1921) and continued with increasing momentum. His skill in creating vivid and original human characters is combined with beauty and refinement of language and style.It is actually a rather satirical story. The story
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20 Reasons for Decline in Reading Habit W. Somerset Maugham said‚ “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all miseries of life.” Reading habit has been a great help in developing knowledge. But today‚ in an age when browsing the net‚ playing with funky handsets and passing non-stop SMS seem to be the order of the day. The internet boom‚ interactive medium of images‚ TV and the silver screen filling the minds of the modern youth‚ taking majority of their
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