Inglese

DAVID COPPERFIELD
Born after his father’s death, D C spends some years with his mother and the devoted servant Clara Pegotty but then the marriage of his mother with Mr Murdstone and the arrive into the house of his sister Miss Murdstone brings a change into his life. David is soon sent to a boarding school near London and when his mother dies

Nature for Hemingway and Kerouac
For Hemingway the man has to fight against nature, he can’t overcome it but he can see his limits, instead for Kerouac nature is a place far from the chaotic modern cities and where we can find freedom.

Hemingway’s hero
There are two kinds of hero in Hemingway:
• One is the outdoorsman, he isn’t

PLAYS
During Shakespeare’s time, it was possibile to copy the works of other writers without legal consequences for the absence of copyright. Even Shakespeare borrowed the plots of his works from different kinds of sources. In spite of that the original material was transformed with his poetry, assuming new values and meanings.
Since Shakespeare

Characterisation Characters: presented from the inside and through their actions. They are isolated,phisically(Crusoe) or socially (Moll Flanders) in their struggle to earn a living or to survive.
Defoe: the father of the English novel; who represents a new social class. His narrative technique was original and became the basis for the development

She went to England, in Yorkshire where lived her uncle, Mr Arcibald Craven, that she didn’t know. During the voyage to England she was with an officer’s wife, then, when she arrived there, there was a woman to meet her. She was Mrs Medlock, the housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor, the home of her uncle. They went by train and they travelled all the day.

Early Victorian novelists: Charles dickens is the most representative literary figure of the Victorian age. He is the first truly urban novelist. Many of his novel was set in London, and in them he captures the incredible vitality of life in the city, as well as the squalor and deprivation that many of its inhabitants were forced to endure. He wrote ab

His career can be divided in three periods:
- in the first period he composed poems like “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso”.
- In the second part of his life he wrote social, religious and political tracts about education, divorce and other themes and he started his famous poem “Paradise lost”. He also wrote 17 sonnets.
- And in the third part h

Reality and vision
In English Romanticism prevail the poetry because with her the poet can express emotions and feelings. Infact imagination has a primary role, it allowed to exceed reality. The poet was mediate between man and nature, he can give voice to the ideals of beauty, truth and freedom. The nature is venerated too. It was regarded as the e

He keeps a journal cataloguing his activities, which include building a fort in which to sleep. He is very concerned that he will be discovered, either by indigenous people, or by Europeans, and he does not want to be surprised or caught off guard. He disguises his fort by walls and vegetation, and builds a ladder to get over the barricades. He a