Inglese

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

The rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDECDE and it marks the subdivision of the poem.
The stress pattern is a iambic pentametre. The syntax structure is complex because he speaks about his problem. There is the main clause and 6 level of subordination. The language is formal, restrained, dignified and abstract. It isn’t an emotional sonnet.

The son

1) Ordinary accounts with a low interest rate, which are virtually tax free;
2) Investment accounts with a much higher, taxable rate of interest.
MERCHANT BANK
Merchant banks, such as Morgan Grenfell, are commercial organisations which not only carry out the main functions of a commercial bank, but they also specialise in providing services

A. home trade is the buying and selling of goods carried on within the borders of a particular country. It may be either wholesale or retail.
1. wholesale trade is buying and selling of goods in large quantities.
2. retail trade is the sale of goods in small quantities direct to the consumer
B. foreign trade is the exchange of goods between

The most important writers of this period are Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, first with a social comedies, second for the reality of work and the criticism of Victorian values.
George Bernard Shaw was influenced by Ibsen in which he saw a new face of theatre, an instrument for social and political change. Another characteristic of Sh

SIMPLE PRESENT
SIMPLE PAST
PRESENT CONDITIONAL
CAN
COULD
COULD
MAY
MIGHT
MIGHT
Nei tempi diversi da simple present, past and present conditional, CAN e MAY vengono sostituiti da:
• TO BE ABLE TO→ capacità, abilità. Alternative a CAN.
• TO BE LIKELY TO→ possibilità, probabilità. Alternative a MAY.
• TO

BRAM STOKER. DRACULA
Narrativa (strutturato come romanzo epistolare). Molto diverso da film! Dracula è un nobile della Transilvania e, anche se la trama del film più o meno rimane, manca completamente la parte attiva delle sue vittime inglesi, Lucy e, soprattutto Mina. Quella che dovrebbe essere “la sua puttana” (parole di Van Helsing) per la ...

The heroine, Pamela Andrews, is a maid whose master makes unwanted advances towards her. She rejects him until he shows his sincerity by proposing a fair marriage to her. In the second part of the novel, Pamela attempts to accommodate herself to upper-class society and to build a successful relationship with her husband.
The title of this novel is s

It was a complex and contradictory era: it was the age of progress, stability, great social reforms but it was also characterised by poverty, injustice and social unrest. The Victorians promoted a code of values that reflect the world as they wanted it to be, not as it really was, based on personal duty, hard work, respectability and charity. In thi per

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• cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
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• elected for five years by direct universal suffrage
• the Parliament normally meets in Strasbourg
• powers :
- legislative power; it can make laws
- budgetary powe