What is a synonym and how can it be used?
Synonyms are very useful when we want to express ourselves precisely. Instead of repeating the same term several times, we can use a synonym and save a lot of space on our page or in the text. The synonym dictionary is a great tool...
Fate or free will?
In ancient times, it was believed that every even the smallest event in a person's life is "planned" much earlier by some higher power. Fate - that is blind fate, destiny faced by man and whether he wanted it or not...
12 Labors of Heracles
Here are the 12 labors of Heracles: he strangled the lion of Nemea, killed the Lernaean hydra, hunted the boar of Erymantea, caught the Cerynaean hind, exterminated the birds from the Stymphalian marshes, cleaned the stables of Augeas, defeated the Cretan bull, captured the mares of Diomedes, won the miraculous...
Does destiny rule our lives?
How good it is to finally understand that life only gains meaning and meaning when it goes according to one's own needs, the rhythm of one's own breathing, and above all, one's own idea of it - and not needs, rhythm...
So that time does not eclipse and oblivion ...
It must be admitted that someone who decided to answer the question contained in the above topic has a lot to choose from. The wealth of material - or at least the output of four epochs and eighteen centuries - may be called a fair...
The grotesque is the favorite means of expression…
The grotesque is an aesthetic category, a kind of satire. It consists in a strong deformation of the reality of the world presented in the work. It often contains elements of caricature and fantasy. The geopolitical situation of Poland during the interwar period was very...
The Olympic Games and Panhellenism
The competitive nature of the male elite found expression in the Olympic Games, a religious festival associated with the great sanctuary of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greek pantheon. The temple district of Zeus was located in Olympia, located in the southwest of...
Jacek Soplica – a new type of romantic hero
The main character of the song "Pan Tadeusz" is Jacek Soplica, who devoted his whole life to the fight for the freedom of his homeland. In his youth, he was a favorite of the local nobility, a typical brawler and bully. He was even invited by the local magnate Stolnik...
Analysis of the situation based on a fragment of Homer's "Iliad" (Pryjam u Achilles) and the confession of Father Robak...
A literary meeting of enemies, i.e. an analysis of the situation based on a fragment of Homer's "Iliad" (Pryjam u Achilles) and the confession of Father Robak from Adam Mickiewicz's "Pan Tadeusz". Both authors raise in their works the problem of guilt, punishment and forgiveness. Both...
A new type of hero in the programs and literary practice of positivism
The new tasks set for literature and the corresponding literary genres resulted in the emergence of a new type of hero in positivism. Tendentious literature had to provide patterns of attitudes and attack negative behavior. Hence, the basic character type was...
The realism of Pan Tadeusz
"Pan Tadeusz" is a realistic picture of the Polish nobility of the time. The Polish nobility was not a uniform class, so we meet representatives of the aristocracy in the work, the proud and conceited Stolnik Horeszka, to whom - according to the poet's biographers - Mickiewicz gave...
Artistic values of Pan Tadeusz
"Pan Tadeusz" gained the name of a national epic because, like the great epics of antiquity, it gave a broad picture of the life of society, and showed the fate of individual heroes against the background of important historical events, at a breakthrough moment for the nation....
The phenomenon of Sarmatism - characteristics based on selected works of Baroque literature
Sarmatism is a complex concept. It defined the morals and spiritual and mental culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the end of the XNUMXth century until the time of the partitions. This concept is also associated with a specific way of being, coarseness, exuberance of customs, ...
Characteristics of Russifiers
Polish education during the period of captivity was subordinated to the invaders. Their main goal was to denationalize Poles, and they started with children, because it was easiest to require obedience and discipline from them. The authorities of the Kleryków gymnasium wanted at all costs...
My reflections on the main character of the novella Lamplighter
When we meet the main character of the novella "Lighthouse Keeper", he is already an old man. Usually, old people have their own family, children, grandchildren and a home where they find rest after the hardships of life. Meanwhile, Skawiński had no one to...
What role does television play in my life?
We all like to watch TV. Today we cannot imagine the modern world without television. There are different shows and everyone likes to watch something different. We spend many hours in front of the screen, sometimes we don't really...
The theme of the eternal wandering Jew in Polish literature
The following essay concerns the motif of the eternal wanderer in Polish literature. But let's take a look at what it looked like from the beginning. Introduction - historical outline The most distant history of the Jewish nation, the nation chosen by God, has been recorded in the Bible. Lord especially...
Images of the countryside in literature
Ancient idylls about life in the countryside. Theocritus - Greek author of idylls Virgil - Roman author of works about life in the countryside, pastoral life, e.g.
Marcin Borowicz
Marcin Borowicz was the son of an impoverished nobleman. His parents wanted their child to gain knowledge, and in particular to learn Russian, which was the official language in this partition. As an eight-year-old, he was taken away from his family...
