Lingue

VICTORIAN PHILANTROPY
In the victorian period philantrophy became very important. It consisted in helping poor and miserable people with charitable deeds. Later philantropy was no more directed to poor people in an economical way, but to poor people in the moralistic code, such as the dissolute and the “fallen women”. The victorian family

MARY SHELLEY (1797 - 1851)
Frankenstein written in 1818 is post gothic, in fact there aren't medioeval castles, dungeons, dark lands. Besides ghosts were sopernatural or imaginary projections of a distorted perception, whereas Frankenstein's monster is a creation of science. In classical gothics dark villains enact

He wrote only to please himself and not to communicate his theories to his fellow beings, in fact he doesn't believe, on the contrary of the writers of the Enlightenment, in a didactic and moral aim for art. His pursuit of beauty is the tragic act of a superior being, inevitably turned into an outcast. The Wildean man-ideal is the dandy, which is an ar

Dickens belongs to the 1° generation of victorian novelists, so he speaks about his own time and about social changes. In particular he criticizes some aspects of society (law-workhouses), but he respects the structure and the political system in general, while the 2° generation novelists were consiouss of hypocrisy of their own time and they criticize

Thus there are two narrators. The first is the poet who recites the ballad, the second is the mariner who tells the story of his extraordinary voyage. But the presence of a moral at the end makes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner different from a traditional ballad. Imagination: like Blake and Wordsworth, Coleridge stresses the role of imagination. He di

Love, which is the basis of all his novels, and which is another romantic content, quite often ends in disillusion and failure, destroyed by institutions like marriage or by society and by Fate. Pessimism: the influence of the latter scientific discoveries and the reading of philosophers such as Darwin and Shopenhauer led him to work out a pessimistic

3) only poet is able to understand the message of nature and can give a response to it: he colour what he saw with his imagination, just to make more interesting nature, in order to explain it to other people
4) poetry isn’t an immediate production, but it is the union of imagination to what he saw with his sense, in particular sight
• The solit

This was a terrible experience for his life, when he comes back he suffers from a fever and he was psychologically destroyed. Story of a man who has to face the solitude, theme of the double.
The narrative technique is complex, because the story opens with a first person narrator, who is not the protagonist but a listener, the true narrator is Mar

1.3 Le triomphe de la révolution vénézuélienne page 5
1.4 Vers l’indépendance page 6
1.5 L’indépendance totale page 7
1.6 Un songe irréalisé page 8
Chapitre 2: La Bolivie physique page 10
2.1 Les reliefs page 10
2.2 Le climat et la végétation page 11
2.3 Les ressources naturelles pag

The opening of the book takes us to a remote jungle on a deserted island when a group of 6 English boys aged 5 to about 12 have been marooned from an aeroplane that had fled the scene of war during an imaginary third nuclear world war.
Setting
The setting is strikingly simple, almost as to indicate some tabula rasa kind of existence, or a soci