Letteratura Inglese

• Marriage→ he married Constance Lloyd and they had 2 children, but wasn’t an happy relationship. They divorced because in 1886 Wilde was accused of homosexuality by the father of his lover, who was lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labour.
Features and Themes
• He was an eclectic personality. His output cover

CHARACTERS
-The old King(he is a great sinner)
-The young King(he is poor, then becomes a King)
-The slaves(-of his dreams-they must work to live)
-The Chamberlain(he tries in vain to make the King wear the king’s raiment)
-The old Bishop(he’s wise and gives good advices to the King)

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OLIVER
TWIST
By Cherles Dickens

AUTHOR: Charles Dickens
TITLE: Oliver Twist
TOPIC: Oliver Twist

THEMES:
-the starvation suffered by children
-the ill-treatment suffered by children
-the behavior of the rich men with the orphans~~...

Even science couldn’t help the population any more: it has provided certainties so far, but now, with the new and destabilizing theories by Sigmund Freud, the thought there could be something men can’t govern and dominate, as dreams, totally scared scientists and public panel. His theories deeply affected any kind of relationships, from the parents-chil

It is a very realistic and detailed passage. There are a lot of epithet thanes, kennings, adjectives like strong, gallant and fearless. The Anglo-Saxon soldiers were brave, generous, courageous and loyal. The betrayal was a serious fault.
☻Parafrasi
vv. 9 I suoi coraggiosi seguaci trovarono poco da ridire sulla sua audace avventura, anche se g

It’s composed by 4 stanzas and the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.
There is a metaphor and the tenor is the terrible condition of poor people, the common ground is the imprisonment and the limitation of imagitation and the vehicle is the mind forg’d menecles.
There are repetitions in lines 1-2 and 4 and an anafora in line 5-6-7....

È questa un'isola davvero singolare. Consiste per lo più di sabbia marina, ed è lunga circa tre miglia. In nessun punto la sua larghezza supera il quarto di miglio. La separa dalla terraferma, a mala pena riconoscibile, l'estuario di un fiumiciattolo che defluisce in mezzo a un intrico di canne e di mota, dimora prediletta della gallinella d'acqua. Come

LISPETH

Lispeth is a Indian girl, whose parents turned Christian and baptised her after the bears destroyed their harvest. When they died of Cholera, Lispeth stayed at Christian mission. She grew into a beautiful girl.
In her habits Lispeth differs in various ways from the white people. For example, she likes taking very long walks, u...

There are some methods to depict consciousness because of it often combines past-present-future.These methods are for example flashbacks fade-out or slow-up , the use of similes and metaphors or particoular forms of punctuation.
Interior monologue
The basic and the most used method is the use of “interior monologue” that is differ

Perverso, brutale, cupo e immorale, questi furono alcuni degli aggettivi con cui venne definitivo il libro alla sua prima apparizione sul mercato editoriale, e proprio per questo dobbiamo tributare grandi onori all'autrice per averle sapute riprodurre e rappresentare nonostante fosse fin da fanciulla vissuta praticamente segregata nella canonica del pad