In the
years of Elizabeth's
reign, the puritans had complained against ecclesiastical rituals.
they
didn’t want scholarly interpretations of the scriptures and wanted that the
individual to understand God's will from reading the Bible. They sa [...]
The woman in white
Walter hartright was given a job drawing to Marian and
Laura, the two nieces of Frederick Fairlie, at limmeridge House.
The night before he left for Limmeridge House, Walter
met a strange young woman dressed in white. [...]
CONTEMPORARY
FEMINISM: WOMEN’S WIEV OF THE WORLD
Women said that in the
past the world has been explained only by men and they do not consider the
difference between men and women. Traditional ideas about women are that they
can not share powe [...]
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757/1827)
He published 2 famous collections of poems: “songs of innocence”
and “songs of experience”. The poet’s dual vision of life is expressed in his
poems by the inner state of innocence based on feeling like love and g [...]
ARTICLES
1. Gli articoli indefiniti
A e An hanno lo stesso significato ma si
usano in casi diversi: a davanti a nomi che iniziano con consonante e an
davanti a nomi che iniziano con vocale.
La
forma plura [...]
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Britain is a constitutional
monarchy and a parliamentary democracy
based on the principle that the people have the right to choose their
representatives, who will sit in the parliament and legislate for the nation [...]
Commerce is a term
that embraces all those functions involved in the marketing, buying, selling
and transport of goods. Commerce and trade are terms used to describe the
exchange of merchandise for money or the commodities. Trade can be classified [...]
I VERBI IRREGOLARI AL
PASSATO
be
was/were
been
essere
[...]
The
Tools of Poetry
The art of writing poems. It means to create and the people use it to express
the feelings.
Rhyme: the use of words with the same sound at the ends of the lines of a
poem.
Enjambement: when a line ends in the middle of [...]
Appunti
inglese
1° periodo ipotetico (periodo della realtà)
viene reso nel seguente modo: la frase con if reggerà sempre un tempo
presente essendo questa la condizione da realizzare mentre la frase principale
reggerà u [...]
Macbeth and the Tempest
Sydney definition: the tragedies have a didactic purpose; Macbeth teaches us how even a
good man can be tempted to power and then defeated by its tough mechanisms. A
tragedy describes a rise and fall of an individual. Its [...]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream
This comedy
was composed by William Shakespeare in 1593 -95 and is divided in five acts,
written in prose and verses. All the actions are narrated by dialogues.
Summary
The action
begins at the noble co [...]
Types of economic systems
Businesses operate in a particular
economic system. Each country must decide what type of economic system it will
adopt to make the best use of its resources. There are three main ways in which
a country can organi [...]
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
George Gordon,
Lord Byron
Lord
Byron was born in London
in 1788. His father, John, was a libertine who squandered the fortunes of his
first wife as well as those of his second, Byron’s mother. Even [...]
the world of the Elizabethan theatre
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the time
period in which William Shakespeare was active in the theatre, attending a play
during the afternoon was a favorite leisure activity for many members of Lon [...]
William
Blake
Life.
William Blake was born in London in 1757. When he
was ten years old his father sent him to a drawing school where he knows the
works of Raphael and Michelangelo. Than he became an
apprentice to a famous engraver and star [...]
ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
THE MAIN CHANGES
IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
The Victorian period is a
period of rapid expansion from the territorial and economical point of view. In
this period the modern urban economy with manufacturing industry and
inte [...]
Adolescence is a period of transition between
childhood and adulthood. The onset of adolescence has indeed changing with
time: nowadays adolescence starts around 9 and 10 years of age and goes on
about 18 or 20. Adolescence ca be described from di [...]
STORIA E CULTURA DI UN POPOLO E UNO
STATO: L’ INDIA
LINGUA
:INGLESE
The Republic
of India (Hindi: भारत
गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya), commonly known as India, [...]
ROBERT BROWNING 1812-1889
LIFE AND
WORKS: he was a son of a scholarly bank clerk whoso huge library offered him
wide and varied reading. He started writing poetry quite early and then turned
to drama. Not much success. From the two he develope [...]
