Leo Tolstoy

Man in connection with the general life of humanity appears subject to laws which determine that life. But the same man apart from that connection appears to be free. How should the past life of nations and of humanity be regarded—as the result of the free, or as the result of the constrained, activity of man? That is a question for history. (Epilogue 2, Ch. VIII)

Anonymously narrated, the novel is set during the Napoleonic wars, the era which forms the backdrop of Tolstoy’s painstakingly detailed depiction of early 19th century Tsarist Russia under Alexander I: her archetypes and anti-heroes. Through his masterful development of characters Pierre, Andrew, Natasha, Nicholas, Mary and the rest, War and Peace examines the absurdity, hypocrisy, and shallowness of war and aristocratic society. It all comes to a climax during the Battle of Borodino. Initially Tolstoy’s friends including Ivan S. Turgenev and Gustave Flaubert decided that the novels’ ‘formlessness’ weakened the overall potential for its success, but they were soon proved wrong. Almost one hundred years after his death, in January of 2007, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1878) and War and Peace were placed on Time magazine’s ten greatest novels of all time, first and third place respectively.
Childhood: days of idyll, Moscow and Kazan UniversityLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on 28 August 1828 into a long line of Russian nobility. He was the fourth child of Countess Maria Volkonsky (who Tolstoy does not remember, as she died after giving birth to his sister Mariya in 1830) and Count Nicolay Ilyich Tolstoy (1797-1837) a Lieutenant Colonel who

W Shakespeare

William was born in 1564. We know this from the earliest record we have of his life; his baptism which happened on Wednesday, April the 26th, 1564. We don’t actually know his birthday but from this record we assume he was born in 1564. Similarly by knowing the famous Bard's baptism date, we can guess that he was born three days earlier on St. George’s day, though we have no conclusive proof of this.

Brothers and Sisters.
William was the third child of John and Mary Shakespeare. The first two were daughters and William was himself followed by Gilbert who died in 1612 and Richard who died in 1613. Edmund (1580-1607), sixth in the line was baptized on May the third, 1580 and William's oldest living sister was Joan who outlived her famous playwright brother. Of William’s seven siblings, only Judith and four of his brothers survived to adulthood.
William's Father.
From baptism records, we know William's father was a John Shakespeare, said to be a town official of Stratford and a local businessman who dabbled in tanning, leatherwork and whittawering which is working with white leather to make items like purses and gloves. John also dealt in grain and sometimes was described as a glover by trade.
John was also a prominent man in Stratford. By 1560, he was one of fourteen burgesses which formed the town council. Interestingly, William himself is often described as a keen businessman so we can assume he got his business acumen from his father. In the Bard's case, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree at all...

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WHAT IS PAIN

Pain in one sense is a four word. It is a sense of our thought that creates with mind and brain. It is what
we think and proceed with the thought in serially. It is the concept of mind and thought that we feel and
 goes with it. Just the way of taking it in our daily life is different. Actually pain is what we feel and care
much more about it. We get pain, when the planned we made did not come into success. Suppose if i.m longing for a bike with certain demand with the parent but in the meantime parents did not fulfill it. This
time we get pain cause our mind had already setup with the thought of getting a bike and had found many ways to utilzes it with fun and enjoyment. We ourselves had create a film in the mind with different characters in the film with the bike. The bike is the main and all the others are fitted in our brain with different role. Everyday we make different feature with the bike and we make the bike a real goal. We set many characters, environment, and different places with the bike but if it comes with failure of achieving bike.
Then we got hurt and we get pain. Our all the dreams that we create with the bike got broken and thus
we get a big pain of many days that we made. Cause we already set our mind.There are so many ways
to get pain in life. One of the main thing of getting pain easily is that we depend ourselves on other. Our thought are depended on other. We rather care more for other than look ourselves. Like if i give something to a person. We automatically expect thanks from him. we already set up our mind that if i give something
 to someone, he has to show gratitude to me instead if he did not respond it with what we hope. We get
pain. So main thing is our expectation depends on other. On the other hand if we did not keep such expectation with other than we cannot get pain. He is not giving the pain to me but i am taking the pain.
It's me that creating pain. Pain is what we feel and make it with our thought. If we are stable and our determination are firm than nobody can give us pain.
So lets think about it and promise that whatever
the situation may arise, i will be stable and my determination or goal will not shake with minor causes.

a new deserted world

well what i meant to say about the world of today is a deserted one in the sense of many outcoming and the present events and crisis that  is happening in our everyday life. Though different people have different aspects of life. They have their own experience and views that made them a concept to define about everything. This is their right of living and can choose the way they think that is right by their mind. You see the world of today is full of spreading different thought that somewhere accepted by the different mind with the same way of living style. We have scientist, doctor, engineer, pilot, labour, etc with different proffession and according to the way of their proffession they have different way. This way makes a person thought with different opinion about the world. In fact the world today is slowly going back to the adam's age. You see the ladies of today or the gentlemen of today, wanted the shortcut in everything. They want a speedy life to relieve away from tension which is always try to sneak from the mind as soon as it get a idle mind. They are afraid of this and makes the mind a clumsy one or a blind one. I n that blind eyes there are nothing which makes  the world a beautiful or a full one. You see everywhere the people's thoughts are captured by the new worldly invention and leading them away from this lovely world. This makes the world a lonely where there is no spectators around us.