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J. & traditions:
Admired aestheticism...interest in form.
Litterature: means to promote awareness(consapevolezza), but art should be indepe. of other disciplines & moral aim

Role of Artist:
His task: neither to teach nor to convince, but to make people aware of reality, through their own subjective perception
Form he sough

En 1804 il se proclame imperator des françaises et roi d’ Italie. Il tente de soumettre les anglais mais en 1805 il perde contre leur puissante flotte maritime à Trafalgar ainsi pour soumettre l’ Angleterre il institue un blocus commercial mais ce blocus n’ est pas efficace parce que les alliés continuent les commerces avec les anglais.
En 1809 il

La monarchie orléaniste née par une révolution est très modérée et fondée sur l’appui de la grande et moyenne bourgeoise et de l’aristocratie. Le peuple est repoussé par le pouvoir. Louis Philippe d’Orléans prend comme drapeau le tricolore de 1789. De plus, la Charte, modifiée en façon libérale n’est pas concédée par le roi mais elle est conquis par le

Hardy's long life makes him a Victorian writer and a modern one. He started to practise architecture in London, because his father was a mason and a small builder. After his first literary succes he gave up his career in architecture to devote himself to writing. He had been married twice: when his first wife Emma Gifford died in 1912 he married Florenc

Introduction. The Romantic Period (1776-1837). The Context
The Romantic Period is also labelled the "Age of Revolution", because it starts with the American Declaration of Independence (signed in Philadelphia in 1776) and is characterised by the effects of the political revolution in France (1789) and the Industrial Revolution at home.
The

The story jumps suddenly in the 1969 , in the same place , where Alan lived.
Alan is a young guy , afraid of some bad kids who want to fight against him .
Riding his bike , he met them and immediately ran to his dad’s shoes factory.
He ran to his dad , and asked him to pick him home by car , but his dad wanted him to face his life problems s

After a difficult childhood , Jane was sent to Lowood School, a semi-charitable institution for girls. The place was very hostile towards her ,because she was considered a liar from Mr. Brocklehurst and because he esorted the other girls to stay away from Jane .But only one girl ,disobeying from the orders, become her great friend :Helen Burns .Their fr

but when he has to kill the king Macbeth is very doubtful, in fact , at the end, he has a heart ,and he understands the inhumanity of the action that he is going to committ besides he is afraid about the consequences of the crime.
He answers “Duncan is here in double trust: first as I am his kinsman andsubject ,strong both against the deed; then, a

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

Questo romanzo, privo di illustrazioni, costituito da duecentoquattordici pagine, suddivise in ventisei capitoli, è stato pubblicato nel 1994 dalla casa editrice Feltrinelli nella collana I Narratori.
La vicenda narrata si svolge a Lisbona nell’agosto del 1938, cioè sullo sfondo del regime salazarista, del fascismo italiano e della g