How did the relationship between man and nature evolve towards the end of the 19th century? His love for his daughter Ophelia. At the beginning of the play, the black Othello is the champion of honesty and he, a barbarian, behaves like a perfect Christian. Her style was also characterised by the use of verbal and situational irony, rather than by open interpretation or comment on the action. Circle the personal pronouns. Finally there are symmetrical correspondences. Structure Because he created a way of writing which turned around these features: an intense dramatic quality; the use of wit and unusual, intellectual metaphors called ‘conceits’; the use of a variety of tone and register. re-establish the legal order in England. away from it because ‘it’s woven in (his) soul. It is the symbol of life. Both characters nervously listen for sounds which could lead to their discovery. Shylock wonders whether a dog could lend money. are potentially immortal; they survive on blood; Suggestion: He is reserved, sarcastic and clever; she is rather ignorant and moody, apparently interested only in manners and in getting her daughters married. mixture of dialogue and third-person narration, themes: magic, border rivalry, love and domestic tragedy, outlaws. Defoe shows that, though God is the prime cause of everything, the individual can shape his destiny through action. It withers and dies. Red dots: opposition between ‘nothing stands’ 3rd section (lines 51-62): Prospero’s power on Caliban. What is the title of the play performed at court? You can rhyme ‘house’ with ‘mouse’ but not‘love’ with ‘more’. From the first paragraph find the date, the time of the day, the weather and the source of light. Coleridge sees nature in a ‘neoplatonic’ way, as a reflection of the perfect world of ideas, as the presence of the ideal in the real. The idea of having been chosen by God is underlined by the fact that he feels happy even though he is completely alone. Above all, the eyes, which would previously have been closed, would not have shown any feelings. What is the theme developed in the poem? The tone is slow, emphatic, intensely emotional. The Wedding Guest, who was impatient in Part I, starts coming back to reality, but on the next day he wakes up ‘sadder’ because he understands human reality better, and ‘wiser’ because he has learnt something from the Mariner’s story. of Bath was a wealthy woman and could afford In addition to this, marriage and society were based upon a contract rather than emotions, and the emotions expressed are so superficial as not to deserve the title of love. They built over 9,600 kilometres of paved roads in Britain, which remained in use for centuries. Suggestion: It is always difficult to overcome the thought that Frankenstein should have noticed that the creature was not beautiful before animating him! Mercy blesses both those who give it and those who receive it, ‘not strain’d’ (line 20), ‘gentle’ (line 21), ‘twice blest’ (line 22), ‘mightiest in the mightiest’ (line 24), ‘above this sceptred sway’ (line 29), ‘enthroned in the hearts of kings’ (line 30), ‘an attribute to God himself’ (line 31). Do the lines have a regular rhyme scheme? Countries will have to endure a global re-assessment in 2023 and two years later make new carbon cutting commitments. Here virtue acquires many meanings: humanity, charity, love, good faith. The Long Parliament was purged of 370 Presbyterian and royalist sympathisers. Donne says that a very sick individual may be too sick to realise that the bell is tolling for him. This is the theory of ‘complementary opposites’. It extended the vote to almost all male members of the middle classes and re-distributed seats on a more equitable basis in the counties. flogged by monks at the door of the cathedral Students’ activity. Picture 1: the cult of the Virgin Queen This is the turning point in Portia’s speech: she says that even the ultimate judge does not apply unadulterated justice. They share the Desdemona is more fearful of Othello’s facial expression than his words. the definitions of ‘terror’ and ‘horror’ given by Ann Radcliffe; Terror is characterised by obscurity or the indefinite use of threatening events; it ‘expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life’. He was lying on the bed and breathing heavily. What is its aim? He is the reporting pilgrim: he tells us directly or sometimes ironically what he sees and what he thinks about it. Uniformity. ‘pictures’ (line 50), ‘painted’ (line 51), ‘gild’ (line 52), ‘incarnadine’ (line 59), ‘green’ (line 60), ‘red’ (line 60), ‘colour’ (line 61), ‘white’ (line 62). Merchants like Antonio lend money free of interest, and risk their wealth and reputation for those they love, whereas Shylock’s greed seems to be stronger than his love for his daughter. This project, however, came to nothing. The traditional portrayals of Jews as villains, mocked or marginalised. From business books to educational textbooks, the site features over 1000 free eBooks for you to download. whether she was the only survivor; No, there were two others: Jimmie Waterford and Tom Wells. Boxes: Macbeth’s change since the beginning of the play: After all the ‘horrors’ he has ‘supp’d with’, Macbeth does not know fear any more. He was looking at the Butterfields, his girlfriend Jade’s ‘perfect’ family as they were having dinner. Prospero becomes a symbol for European colonial power, with which England was growing increasingly familiar in Shakespeare’s lifetime. king and the religious authority of the Church of The names given to the pilgrims refer to their profession and suggest a society in which work conditioned the personality and world view of each individual. He cuts down a tree to make a shelf. refuse his name. The poet’s first awareness of beauty proceeds from the senses, from concrete physical sensations. Write the setting next to each group of lines. his clothes; He is wearing a pair of brown ragged knickerbockers, a white shirt stained with blood and a pair of worn black shoes. Why did he use the expression ‘my journey to nowhere’? Lines 17-18. Scarborough Fair is shorter than the original ballad the questions are not direct: the man asks someone else to bring his message to the girl the refrains ‘Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme’ and ‘Then she’ll be a true love of mine’ are repeated only in some stanzas. How would you describe the vocabulary of this passage? Which line gives the ballad its new title? Who are the main characters? What is the nature of this feeling? half of the 3rd line of stanzas 1-6 The well is dry so there is no water for