Letteratura Inglese

Plot
John Harker, a young lawyer, was sent in Transylvania by Mr Hawkins to sign a contract with Count Dracula, who lived in an isolated castle situated on a mountain.
Before he arrived at the castle, he stayed for a period in a small village situated under the mountain. In this village he noted a strange comportment of the villains, which

di stanche granate che cadevano lontane indietro.
Il GAS! IL GAS! Svelti ragazzi! - Come in estasi annasparono,
infilandosi appena in tempo i goffi elmetti;
ma ci fu uno che continuava a gridare e a inciampare
dimenandosi come in mezzo alle fiamme o alla calce...
Confusamente, attraverso l'oblò di vetro appannato e la densa luce verd

IV. Sotto quegli scabri olmi, all’ombra di quel tasso, dove la zolla si solleva in molti tumuli che si sgretolano, ciascuno steso per sempre nella stretta cella , dormono i rudi progenitori del villaggio.
V. Il freddo richiamo del mattino profumato d’incenso, la rondine che cinguetta dal capanno di foglie, l’acuto suono del gallo o l’eco del corvo d

• A growing interest in humble and everyday life.
• Great attention to the country.
• The rediscovery of the art and popular traditions of the Middle Ages (Gothic vogue: horrific, irrational, supernatural).
• A child was very pure, because he wasn’t still civilisation and he was closer to God.
• The Imagination was a way to express emot

Shelley è contro il re e i principi e attacca la cultura del tempo.
Il re ( Giorgio III) muore nel 1819 e viene sostituito dai figli.
È contro la politica agricola perché la “CORN LAW” imponeva il pagamento dei dazi per il grano proveniente dall’America; gli inglesi morivano di fame ed erano costretti a comprare il grano inglese che comunque ave

In the 18th century with the revaluation of supernatural it acquires a positive mean in contrast with reason and rationality of the Enlightment.

Themes
The main themes of the author in this period are:
• Individual relation between Man and Nature
• Imagination as a way to escape from the real World
• Artist as an original crea

Seven percent of British students go to private schools called ‘public’ schools. Public schools are expensive and the students must pay their own fees*. There are more than 250 public schools, including Eton. Because public schools usually have smaller classes and better facilities*, they are considered to offer higher-quality education than most state

Robert Browning’s great works are ‘The Ring and the Book’ and ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’. The extract we can read is ‘A heart… too soon made glad’, which belongs to the ‘My Last Duchess’. The setting is the castle of the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II D’Este and he spoke about his forst wife, who he killed after 3 years of marriage (1561). His wife’s

Henry Fielding
He began his career as a playwright where he immediately his taste for cutting satire on English society. He attacked the system of justice in England. The “licensing act” put an end to his theatrical career. He turned to novel writing and became on of the greatest writers of the century. He detested the sentimentally and hypocr

THE PLOT:
Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, manages to create a human being, by joining parts selected from corpses. The result of the experiment is revolting and horrible; the Monster becomes a murder and, in the end, he destroys his creator. The story is not told chronologically and it is introduced to us by some letters that Walton, a young explor