Prosper Mérimée Essays

  • Strangers: Friend or Foe?

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    As we humans go through out life, we are forced to interact in a world full of people. We quite often speak and do business with complete strangers and don’t give a second thought about what they did or said in that exchange of pleasantries. There are many stories such as Merimee’s Mateo Falcone, Street’s Grains of Paradise, and Tunis’s His Enemy, His Friend that focus on these brief encounters and how it can affect one’s feelings, thoughts, and ultimately actions. I believe that short and concise

  • Analysis Of Carmen: A Hip Hopera

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    Introduction Carmen: A Hip Hopera; a musical film starring Beyoncé as an inspiring actress. However, Carmen Brown was once Carmen Jones; starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in the 1954 version. However, the 1954 version of Carmen is not the original playwright, as there have been many adaptations to create relevance of the production. The first production of Carmen was written as a novel that was published in 1845, which there is a four-part compromise. However, the novel Carmen was

  • Romanticism

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    and Stallknecht, Newton P. pgs 70-73) Romanticism in English literature began in the 1790’s was the publication of Lyrical Ballads written by William Wordsworth an... ... middle of paper ... ...nse de Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, Stendhal, Prosper Mérimée, Alexandre Dumas (Dumas Père), and Théophile Gautier in France. Alessandro Manzoni and Giacomo Leopardi in Italy; Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov in Russia; José de Espronceda and Ángel de Saavedra in Spain; Adam Mickiewicz in Poland;

  • The 19th Century Critical Realism and Charles Dickens

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    Chapter I. Introduction In the 1830s, as the capitalist system had established and consolidated in Europe, the drawbacks of the capitalist society appeared, and the class contradictions also sharpened day by day. The capitalist mode of production "has left no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than calloused `cash payment'. It has drowned out the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical