Inglese

Heart of darkness
Frame: Marlow tells his friends on the Thames his adventures in Africa. Kurtz: a learned man, sent by the Company for civilization and freedom, he has become a kind of God for the natives. He is like Marlow but he stayed for a long time in Congo, so he has changed (alter-ego). Marlow sees only savagery and solitude: nature is being

Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herselfs, itselfs, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
Neither…or: not A and not B
Both: A and B + verbo all’infinito
Either…or: A or B
Present simple: si usa per situazioni permanenti, azioni abituali e con gli avverbi e le espressioni di frequenza.
Present continuous: are+ verb –ing s

WAR POETS: group of poets who experienced the fighting and wanted to represent modern warfare to awaken the conscience of the readers to the horrors of the war. “The soldier” of Brooke → death caused by war seen as a chance for immortality and glory; “Glory of women” of Sassoon → ironical poem; “Dulce et decorum est” of Owen → tells the horrors of war

He gained fame thanks to the novel Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874. Thereafter he devoted his life to writing. After his marriage, he settled in Dorchester and became a successful novelist and distinguished man of letters.
His second great work of fiction was The Return of the Native, followed by a sequence of four tragic novels: The Mayor of Cas

• Disraeli: (conservative) proposes a lot of democratic reforms;
• Peele: judiciary system reform;
• Walpole: he had to face the Irish question, with Gladstone;
• Gladstone: he had to face an increasing social discontent of the Industrial Working Class (led to the Christian Socialistic Movement) and the problem of women (1921: right to vote)

Separated by the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and the cultural differences of their homelands, the two great authors never met. However, Poe and Baudelaire seem to have a "teacher-student" or "father-son" relationship that is based on one's interpretation of the other. Charles Baudelaire began his career by translating Edgar Allan Poe's works into his

algorithm: an informal but precise description of a computational method for solving a problem.
ambient lighting: effects caused by a general background level of brightness.
analogue = analog; continuously varying rather than digital; an A-D (Analogue-to-Digital) converter is a sampling device, and a D-A (Digital-to-Analogue) converter is a pl

• Davanti a nomi che indicano le parti del corpo o l’abbigliamento
• Quando si indica una categoria di oggetti o persone
• DAVANTI A NOMI NUMERABILI
THE si usa davanti a nomi che indicano:
• Strumenti musicali
• Fiumi e mari
• Catene montuose
• Gruppi di persone
• Nazioni al plurale o che hanno Kingdom o Republic
THE

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