Letteratura Inglese

Allevato nella religione protestante, Wilde studiò alla Portora Royal School di Enniskillen ed al Trinity College di Dublino, dove si distinse come latinista e grecista e vinse una borsa di studio per il Magdalene College di Oxford. Qui fu sensibile a varie influenze: il cattolicesimo di Newman, che lo interessò come critica alla religione della maggio

Even science couldn’t help the population any more: it has provided certainties so far, but now, with the new and destabilizing theories by Sigmund Freud, the thought there could be something men can’t govern and dominate, as dreams, totally scared scientists and public panel. His theories deeply affected any kind of relationships, from the parents-chil

During the reign of queen Victoria between 1837 1901 there was the first reform act. The queen was the example of way of life. It was a period of material progress and social reforms. Chartism was a working-class movement and it want social reforms and the extension of the right to vote. In 1851 the Great Exhibition made manifest Britain’s leading polit

THE PLOT:
Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, manages to create a human being, by joining parts selected from corpses. The result of the experiment is revolting and horrible; the Monster becomes a murder and, in the end, he destroys his creator. The story is not told chronologically and it is introduced to us by some letters that Walton, a young explor

In literature we can see a clear break with the previous ideas: the presence of reason, common sense, realism and formality of the Augustan Age are replaced with the individualism, free expression of personal feelings and emotions and imagination as source of inspiration that characterized the Romanticism.
The English Romantic period was dominated b

Seven percent of British students go to private schools called ‘public’ schools. Public schools are expensive and the students must pay their own fees*. There are more than 250 public schools, including Eton. Because public schools usually have smaller classes and better facilities*, they are considered to offer higher-quality education than most state

BLAKE
symbolism
The most famous images Blake uses to represent these two states are the lamb and the tiger. The LAMB is a symbol of the innocence of childhood. Some critics have pointed out that the infantile qualities of the lamb, related to the idea of weakness and innocence, refer also to the God of love and infinite forgiveness of the

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
Tormented by thirst, the other members of the crew hang the albatross around the mariner's neck as

Wordsworth was born as the second of five children in Cockermouth, Cumberland—part of the scenic region in northwest England called the Lake District. With the death of his mother in 1778, his father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. But in 1783 his father, a lawyer, and right-hand man of the most important (and despised) man in the area, died leavi

He married Mary Hogarth, but they separated after 22 years. When he was 46 he felt in love with an 18 years old actress. But this fact, for his Victorian mind, was often a source of doubt and depression.
he was interested in London slums and he was very good at describe character.He died in June 1870.

He wrote 14 novels as:
Oliver Twis