Lingue

Hester’s origins:
Hester lived in Old England. Now her paternal home is a decayed hose of grey stone, with a poverty-stricken aspect, but retaining a half-obliterated shield of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility (her family was not rich, but they were noble). Her father had a bald brow and reverend white beard, that flowed over

When Chillingworth arrives in Boston, he decides to take his revenge and, suspecting Dimmesdale, begins to torment him.
Hester leads a solitary life with her dauther Pearl in a cottage on the outskirts of the town and becomes a needlewoman; her work is appreciated and her submission to her fate wins her respect of the community. She is hard-working

She was therefore a living presence speaking to all those who were able to enter into intimate relationship with her and understand her language.It was then through a fusion with nature, and through a quite contemplation of her beauty, that man could rediscover the image of God and become aware of his own inner life, since Man and Nature fitted togethe

THEMES

Their first concern was with nature. Poets were filled with pleasure when they contemplated the external natural world. They often regarded nature as a manifestation of a divine power on earth and also sensed a correspondence between landscapes and man’s feelings and values.
The second unifying idea was imagination, a creative f

Later, however, the tyranny and the imperialistic aims of France put an end to this country’ s influence.
The Industrial Revolution –which saw the rise of mass society and loss of individuality- together with scientific discoveries and and tecnological improvements, contributed to favour, by contrast, a general desir to transcend reality and escape

NATURE→one of the main sources of inspiration of poets, in fact a new sensibility towards Nature can be found.
Romantic poets turned to Nature also because they din’t feel at ease in the society of their time. They lived in
isolation enjoying the loneliness of the countryside far from urban life, focusing on the emotional response

Britain’s towns were the basis of Roman administration and civilisation. There were three different kinds of towns.
1) The coloniae, peopled by Roman settlers;
2) The municipia, where the inhabitants were given Roman citizenship;
3) The civitates, which were the old Celtic tribal capitals.
Emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall t

The novel was the best achievement of the 18th literature because it’s the form which most fully reflects the taste of the time, the new tendency of culture and the exceptions of the reading public . In this century the novel, whose primary criteria were independence from the tradition of past thought and faith only in the individual experience , alway

Immersed in a hypnotic and gothic atmosphere (unnatural events, sense of mystery, and horror, symbols and ghosts) the extraordinary events narrated leave the poem open to many interpretations.
One man speaking with another man of rather personal and emotional things is a very Romantic idea, which remembers Wordsworth's definition of the poet (“he

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the story of a long sea voyage told by an old mariner condemned to wonder the world repeating his story as a punishment for a terrible crime he has committed. The mariner tells how his ship, after crossing the equator, was trapped by ice in the Polar Regions. For some days the s