English Literature

Introduction

This paper describes and analyzes the concepts of man and self, man and society, man and nature from the perspectives of two renowned names of English Literature: Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet and Adeline Virginia Woolf. We will first present a biography of each of the authors that will be followed by their views on man and his role in the context of self, society, and nature. The paper will describe the incidents and phenomenon that led to the formation of their opinions about these subjects.

Biographies

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Jean Baptiste Poquelin, who became Moliere, was born in Paris January 15, 1622. The date of his birth is not very accurate, only that of his baptism seems certain. Author played since the creation of the Comedies of French, tutelary figure and symbol of French theater and troupe, concentrated in its name Moliere memory, renewal and youth of the collection of the Comedies of French. It goes beyond the history and anecdote. If he has not seen the Comedies of French, his life as a playwright in the creation prepared (Jones, 4).

Son of John Poquelin, Maison du Roi, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who later took the pseudonym of Moliere, is an excellent education at the College de Clermont (the future Lycee Louis-le Grand), may be supplemented by some law. But in 1643, he gave up the future citizens as guaranteed enjoyment inherited paternal care to associate with nine actors under contract, including Madeleine Bejart, and found the cast of "The Illustrious Theatre." After a difficult start in Paris, Moliere and his actors, 1646 to 1658, run through the French provinces as the touring companies of its time. Moliere's troupe was authorized to appear before the Court in 1958. Under the protection of Monsieur, brother of the King, the actors settle in the Theatre du Petit-Bourbon, which they share with the Italian comedians led by the famous Scaramouche. This is, after initial trials in the provinces that Moliere had its first successful author, with Precious ridiculous in 1659 (Cruz, 176).

He died on 18 December 1829 at the age of 85 at his home in the Museum. His remains are thrown into the common grave of the Montparnasse cemetery. As mentioned above, some authors are the sign of his misery. Cuvier wrote a "eulogy" which he did not hesitate to ridicule and distort the transforms ideas of Lamarck, to which he was violently opposed. This praise, rated "academic exhaustion" was read at the Academy of Sciences on 26 November 1832. It was also translated into English and it is likely the origin of the misconception that Lamarck attributed the transformation of animals in their "will" and "desire". In perhaps a bitter and dramatic twist of irony, during a performance as Argan in his last play The Imaginary Invalid (1673), a comedy of hypochondria and quackery, Moliere himself suffered a massive hemorrhage and died on 17 February 1673 (Jones, 4). Due to Armanda's and King Louis XIV's plea to the church for a proper Christian burial, ...