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

• Health→ He soon began to suffer respiratory illness (tuberculosis and continuous Haemorrhages).
• Love→ He married Fanny Osbourne, and American lady separated by her husband : his parents didn’t accept this marriage.

Features and Themes

• Novel as evasion from everyday life into adventure.
• He was a bohemian writer rejecting

Il puritanesimo scatenerà la guerra civile contro l'anglicanesimo. All'inizio trionfa il puritanesimo ma alla fine i puritani sono costretti a migrare in un nuovo paese.
Giacomo I creò la "Union Jack". "union Jack" era l'unione di Irlanda, Scozia e Inghilterra. Però Questa era molto instabile perchè c'era differenze religiose e un forte ass

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

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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• Education→ Aristocratic public school (Eton), then he entered in Oxford University where he was expelled because of a pamphlet “The necessity of Atheism”
• Personality→ he was eccentric and Flamboyant, despised social convention. He was labeled “Mad Shelley”. He was really generous. He suffered of mental anxiety, melancholy, crises of dejection an

Percy B. Shelley: OZYMANDIAS

This is a Petrarchian sonnet.
We have 3 speaker: the poet, the traveller and the faraon.
After line 8 we have the description of the passions.
Il potere causa: passioni, egoismo, arroganza, violenza, ambizione, tirannide e disprezzo.
Il tempo e la natura distruggono la vanità d...

Allevato nella religione protestante, Wilde studiò alla Portora Royal School di Enniskillen ed al Trinity College di Dublino, dove si distinse come latinista e grecista e vinse una borsa di studio per il Magdalene College di Oxford. Qui fu sensibile a varie influenze: il cattolicesimo di Newman, che lo interessò come critica alla religione della maggio

• 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

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