Letteratura Inglese

THEMES
The chief themes of the book are the craving of power that makes the man do cruel things, the inclination of the man for overworking the weaker and the less intelligent and the degeneration of the revolution that becomes dictatorship.

CHARACTERS
* Old Major: he was a twelve-year-old pig, quite stout with a wise and benevolen

Plot
John Harker, a young lawyer, was sent in Transylvania by Mr Hawkins to sign a contract with Count Dracula, who lived in an isolated castle situated on a mountain.
Before he arrived at the castle, he stayed for a period in a small village situated under the mountain. In this village he noted a strange comportment of the villains, which

After Mina’s best friend Lucy came to visit her in the town of Whitby many strange things happened.First, there was a hreat storm, and then that night Mina found Lucy on a bench with something black with red, shining eyes bending over Lucy’s body.After that night on the bench, Lucy got increasingly ill. Arthur asked Dr Seward for help, and Dr Seward c

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

There is no record of Shakespeare’s activities during the so-called “Lost Years” of 1584-1590, but we know that in 1587 he left Stratford for London, where he became an actor and a playwright. In this period he seems to have been associated with several acting company, but, the closing of the theatres because of the bubonic plague, allowed him to devote

SUMMERY:
This work consists of four books, each dealing with the various adventures of Lemuel Gulliver:
• BOOK 1: To sustain his family, Lemuel Gulliver accepts to sail on the “Antilope” as a ship’s surgeon and he leaves Bristol on the 4th May 1699. After six months, because of a storm, he lands alone upon the shore of an island, that he di

III ATTO
Poco dopo, però, l’amicizia che univa Antonio e Cesare si scioglie poiché Cesare, come dice Antonio, “ha scatenato un’altra guerra contro Pompeo. Ha fatto e ha reso pubblico il suo testamento. Di me ha parlato di sfuggita, e quando – costretto - mi ha rivolto un elogio è stato avaro di parole, freddo e di malumore”. A questo punto assi

In December 1936 Orwell went to Catalonia to report on the Spanish Civil War, and then he joined the militia of the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification).
In 1941 he moved to London and in 1943 he became literary editor of “Tribune”, a socialist weekly. Throughout these years, he began to write “Animal Farm”, which he completed in 1944(but it

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

OLIVER
TWIST
By Cherles Dickens

AUTHOR: Charles Dickens
TITLE: Oliver Twist
TOPIC: Oliver Twist

THEMES:
-the starvation suffered by children
-the ill-treatment suffered by children
-the behavior of the rich men with the orphans~~...