Lingue

Walter Peter
He is considered the priest of the Aesthetic Movement (Aestheticism). The Aestheticism developed in England during the last decades of the 19th century. It originated in France and then it was brought in England. It was a rejection of the Utilitarism and materialistic philosophy. It stressed the importance of the spirit of art, an

Romanticism consist in the opposition of sentiment to reason. They place great importance on imagination: it allowed the poet to re-create the external world of experience. Nature has its own life and speaks to whoever can understand its language. Nature is a “living force”. It became a main source of inspiration. The task of the poet was to meditate be

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Following Burke’s theories of the horrid and the sublime (see p. 381), the Gothic novelists discovered the charm of horror and the power of sensation, now connected with the grotesque and the supernatural. Although their characters were mainly stereotypes and their heroines all embodied the myth of the persecuted maiden, in the fashion begun by Richards

The Domesday book: in order to acquire knowledge of his new dominion, William sent commissioners throughout England, to record every piece of land, every house, and every person or animal of each manor, town and shire in England. This survey was called the Domesday Book.
Court of justice: there was a separate Bishop’s Court of justice, which m

Around the 700 B.C. the Celts began to arrive from north-west Germany.Among the Celts there seemedto be equality between the sexes.
The Romans decided to invade Britain for two reasons:the British Celts were aiding the Celts of Gaul(Francia)against Rome;and because Britain was a very productive land.
JULIU CAESAR invaded Britain in 55 B.C.and ,

INGLESE - T. Gray

Elegy begins in a country churchyard, where the author describes what's happening around him.
It's the end of the day, and the ploughman's herd, with their owner, go back to home, while the night is falling, making the author surrounded by darkness. The tomb of the forefathers makes remember to him the hard...

Forsake
Freeze
Get
Give
Go
Grind
Grow
Hang

Have
Hear
Hide
Hit
Hold
Hurt
Keep
Kneel
Knit
Know
Lay
Lead
Lean
Leap
Learn
Leave
Lend
Let
Lie
Light
Lose
Make
Mean
Meet
Mistake
Mow
Overcome
Pay
Put
Read
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1. Abide 2. Arise 3. Awake 4. Be 5. Bear 6. Bear 7. Beat 8. Become 9. Begin 10. Bend 11. Bet 12. Bid 13. Bind 14. Bite 15. Bleed 16. Blow 17. Break 18. Breed 19. Bring 20. Broadcast 21. Build 22. Burn 23. Burst 24. Buy 25. Cast 26. Catch 27. Choose 28. Cling 29. Come 30. Cost 31. Creep 32. Cut 33. Deal 34. Dig 35. Do 36. Draw 37. Dream 38. Drink 3

Trough his characters, Huxley analyse two opposite point of views, which are the ones of the two most important characters of the novel:
Mustapha Mond is one of the Ten World Controller; he represents the new society’s point of view. You can synthesize his values and beliefs in the World State's motto “Community, Identity, Stability”, that emphasiz