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Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 then he was sent to Oxford. As a disciple of Pater he accepted the theory of “Art for Art’s Sake”. In 1880 he began to write short stories as “The Canterville Ghost” and in 1891 the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. In 1891 Wilde was sent to prison for homosexual offences. When he was released, the went into exile in F

Modernism
The term Modernism refers to a movement which dominated the sensibility and aesthetic choices of the great artists. It implied an assumptions of introspection and technical skill. In painting Fauvism with its stress on the supremacy of color. In 1907 Pablo Picasso and George Braque began to develop Cubism. After we have the Abstract P

discouragement. Since many youths are not mature enough to cope with such problems, they
take to delinquency, drugs, vandalism, theft... moreover they compensate for their feelings by striking out against society, by revolting against adult authority, and finally, becoming involved in those antisocial activities by people of their own group. A very

Main works.
Blake’s works can be divided into 3 groups:
- his earliest works are his best known:
Poetical Sketches;
Songs of Innocence, in which Blake thinks that child is the symbol of innocence and he lives in a condition of freedom, happiness and imagination. Only the child and the poet can find the truth in everything because they

Edinburgh is a harbour city, became rich also thanks to its coalmines. But more returns also from agriculture, fishing, production of whisky, tourism, oil, methane from North Sea, and from companies specialized in electronics and technology.
The splendour of the centre of the city is testified from the ancient buildings: wonderful houses of the 5hun

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THE GREAT BATH
The art and engineering of the remarkable baths at Minerva's temple offer us a glimpse of Roman Britain at its most glorious. The complex housed was completed in the 4th century AD. An elaborate hypocaust heating system serviced a series of hot sweat rooms; swimming pools and rooms which cooled the pilgrims down. The Great Bath w

The reaction happens spontaneously. The Dr Jekyll realizes that Hyde is going to win over him and he will be never Jekyll again, consequently the only way to kill Hyde is to kill himself, so “Je Kill”, and he commits a suicide.
The important element is the door of the internal garden of the laboratory. A door which is always locked and only Jekyll a

O Wedding-Guest! this sent both been
Alone on a wide wide sea:
So lonely 'twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
At first the young man doesn’t want to listen to him, but the story is remarkable indeed, and the listener - who, of course, represents you, the reader - soon falls captured by the building suspense, respond