Letteratura Inglese

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
Medieval French author ALAIN CHARTIER, who wrote this very famous ballad that inspired the English romantic poet Lord Byron

FRENCH FABLIAUX
In the “Le dix de perdrix” the women is a liar

WIFE OF BATH
Extroverted, not interested in sexual satisfaction but in money, she is bossy and dominant: she’s go

BLAKE
symbolism
The most famous images Blake uses to represent these two states are the lamb and the tiger. The LAMB is a symbol of the innocence of childhood. Some critics have pointed out that the infantile qualities of the lamb, related to the idea of weakness and innocence, refer also to the God of love and infinite forgiveness of the

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

Shaw’s masterpiece is “Pygmalion” whose title is inspired by “Metamorphoses” by Ovid, a Greek legend telling about a sculptor who scorns a statue of a woman and falls in love with it; Aphrodite (the goodness of love) transforms the sculpture into a real woman and, at the end, the artist marries his creation. “Pygmalion” is a play dealing with a bet betw

The lamb is described as the animal of innocence, like the creature in which there are no troubles, no tensions.
The lamb could stand both as a real animal as a symbol, in fact some natural details make you think of the real animal.
So the lamb is the symbol of God’s innocence and God’s love for his creatures.
In the second stanza the poet s

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This scene takes place with Antonio, Bassanio, and a Jewish moneylender called Shylock. Bassanio asks for the money, and is received, but Shylock imposes a few stipulations. Due to Shylock's hate towards Christians, he feels the need to take advantage of the situation. Shylock adds to their contract that if the debt cannot be repaid

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

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

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

One night, returning home much intoxicated, he fancied that the cat avoided his presence. He seized him; when Pluto inflicted a slight wound upon his hand. He cut one of its eyes from the socket with a pen-knife.
Afterwards he felt into horror and remorse and he again plunged into excess like wine.
Then came the spirit of PERVERSENESS. This is o