Appunti di Inglese

THE GOTHIC NOVEL   THE AGE OF TRANSITION   Between Classicism and Romanticism Early romanticism Pre-romanticism Classicism Age of reason Imitation of the classics Elaboration ...

THE GOTHIC NOVEL Why gothic? The term gothic applied to this type of novel meant both medieval with its relative store of ruins, abbeys . and supernatural that is mysterious and frightening. The gothic novel was the prose counterpart ...

THE GREAT BRITAIN The country's full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The U.K. consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is the name given to England, Scotland and Wales only ...

The Greeks gods The ancient Greeks were polytheists and every god had a role. Every special event was attributed at the gods (earthquakes, drought, sickness . ). The twelve more important Greeks divinities were Zeus, Hera, Athena, He ...

The Happy Prince The Happy Prince was written by Oscar Wild, who was an importanta Irish writer, born in 1854. The tale is about a swallow who had fallen in love with a reed and, when his friends migrated to Egypt, decided to r ...

THE HISTORY OF TOURISM   In the past, the Egyptian, Greeks and Romans have left many signs of their movements. In fact the Greeks explored the Mediterranean lands, the Romans explored North Africa, Britain and France, bringing civili ...

THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK Lewis Carroll represents a link with Shakespeare because both of them use mixed genres. In his works, Carroll uses COMIC and TRAGIC features. Within this particular form of poetry, we can find many esthetic ...

The Iberians During the last ice age a land bridge connected the British Isles to the European continent and the Thames and Seine rivers were connected. While the land bridge existed, the Iberians, who lived in the area at the time, moved fr ...

The Iberians and Celts 200 b.C. The Iberians were the first population who settled in Great Britain. They lived in shacks. they lived with cattle. They discovered how to weave cloth. They also mad ...

The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Oscar Wilde THE PERSONS IN THE PLAY John Worthing, J.P. Algernon Moncrieff Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D. Merriman, Butler Lane, Manservant Lady Bracknell Hon. Gwend ...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST Jack Worthing, bold man from the strangers native, alive in country together with Cecily, an eighteen year-old girl on which manages the guardianship, and with the governess of this last, Miss Prism. J ...

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION The industrial revolution changed the way goods were made. Toward the end of the eighteenth century machinery could do the work of several people and mass production became possible. With the help of machin ...

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The Internet story In the 1950s, the USA expected to be first into space. To their surprise, on October 4, 1957 the Soviet ...

The Irish Question Some authors had write about the violent history of Ireland. Ireland was a country divided in two parts, the Northern Part was catholic and against England and the Southern part was Protestant and wanted that England co ...

The Joyce's vision of space in Dubliners and of time in Ulysses Life James Joyce was the first and the most important amongst the great experimentalists of the 20th century. He was born in Dublin from a good family in decline and wa ...

The Lamb and the Tiger These songs are taken from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake. In The Lamb the poet speaks with his child and he compares his baby to a lamb, contrarily in The Tiger the narrator is ...

The limits of the human production: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein; when a man becomes a God H umanity tries always to overcome his limits in his production. We can see this in every field of knowledge, we ca ...

The little mermaid PLOT Ariel was 16 years old, she dreamt of knowing the world of humans and she fell in love with Eric, a prince. Her father, a king called Tritone, didnt want that she went on the land. So, Ariel went ...

(1) The loss of the American colonies George III became king in 1760 and he surrounded himself with incompetent ministers. The relations between Britain and American colonies were deteriorating; because the Navigation Acts imposed to Americ ...