Letteratura Inglese

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

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

The structure of novels
Defoe’s long narratives are fictional autobiographies always pretending to be “true” stories through the biographical details and memories provided by the protagonist. The structure of the novels is characterised by a series of episodes and adventures held together by the unifying presence of a single hero. Defoe’s method of

Analysis
In the General Prologue, Chaucer sets up the general structure of the tales and introduces each of the characters who will tell the tales. The characters who tell each of the tales are as important as the characters in the tales that they tell; a significant portion of the action of the Canterbury Tales takes place within the prologues to e

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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

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

Two men, in particular, contributed to its rise, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, with the periodicals “The Tatler” and “The Spectator”.
But at the beginning of this century, beyond “The Spectator” in England there were other important journals: “The Review”, “The Examiner”, “The Gentlemen’s Magazine” and “The Champion”.
“The Review” by Daniel

CHRISTMAS CAROL
True Humanity
Scholar Michael Patrick Hearn, in The Annotated Christmas Carol (1976; New York: Norton, 2004), notes that Dickens was a Unitarian. Unitarian Christianity, in Dickens’ day, focused more on morality and ethics than on traditional theology. Dickens wrote in one of his letters, “I have always striven in my writings to

In England, Blair entered the public school system, and was admitted to Eton College in 1917. For most students of this era, Eton led directly to higher education at a university, often Oxford or Cambridge. Blair shunned further formal schooling, and after leaving Eton in 1921, returned to India in 1922 to join the Indian Imperial Police. This work gave