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- 2. Contents Biography of the author “The Moon and Sixpence” – summary “The Moon and Sixpence” –
- 3. William Somerset Maugham 25.01.1874 - 16.12.1965 Born in Paris, in a family of a lawyer, who
- 4. After war continued writing; his work of a scout was reflected in a collection of short
- 5. The Moon and Sixpence tells the story of Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker who abandons his
- 6. Stroeve knew Strickland and his paintings, he worshipped him, considering his paintings to be а sensation
- 7. After travelling a while the author came to Tahiti, a lofty green island, where Strickland painted
- 8. Due to the fact that Ata couldn’t go to the town and buy canvases to him
- 9. “The Moon and Sixpence” The Moon and Sixpence (1919) is a short novel by William Somerset
- 10. According to some sources, the title, meaning of that is not explicitly revealed in the book,
- 11. Describing Charles Strickland, Maugham begins with what is a super ordinary man: "He was null. He
- 12. Thus we see Strickland's empty soul. And one day Strickland just leaves. Something must have silently
- 13. In meeting after meeting, Strickland proves himself to be nothing else but empty of normal response:
- 14. He is so dry it makes you laugh. But then you realize that Strickland is seriously
- 15. The narrator continues to reason with Strickland, but in vain, there is a no end to
- 16. Strickland becomes a paradox : "He was a sensual man, and yet was indifferent to sensual
- 17. Like a sculptor, Maugham reveals Strickland's character piece by piece: For choice he sat on a
- 18. Expressions, characterizing Strickland: to tell smb to go to the devil she can go to hell
- 19. Global Message “Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please
- 20. The Topic “Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the
- 21. The quote given above reveals all the sense of art and it’s being understandable not to
- 22. Stylistic analysis of “The Moon and Sixpence” William Somerset Maugham is known as a short-story writer,
- 23. Metaphor “When a man falls into the water it doesn’t matter how he swims, well or
- 24. “His life was strangely divorced from material things, and it was as though his body at
- 25. Simile “I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep- rooted instinct of
- 26. “He slept very quietly, without a movement, so that he might have been dead, and he
- 27. Exaggeration “You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur. You lie down on the ground
- 28. Personification “We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.” |Dirk Stroeve|
- 29. Capitalization “They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to
- 30. Reiteration\ Anaphora “He bombarded me with questions. He sat me down in a chair, patting me
- 31. “Then he told me, in a trembling voice, with the tears pouring down his cheeks, how
- 32. Quotes We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. (friends) To write
- 33. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not
- 34. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
- 35. Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be
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