Letteratura Inglese

He prefaces his actual reading with background information about the governess, the youngest daughter of a poor country parson from Hampshire, who at age of twenty answered an advertisement placed by a gentleman seeking a governess for his orphaned niece and nephew. The young woman, met with the gentleman on London's Harley Street. She was immediately i

Setting 
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The action takes place in London and its environs in the early 1700's on a single day. The story begins at noon (Canto I) at the London residence of Belinda as she carefully prepares herself for a gala social gathering. The scene then shifts (Canto II) to a boat carrying Belinda up the Thames. To onlookers she is as magnificent as

TOPIC: The picture of Dorian Gray
THEMES: 1) cult of the beauty
2) hidden identity and corruption of soul
SUPPORTING SENTENCES (OR PERIODS):
• “I’m jealous of the portrait you have painted of me, Basil, every mome

Celts
The Celts began to arrive from north-west Germany from 700 B.C. The Celts were remarkable to Mediterranean eyes for their height, fair skin, muscularity, blue eyes and blond hair. The Celts were technically advanced and they lived on fishing, hunting and agriculture. They were famous for their burial sites and for their hill-forts, built on th

The most important cases of criminality were administered by judges nominated by the king himself, so he had a complete control of the country. In 1086 William ordered an inquiry of the country where there was every piece of land, every house and every person. This was called the Domesday Book. The Normans lived in manors that comprised the baron’s or

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This scene takes place with Antonio, Bassanio, and a Jewish moneylender called Shylock. Bassanio asks for the money, and is received, but Shylock imposes a few stipulations. Due to Shylock's hate towards Christians, he feels the need to take advantage of the situation. Shylock adds to their contract that if the debt cannot be repaid

The lamb is described as the animal of innocence, like the creature in which there are no troubles, no tensions.
The lamb could stand both as a real animal as a symbol, in fact some natural details make you think of the real animal.
So the lamb is the symbol of God’s innocence and God’s love for his creatures.
In the second stanza the poet s

One night, returning home much intoxicated, he fancied that the cat avoided his presence. He seized him; when Pluto inflicted a slight wound upon his hand. He cut one of its eyes from the socket with a pen-knife.
Afterwards he felt into horror and remorse and he again plunged into excess like wine.
Then came the spirit of PERVERSENESS. This is o

The old English ballads include the best exciting poetry in the language. Most of them had been composed from 1350 to 1550, so the language is different from the modern English. Maybe the best ballads come from northern England and southern Scotland. The ballad is a narrative poem: it tells a story. The most popular subjects which appear are sex and vio

The novel became the most common form of fiction. The novel is fictitious: it narrates about imaginary events and characters although representative of real life.
The 18 th century novelist was the spokesman of the middle classe: he wrote in a simple way to be understood by the less educated readers. The story has to appeal the practical minded trad