Inglese

Early Victorian novelists: Charles dickens is the most representative literary figure of the Victorian age. He is the first truly urban novelist. Many of his novel was set in London, and in them he captures the incredible vitality of life in the city, as well as the squalor and deprivation that many of its inhabitants were forced to endure. He wrote ab

• The protagonists all share some features: they are all weak, fearful, afraid of what changes and they’re slaves of their familiar, moral, cultural, religious and political life.
• The rule of the author is very important in these stories, because Joyce compels the reader to go beyond what can be seen, beyond the usual aspect of things and to disc

Tom Jones → picaresque novel (picaro= someone who lives a dangerous and exciting life and thanks to whose boldness everything is solved), so episodic story where the society is satirized. 18 books (21 years-before Tom and Shophie’s love story-English countryside, 10 days-what comes after the event-wanderings across England, 23 days-what happens after th

They agreed that the winner would take a part of the looser’s lands. Old Hamlet killed old Fortinbras, and Denmark took possession of a part of Norway. Now young Fortinbras,son of the dead king of Norway, has decided to invade Denmark to recover the lands lost by his father. At this point the ghost appears again. Again it was about to speak, but when t

• DORIAN GRAY: he is a beautiful young man who has delicate features, fair hair and looks like made of ivory and rose leaves. At first he is a simple and beautful person. He was wonderfully handsome, with scarlet lips, honest blue eyes and golden hair. His face has the purity and the candour of youth that inspired trust.
• LORD GEORGE FERMOR: Henry’

Con la profezia delle streghe comincia il lavoro per l’ambizione di Macbeth: lui invita il re nel suo castello e scrive una lettera a sua moglie per informarla.
Lei escogita un piano per uccidere Duncan e spazzare i dubbi di Macbeth con la sua determinazione.
Atto 2
Duncan viene assassinato e la colpa è buttata sui servi del re che dormivano