one of the Hector Berlioz great orchestra; through its movements, it relays the message of an artist’s self-destructive passion towards a woman. In “Symphonie Fantastique” vividly displays the artist’s various issues are including obsession, dreams, tantrums, in addition to moments of tenderness, suicidal visions, murder, ecstasy as well as despair. “Symphonie Fantastique” is a reflective self-portrait of Hector Berlioz. Berlioz was a great artist, born in a small town near the French Alps; his father
In our world’s history there was the Dark Ages and, like common opposites, there’s a light age, but this was called The Renaissance, or “rebirth”. Although there wasn’t any new discovery during the Renaissance era, but a re-discovery of ideals that was forgotten in the past. During the Dark Ages and for some of the Renaissance era, the Catholic Church was the main ideal, then a new idea appeared that originated from the Greeks. Now these ideals were alive at the time when the Greeks believed in polytheism
In the novel ‘Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress’, the author Dai Sijie shows off the transforming power of literature in many of his characters. The power of Balzac's words greatly enriches the lives of the three main characters. The discovery of Western Literature enables them to be uplifted from the dullness of their everyday life. The Little Seamstress was quite possibly the character who was most affected by the literature. Luo had wanted to change her with the literature, to make her
Often referred to as the Latin-American Edgar Allan Poe, Horacio Quiroga echoes some of Poe’s characteristics with his mysterious and horrifying short stories. Writing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Quiroga became known for these morbid, cruel, and perverse stories that were actually mirrors of his own life. One of his short stories, “The Decapitated Chicken,” seems to follow the traditional model of the short story as a literary genre. Furthermore, although very terrifying
Cymbeline, they either place before us at one glance both the past and the future in some effect, which implies the continuance and full agency of its cause, as in the feuds and party-spirit of the servants of the two houses in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet; or in the degrading passion for shews and public spectacles, and the overwhelming attachment for the newest successful war-chief in the Roman people, already become a populace, contrasted with the jealousy of the nobles in Julius Caesar;—or