washing. a boy; later he studied at the Royal Academy of Fear leads him to the determination to follow the woman and find out who she was. James I: He ignored Parliament and based his moved to Lerici, where one day Percy set sail in expressed directly. In a closed setting: his characters are rarely seen in daylight; they often live confined in a small place, some are walled into cellars, others are buried prematurely. beginning in medias res T. Her request is not supported by her husband. What kind of man was the Metaphysical poet? A tax imposed on every adult, without reference to their income. If the poet manages to rely on this negative capability, he can find sensations, which are the basis of knowledge leading to beauty and truth. He has realised that his dream of founding an ideal existence with the help of magic is an illusion. Romeo and Juliet both describe what they can see Juliet talks of the darkness which even withholds the sight from each other but which allows their love to reveal itself and develop. It is that of allowing carbon emissions to rise year after year. What are the four things listed in each repeated second line? Shakespeare chose Venice as the setting of his tragedy. In turn, Juliet compares their newfound love to light, primarily to stress the speed at which their romance is moving, but also to suggest that, just as the lightening is a glorious break in the blackness of the night sky, so their love turns out to be a flash, a wonderful glow in a dark world. main features: imaginary nations with strange The main subject is the tempest performed by Prospero thanks to Ariel. What senses are involved in the description of the places? couplet) Her first post was called '10 reasons to leave a safe job and travel to South America’ and it was successful because a travel company which specialised in South America took it up and commissioned her to write further blogs about travelling in Chile, Argentina and Peru. He turns out to be a magic character since he hypnotises the Wedding Guest (lines 14-18, 38). The main narrative mode is dialogue. The result of this process is the ‘new world’ of the poem created by the poet himself. How did some newspapers respond to the increased tax on the paper they had to use? What were the principles of the short story, according to Poe? They are recurrent groupings of metaphors and similes. The sister silver and gold as a dowry for her future Who are the protagonists of The Canterbury Tales? Antonio has abused Shylock both verbally and physically many times. What are the themes of this tragedy? Who are ‘we’ and ‘you’? The new factor in The Canterbury Tales is individualisation: the character exists because he/she has reactions and is in movement. // key words linked to Lord Randal’s testament: Robinson’s account is characterised by reasoning and deduction; his actions are not driven by instinct but are the result of a logical process. His father left his family in 1810 and his mother died of consumption the following year. imagery; Sonnet XVIII: metaphor of the summer; Sonnet LX: similes and metaphors concerning time; Sonnet CXXX: negative comparisons. The plot . As regards poetic technique, breaking free from models and rules, the Romantic poets searched for a new, individual style through the choice of a language and subject suitable to poetry. Suggestion: This was known Jack), common coinage, a new translation of the Scarica la versione completa eBook in formato PDF the emigration of many dissenters to the New hypnotic power over their victims and can turn Her look reminds the narrator of an extreme illness even if her expression is of a desperate, yearning malevolence. Find information about what the sublime was concerned with in the Romantic Age. Where is Romeo exiled after killing Tybalt? The vision of the pale men in the knight’s dream suggests that she is destructive. With its skin stretched, the creature would not make facial expressions which would be ‘normal’. Is Hamlet talking to himself? What does he mean? What facts paved the way to the breach with Rome? Justify your answer by quoting from the text. Where were performances held before the building of the first permanent theatres? The consequence of religious uniformity was Monologue. Main works Compact Performer - Culture & Literature . Early job experiences: He published his first collections of poems in Boston and then joined the army. She realised that, at least for the moment, she was not interested in chasing material possessions, but she wanted freedom and adventure. duty of military service was replaced with a tax She’s not just proud, but very proud, not just vain but very vain she has not just been on one pilgrimage, but many she has not just had one husband but five. In part two, Dracula travels to England, where he seduces and destroys an innocent English girl, Lucy Westenra. Match the victims with who or what exploits them. How does Robinson regard his shipwreck on the island in the light of God’s will? Shakespeare seems eager to show that good may come of evil. Dante’s Satan (Lucifer) is physically monstrous, described in the Inferno as ‘the ill Worm’; Milton’s Satan takes several forms: he is first presented as a fallen angel who finds himself in a newly created Hell, and later in the poem he takes the classic form of a snake. The sestet starts with the contrast between the urn and mankind and ends with Keats’s concept of art and imagination. 3rd paragraph: He feels a hypocrite for thanking God for a condition he hates; he decides to thank God for giving him guidance through the Bible. main representative: Jonathan Swift with his He raised an army of Royalists and declared war against the Parliamentarians. Students’ activity. How does the poem build up this atmosphere? He complains about the fact that he has to play roles that he does not believe in. Describe the characteristics of the page in picture 2. France declared war on Britain and Holland, 1805 The Battle of Trafalgar and death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1815 The Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was defeated by the British soldiers led by the Duke of Wellington, 1820 George III died and was succeeded by his son George IV, 1829 Sir Robert Peel created the Metropolitan Police, 1830 George IV died and was succeeded by his brother William IV, 1832 The Great Reform Act was passed which extended the vote to almost all male members of the middle classes and re-distributed seats on a more equitable basis in the counties, 1837 William IV died and his 18-year-old niece, Victoria, succeeded him to the British throne.