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W.S. Maugham "The Moon and the Sixpence"
Introduction

The theme of the present paper is „Character depiction in the novel The Moon and the Sixpence” of William Somerst Maugham. The reason for writing a paper on this topic are numerous. First, the literary works of W.S. Maugham are very famous and popular all over the world. He is recognized as a master of short-story, novel a plays writing. Another reason is that author’s characters are considered to be an intresting resouce for studies. Maugham often is represented as a narroter, re-telling unexpected stories of people he has known or watching events unfold from a close distance. His characters are very variouse, they are very different and anyone can find somthing close for himself. It is intresting to analyse them. The author of this paper will analyse the characters from the novel „The Moon and the Sixpence.” It will be considered the types of charecter and in which way they were described by Maugham. The aim of the paper is to study the basic peculiarities of characters by Somerset Maugham.

The objectives:

• To study and analyze William Somerset Maugham’s biography and its influence on his works
• To study literarature about William Somerset Maugham
• To study and analyze the concept „character
• To study and classify the ways of character chracterization
• Interpretate and anlyse the main characters in Maugham’s novel „The Moon and the Sixpence”

The reaserch question:

• What makes William Somerset Maugham’s characters so variouse and different from other characters?

The Hypothesis:

W.S. Maugham’s characters are very different, which makes the style of writting incredible and intresting to the readers.

The Methods of reaserch:

• Selecting the information about Maugham’s biography and works
• To study the ways of character characterization
• Analyses of the main characters in the novel „The Moon and the Sixpence”

The outline of chapters:

The paper contains three chapters. The first chapter

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