Inglese

1) clock time and physical setting began to be used. Time and place ceased to be vague concepts but were made tangible through the use of precise details.
2) Certain communicating qualities such as colour size extension became of primary importance
3) Attention was focused not only on outdoor settings but more and more frequently on “interiors”.

-Sybil Vane: an actress and the girlfriend of Dorian Gray.
-Sybil Vane' s mother: another actress. -Sybil Vane' s brother: Jim, a sailor .
-Francis and Victor: Dorian Gray's servants. This book is about Dorian Gray's life.
A day Basil Hallward proposed him to pose for a picture. Dorian accepted. So Basil made the picture: it was fantastic

Gulliver’s travels

Gulliver’s travels was published anonymously in 1726, under the full title : ‘Lemuel Gulliver’s travels into several remote nations of the world. Swift’s purpose, who had begun the work in 1720, was to denounce the emptiness and corruption of the society and to attack institutions and man in general.

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He was a disturbed person but he was also capable of profound and harmonious feelings. In fact he defended the Irish poor in many of his works, He also devoted a part of his money to charity and he found the St Patrick’s hospital for imbeciles.
Works
The battle of the books: Swift defended the ancients and he took the opprtunity to mock his m

- She gives voice to the small country gentry who was just below nobility: they didn’t go to work because they have an income from their lands, but they haven’t got any title. Her novels explore the world of the country gentry at the end of 18th century. People coming from other social classes appear in the novel, but they are not analysed deeply, they

HARD TIME:
A NOVEL OF DENUNCIATION

One of his most popular works is Hard Time written in 1854. This novel is a powerful accusation of some of the effects of industrial society.
Unlike romantic poets, that were used to describe nature and to ignore towns because they despised industrialization’s effects, Dickens writes novels of de

In Jane Eyre the heroine shows a courage and determination which contrast with Victorian ideas of female delicacy; such qualities were considered manly (masculine). Although her novels were not meant to be actual denouncement of social evil. The content inevitably highlighted injustices and social problems. All her heroines are women who have decided to

Structure: it is not based on a normal chronological sequence of events. The narration starts at the end of the story when a Mr Lockwood during the night at wuthering Height disturbed by the scratching of a branc, try to remove it, but he is touched by ice-cold fingers of the ghost of Catherine (ghotic element). Later Lockwood asks to his housekeep