Inglese

Heart of darkness
Scenario e atmosfera – molta nella narrazione è ambientata nel cuore della giungla africana, che, malgrado (despite) gli sforzi (efforts) dei commercianti d’avorio europei, resta impenetrabile. L’oscurità regna ovunque, come se la luce della civilizzazione avesse illuminato il mondo. Lo scenario è quello del fiume Congo, e le

Then came the spirit of Perverseness (he did stupid or terrible things simply because he knew that he should not do them). This was one of the primitive impulses of the human heart.
One morning he put a noose about its neck and hung it. On the night of this day, he woke up by the cry of the fire. The house was in flames, the destruction was complete

His father was in debt, and so the Dickens family resided with him in Marshalsea Prison. Charles found work at household tasks and took a room for himself on one of the poor streets of London at the age of twelve; he was also sent to school for a few more years before he became a clerk. He moved up from there to become a stenographer at several newspape

Animal Farm is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based major events in the book on ones from the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the Spanish

Napoleon took care of the education of some puppy, isolated from other animals. They costituted his secret police. But developed conflicts between Napoleon and Snowball, in fact Snowball wanted to extend revolution also to other farms, while Napoleon is annoy because he’d like to rule alone. Meanwhile animals toiled together, took like inspiration Boxer

In 1827 he published his first volume of writing and continued to write poems, tales and essays.
After eight years, Poe married his cousin Virginia, a girl of thirteen, in order to secure a home for his aunt, the mother of his wife. Unfortunately, Virginia died when she was only twenty-five years old.
In 1837, Edgard Allan Poe spent eighteen mon

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