Lingue

Inglese: in Canterbury Tales the pilgrimage to Canterbury can be read as an allegory of the journey towards celestial city.
Allitterazione: figura di suono che consiste nella ripetizione di sillabe o consonanti in inizio di parole contigue.
Alliteration: is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words or words which ar

The Knight
The pilgrims are listed in relative order of status, thus the first character is the Knight. Chaucer describes the knight as a worthy man who had fought in the Crusades (page A50) to serve his king well. The Knight is a perfect and gentle man who loved truth, freedom, chivalry and honour, as we can read in line 3 and 4. In fact he ex

From 1878 to 1881 Oscar Wilde became well known for being well known despite having any substantial acheivements to build on. He insinuated himself into the class of people he labelled as "the beautiful people", wore outrageous clothes, passed himself off as an art critic and aesthete, and built a reputation for saying shocking things and doing ammusing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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