Inglese

ENGLAND IN 1930 + JAZZ AGE, POVERTA’ E PURITANISM - In 1930s England knew several social transformations. The growth of population decreased and women became progressively more independent. In the north, industry declined and expanded in the south: so, in England began a drift of the population from north to south. Managers and professional people

OSCAR WILDE:
A major spokesman for the Aesthetic movement in the late 19th century and an advocate of "Art for art’s sake", which proposes that beauty has no utilitarian value and is independent of morality, is Oscar Wilde. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, on October 16, 1854, his father, Sir William Wilde, is a surgeon, and his mother, Jane El

From an early age he showed an interest in mathematics, mechanics and physics. At nineteen, Training for an engineering career, he attended the Technical University at Graz, Austria and from there went to the University of Prague to study philosophy. At Graz he first saw the Gramme dynamo, which operated as a generator and as electric motor, and he conc

Byron: a way to reach freedom.
Shelley: universal power, it has a moral essence, it is revolutionary because you can reach freedom. Keats: goes over sense and create a medieval world that doesn’t exist, like in his ballads.

TASK OF THE POET:
Blake: is a visionary man gifted with imagination. The prophet of imagination. He warns man a

The pressure for reform
After the French Revolution, Britain had turned politically conservative. Industrial regions of
the country were not so well represented, votes had to be declared publicly, was often subject to
bribery or intimidation. These factors gave rise to the working class Chartist movement. The Chartists' demands contained six

Features
• USE OF TIME: it moves backwards and forwards through memories
• DIVISION IN 2 SECTIONS, in each of them is narrated a generation. The two parts are linked by the presence of Heathcliff, who is in both sections: 1. the first section is centred on Heathcliff and Catherine. The story is romantic and imaginative; 2. The second one is

Focus on the text: Jane Eyre
The novel is given an autobiographical feel through use of the first-person narrator that allows the reader to see things from Jane's point of view. Her way of describing the events in her life is very much mediated by her feelings and emotional responses. When the novel first came out it was a shock for some reader

In the novels “David Copperfield” and “Oliver Twist”, Dickens attacks one or more social evils: debtor’s prisons, workhouses, repressive education, capital punishment and conformism masked by religion and justice. In all these novels, the greatest victims are the children either individually or in groups, often ill-treated, exploited in the hardest jobs

Indusstrial and the progess are the two causes of alteration the ecosystem; they have comported all successive problems.
The alteration of the balance of an ecosystem can have catastrophic effects on the environment such as pollution, desertification, deforestation,extinction of animal and plant species.

THE ALTERATION OF ECOSYSTEMS
It

THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1775 – 1783)
The British controlled the 13 colonies which formed the basis of what is now known as the USA.
They virtually ran their own affairs and resented having to pay taxes and have their laws and trade subjugated to a distant English monarch.
The rebellion began in 1775 with the Boston Tea Party,