Letteratura Inglese

Robinson è uno spirito libero che decidi di viaggiare. Anche se il padre è contrario.
In uno dei suoi viaggi robinson naufraga su un isola deserta. Egli è l'unico sopravvissuto.
Sull'isola rimane per 28 anni. Comunque Robinson dopo un pò di tempo impara a vivere sull'isola: addomestica gli animali, pesca, costruisce case. Inoltre salva

The novel deals with the theme of the double in human nature; in fact both good and evil are in each human being. In the story good Is represented by Dr Jekyll and evil by Mr Hyde. Their physical aspect reflects moral characteristics: Jekyll has always been virtues and so he is handsome, his body is well-proportioned and his hands are white and well-sho

ACT OF SUPREMACY
Reason:
Henry VIII wanted to divorce his first wife.
Anticlerical resentment against the rich clergy
Effect:
Monasteries were dissolved and their estates annexed by the king.
THE WIFE AND THE CHILDREN OF HENRY VIII

Catherine of Aragon Mary I
Anne Boleyn

CIVIL WAR

When the Civil War broke out there were two opposing forces:
1. the Royalists ( also called Cavaliers, because they had long hair), strong in the north and west, they included conservatives, aristocracy, lords, the gentry and the church of England.
2. the Parliamentarists, supporters of the Parliament, ( they were also c

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

Run-On line (Enjambement): When a line ends in the middle of a phrase and (the meaning break) comes in the next line.
Assonance: The repetition of the same vowel sound can colour part of the poem with that vowel quality.
Alliteration: The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words or words which are close together.
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When his mother moved to London, Bernard joined her years later; there he attended public lectures and joined debating societies.
In 1882 he met Henry George, an American socialist writer who initiated him into socialist theories. He read a volume of Karl Marx’s in French and joined the Fabian Society. He rejected the idea of any revolutionary and

AFTER THE WAR
Ten years after the end of the war, all the olde values had benn swept away: there was nothing to believe in and nothing to fight for. To give a voice to this common dissatisfaction, it developed a general protest agains society. The declin of the British Empire and the Cold War generated a sense of uncertainty and angouscius. The

When these Germanica ribes arrived in England, they destroyed many Roman cities (exept London who became the mosto impostant commercial centre) and cancelled the Roman civilization and language. The Celtic civilization survived only in Wales, Scotland, Cornwall and Ireland. Although (sebbene) the Anglo-Saxons brought thei pagan religion, Christianity co

Paradise Lost
Is a religious epic poem. The epic is a very ancient form of poetry, originating in an age before writing, like Odyssey, Iliad and Bewulf. Paradise lost takes place in the universe: in Heaven, Hell and Eden, the caracthers are God, Satan, Christ, Man and the angels. Although Milton was familiar with the Copernican cosmology he bas