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“Pride and Prejudice” describes the small world of a few families living in a country village with their routine of visit, balls, walks and gossip. Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine. Through various incidents the events develop into happy conclusion: good marriages, settlement of awkward situation, clearing up of all uncertainties. Elizabeth Bennet is cle

THEMES: Hamlet is a tragedy of REVENGE and a play of life and death, of man’s ambiguous relation and also about melancholy and doubt. It is through Hamlet’s struggle to act wisely, that the concept of MAN’S COMPLEX NATURE is illustrated. A major question for man is the relation between APPEARANCE AND REALITY and the EXISTENTIAL IDEA all that individual

EDGAR’S HORROR Edgar’s horror stories, or “arabesque”, are particular. They are often full of precise, physical details and reasoning. He analyzes the mentality of madmen with the care of a psychologist or of a detective.
EDGAR’S DETECTIVE STORIES “Murders in the Rue Morgue” is considered the first detective story. Before Poe the act of murder itsel

The early 1900s were a period of originality in art. The most important examples were Matisse, Picasso and Chagall. The developments in the arts were expression of revolt and emancipation. Although the people of Europe had to rebuild their lives after the war, by the 1920s and 1930s, a large number of people in Britain had more money and spare time to e

Limitation(import)may concern either the quantity of imported goods or the type of product and are often meant to protect domestic manufacturing or reduce the demand for foreign-made products. Quotas is maximum number of items which can be imported; are fixed by the Department of Trade and Industry. When a trader wants to buy abroad goods which are subj

It is divided in six territories: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the northen territory, and capital territory.
The capital city is Canberra, and the other cities are: Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.
Has got an highest mountain, Mont Kosciusko, the longest river is Murray-darling.
The most important

Un romanzo vero. Vero perché dai sentimenti genuini, mai forzati; vero come la bellezza e la poesia della quotidianità, quella fatta di un cielo azzurro o di un tramonto mozzafiato. Vero come è vera la fantasia di un bambino, ma soprattutto vero perché in realtà ispirato ad una storia originale. Se non fosse per l'aspetto fisico di Anne, "Anne of Green

There were also some differences in the religion: town merchants belonged to the Low Church while country gentry belonged to the High Church. In the Low Church there were the heirs of the Puritans, also called Methodists or Presbyterians, and they had three ideals: God and Bible (everything was seen through the Bible), Work (the idleness is the worst si

• on the economy: it is no longer based on trade, agriculture and grazing but on industries; they don’t disappear, but the most important source of money is the industry.
• social background: we have tow new classes that didn’t exist before: the industrial middle class, who is called also the capitalists and whose only interest is money, and the ind

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
- LAKE DISTRICT, FRENCH EXPERIENCE, PERIOD WITH COLERIDGE 1797-1807
- LYRICAL BALLADS, PRELUDE (BIOG), POEMS IN 2 VOLUMES, THE EXCURSION
- LYRICAL BALLADS – 1798: ROMANTIC, REF TO MIDDLE AGES; REALISM; POETRY IS THE REFLECTION OF EMOTIONS RECOLLETED IN TRANQUILLITY; THE POET HAS THE GIFT OF IMAGINATION,