Inglese Letteratura

The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is the change from an agrarian or maritime economy to an industrial (factory-based) economy.The term ‘Industrial Revolution’ could suggest a sudden and violent event.On the contrary changes began to be felt in Britain around 1780 and developed over a number of decades and as a continuing proce

Restoration prose writers can be divided into two groups:
1) PHILOSOPHERS
THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679)
He was son of a clergyman and after studies, become a fervent royalist who left England during the period of the civil war and the Commonwealth. Returned in England and than died at the age of 91.
His most important works are:
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Speaking about Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid writes “An Antigua, not as you would see know,” she wants to force the reader, who has no experience, to accept her “truth”.
Kincaid castigates the British colonialism because this was not only an economic expansion, but also an imposition of English lifestyle of political, social and legal system, of rules fo

1800-1900: BITTERNESS GROWS
The Act of Union linked Ireland to Britain and abolished the Irish Parliament in 1801. In Ireland there was the crisis of potatos that caused a famine and as potatos were the only resource for Irish People, a million people starved to death, many of them emigrated to the US. Many of this poeple organized riots and re

The reactions of the characters:
• King Claudius: he understands that Hamlet has discover his guilt. He is worried about what he could do and so he wants to send him in England with the help of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
• Queen Gertrude: she is anguished and worried for his son. She is also perplexed and amazed because she doesn’t know what

• Politic – The atmosphere of optimism (Victorian age) was tragically interrupted by World Wars. Shell-shocking was a mental disease which involved people who are scared for the bombs are dropping down.
• Philosophy – A new view of time was suggested by a great philosopher: Henry Bergson (with William James). Einstein discovers the relativity (noth

HUMOR.
Each Dickens’s characters have his sense of humor. We can find this in his characters, dialogue and in whole episodes. He’s able to see the comic aspects of lower – middle class and can be subtle and gentle but also paradoxical and sarcastic.
DICKENS’ LIMITATIONS AND MERITS
We can find some negative and positive as

A comparison between Milton and Dante comes automatically to mind. Both describe hell and are caught up in their religious ideas. But differences exist: in Divina Commedia the hero is the poet; while, in Paradise Lost, Satan is the hero and in these character Milton see himself. Dante gives up a picture of the society of his time, Milton talks mainly of