Letteratura Inglese

Chapter two: Search for Mr Hyde
When Mr Utterson came home, he was unhappy. He ate and he took Dr Jekyll‘s will. There was written that in case of disappearance or death of Dr Jekyll, Mr Edward Hyde could have all his money. The lawyer decided to find out the truth. He decided to visit Dr Lanyon, another old friend of Jekyll. They talked a little an

Vago lungo ogni strada privilegiata
Vicino a dove scorre il privilegiato Tamigi,
E vedo in ogni faccia che incontro
Segni di debolezza, segni di dolore.
In ogni grido di ogni uomo,
In ogni grido infantile di paura,
In ogni voce , in ogni proibizione,
Sento le catene forgiate dalla mente.
Come il grido dello spazzacamino~

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

The poet analyses also the process which must follow for makes a poetic opera.
First of all the poet lives a sensory experience, then he makes emotion. In a second time, in tranquillity, with the memory, kindred the same emotion and at last he writes a poem. In this passage we can be read the theme which caracterize the Romantic poetry: an exaltatio

He was deeply religious.

BRITISH CHARACTERS

Mrs Moore : was an old woman who had just arrived in Chandrepore from Britain. She had come to India to see her son, Ronny who was the city magistrate.
Adela: was Ronny’s fiancée, they were engaged. She had gone to Chandrepore to meet Ronny and she wanted to know “real India”.
Ronny:

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The expression “Industrial Revolution” usually refers to that period in which England had an economic development from 1760 to the middle of the 19th century,and it sealed the Britain’s transformation from an agricultural to an industrial country.
During this revolution , new sources of power (for example coal

Then Alice woke up, discovering that it was only a dream, and sometimes a nightmare.
The language used is very simple, because the will of the author was to give this book as a present to a little child, and so, very often, he invented strange words like “rocking-dragonfly”, a mix between a rocking-horse and a dragonfly....

As regards natural elements, we can find: “Sylvan” on line 3, “flowery” on line 4, “leaf” on line 5 and “dales of Arcady” on line 7. There is also an expression referring to PASSION: “wild ecstasy” on line 10. Also SOME PEOPLE are mentioned: “bride” on line 1, “foster-child” on line 2, “deities or mortals” on line 6 and “men or gods” on line 8. In this

The king was elected by the witan composed by the most important nobles or thanes from the seven kingdoms. They were organized in villages. Every village was governed by the thane whose task was to make everybody obey the law and to guide his man to battle. There were no prisons, the criminals where mutilated, hanged or submitted to a trial by ordeal.

PROSE (pag.55)
Anglo-Saxon prose developed thanks to King Alfred who ordered to write the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. He was a very learned man and founded a school for nobles and he himself translated “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum” by Bede and De Consolatione Filosofiae by Boezio. Then we have to remember Aelfric who translated from the Old Te