“Requiem for a Dream” was written in 1978 by the American writer Hubert Selby Jr., whose works are considered one of the most significant in national American literature of the 20th century. The work tells about the fate of four heroes who are trying to cope with the pressure of…

In the history of culture, the era of the turn of the century (1790-1860s) was called the era of romanticism. American romanticism arose as a result of the American bourgeois revolution of 1776-1784 as a response to it. A revolution is something rude, destroys the beautiful, and an industrial revolution…

After the publication of the evolutionary theory of C. Darwin and the spread of the ideas of Darwinism, attempts were made to transfer the patterns discovered by C. Darwin in living nature to human society. Some scholars have suggested that in modern human society, the struggle for existence is the…

“Oratory is the art of practical verbal influence, providing us with the ability to expertly use the word as an instrument of thought and belief. The field for rhetorical activity is boundless: how to organize your speech to the teacher? How to make a declaration of love? how to speak…

The question of how a person lives on earth can be called eternal. He worried people for many centuries. Different answers were given to this question. They depended on the era, current problems of the time, the level of knowledge about the world and about man. The primitive man faced…

The trilogy includes the novels “42 parallel”, “1919” and “Big money”. They give a generalized picture of American life in the first three decades of the 20th century: “42 parallel” – the rise of the labor movement in the United States; “1919” – the first world war and the impact…

Shakespeare did not accidentally choose the Prince’s heroes. Rejecting the obscurantism of the Middle Ages, humanists have by no means neglected the precious thing they saw in the legacy of this era. Already in the Middle Ages, the ideal of chivalry was the embodiment of high moral qualities. Real knighthood…

Monetarism is one of the most influential trends in modern economic science, pertaining to the neoclassical direction. He considers the phenomena of economic life mainly from the perspective of the processes occurring in the sphere of monetary circulation. The term “monetarism” was introduced into contemporary literature by Karl Brunner in…

For more than four centuries, the work of William Shakespeare has remained relevant to the reading public around the world. In his works, Shakespeare embodied the ideas of the late Renaissance – the ideas of humanism, humanity. Shakespeare’s early plays are imbued with a life-affirming beginning, and later ones are…

There is no more popularity of the play in the history of art and literature than the popularity of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. For more than 300 years, this tragedy has been played on the stages of theaters around the world. People of different cultures are looking for answers to questions…