Inglese

Blair completed “Down and Out” in 1932, and it was published early the next year while he was working briefly as a schoolteacher at a private school in Hayes, Middlesex. Blair adopted the pen-name George Orwell just before “Down and Out” was published.
In December 1936, Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War

Lysander: Lysander is virtually indistinguishable from Demetrius, save the women who love them. He is in love with Hermia and plans to elope with her outside of Athens. They escape into the woods at night. He wants to sleep next to her, yet because of her chastity, he must sleep alone, away from her. Therefore, he is the first 'victim' of the magic love

• The short story is a prose fiction characterised by brevity and incompleteness.
• The novel is much longer; it includes a variety of characters and a variety of events.
A narrative usually consists of a story that it is build up on a fictional world with a setting(place and time), events and characters.
The plot is what keeps you reading

-The Ten-Hours Act, which limited the working hours to ten a day;
-Several Mines Acts, that regulated the employment of children and women;
-Factory Act, which forbad to assume anyone under 14, for a full-time job;
-Education Act provided a system of state primary schools;
-The Emancipation of All Religion sects, by which Catholics were

He doesn’t trust in God. He is pragmatic and his ideals are the “kleòs” (glory) and the “nòstos” (return trip to own country).
The Ulysses of Tennyson, like that of the Dante, is full of a religious feeling and he is condamneted only because he dares what man can’t dare.
The human being has to control his potentialities and his limitations to

Chapter two: Search for Mr Hyde
When Mr Utterson came home, he was unhappy. He ate and he took Dr Jekyll‘s will. There was written that in case of disappearance or death of Dr Jekyll, Mr Edward Hyde could have all his money. The lawyer decided to find out the truth. He decided to visit Dr Lanyon, another old friend of Jekyll. They talked a little an

He think that each dominant historical phase contains its antithesis. However the second coming is represented by a mythological shape: a human body and a lion head that can be interpreted as an allegory of the central power (in the Ancient Egypt, for example). Some have connected it with the figure of Stalin or Hitler in fact, although other authors b

The first transformation of the industrial production took place in the cotton fabric, thanks to the important role of the colonies. The East India Company imported high quality cotton and it was possible to import now material from America too.
The centre of cotton fabric moved from India to England and in the 1830 people who worked in this se

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