Lingue

He was often compared with the Italian Romantic writer more representative in european culture: Alessandro Manzoni. Even if they share lots of theories, they have also some differents points of views: the most important one they share is the definition of historical novel, an invented story sets in a real historical context. And the story obliged them t

ZU DEM TEXT „ÜBER MICH SELBST“ –H. BÖLL-

Im Text „Über mich selbst“ behandelt Böll seinen Leben vom Ende des Ersten bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit einem humoristisch-sarkastischen Ton.
Er wurde 1917 in Köln geboren. Er beschreibt dieses Jahr als das „schlimmstes Hungerjahr“. Sein Vater war gegen den Krieg und er verfluchte de...

The special reporter who wrote this article is an English man called Charlie Slatter. He knew more about the Turners than anyone else. The author describes Mary’s sad childhood and her life before she married Dick Turner. She was very poor and her father drank a lot. When Mary was sent to school, her life changed. She was extremely happy at school and s

Die zweite Strophe ist eine negative Kritik gegen die Deutschen und Heine beschreibt sie ein pedantisches Volk.
Der Ton ist ironischer, aber ein sarkastischer Ton versteckt Sorge und Enttäuschung.
Die letzte Strophe ist eine Mahnung: Blitz bedeutet Krieg und Krieg schadet den Menschen.

ZU DEM TEXT „DEUTSCHLAND. EIN WINTERMÄRCHEN“

Heart of Darkness is based on Conrad’s own experience as the captain of a West African river steamer in 1890. Conrad reveals the story of Marlow, the protagonist, who travels up the Congo to search of Kurtz, an ivory trader. Marlowe’s voyage from the coast takes him past signs of Europe exploitation of the natives towars the “heart of darkness”. Where K

He married Anne Milbanke, but after some months Anne left London, demanding a separation from her husband. There was a great scandal, so Byron left England and spend the rest of his life at first in Switzerland, near Shelleys, and after in Italy in Venice, where he met Countess Guiccioli, who was his mistress for 4 years. He settled in Ravenne, where to

Britain was the first modern country to be seriously concerned with a population explosion, locked as it was on two small island.
This population explosion, serious itself was aggravated by the collection of these names of people in the new urban centers resulting from the factory system. Infact farming was abordared in favour of factory work and ma

After seeing that the statue’s eyes were full of tears, the swallow asked him why and the Happy Prince explained to the little swallow that he had been living for all his life in the palace of Sans-Souci, without the knowledge of anything a part of happyness, but, after his death, he had been put on the top of that column where he could see the ugl

french army invaded the austrian netherlands and was about to invade Holland. The danger became more evident
with the beginning of the expansions of Napoleon all over Europe. England was continously at war with france,
and had 2 important naval victories with the Admiral Nelson, until Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815.
Meanwhile the soc

When George and his father move to Tunbridge Wells, the quarter where Lucy and her family lives, she finds that her relationships with her family, with the unconventional Emerson and with her supercilious fiancé Cecilio pull her between the social proprieties of her upbringing and the spontaneous promptings of her heart. At the end she is convinced b