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One of my favourite Banksy's artworks is "Devolved Parliament": an oil on canvas painting depicting the House of Commons full of chimpanzees debating on Brexit. Last year this artwork was sold at Sotheby's for 12.2 million dollars and it's the most expensive Banksy's work. Although it was painted in 2009, it's surprisingly actual, even after the UK exit from the European Union.

Thanks to this reading key, we can interpret this canvas as a criticism of against every government, not only the British one.

Even during this delicate period, in which the whole world should work in synergy, we can see Banksy-style parliamentary sessions.

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Virginia Woolf was born 0n 25th January 1882 and is known as one of the greatest experimental novelist during Modernist period.

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Lewis carrol was an English fiction writer who wrote and created games as a child.

When he was 20 he received a studentship at Christ church and was appointed a lecturer in maths. Carrol was shy but enjoyed creating stories for children. My favorite books about him include Alice in the wonderland and Alice through the looking-glass.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known as Lewis Carrol, was the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys born to Frances Jane Lutwidge, the wife of the Rev. Charles Dodgson. He was born in the old parsonage at Daresbury. His father was perpetual curate there from 1827 until 1843, when he became rector of Croft in Yorkshire

The Dodgson children, living as they did in an isolated country village, had few friends outside the family but, like many other families in similar circumstances, found little difficulty in entertaining themselves. Charles from the first showed a great aptitude for inventing games to amuse them. With the move to Croft when he was 12 came the beginning of the “Rectory Magazines,” manuscript compilations to which all the family were supposed to contribute. In fact, Charles wrote nearly all of those that survive, beginning with Useful and Instructive Poetry and following with The Rectory Magazine, The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch .

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Cristiana Sicali - My favourite literary character

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In my opinion the best skill we can develop as human beings is imagination and unfortunately nowadays this skill tends to be less developed possibly due to our obsessive (but useful) attachment to smartphones or PCs. If now we don't have a good fantasy, there was a man who, after he was born in 1892, gave the world one of the best masterpiece of imagination: John Ronald Tolkien.

This genius, didn’t only write one of the best-selling novels ever written like "The Lord of the Rings", but he managed to create a number of new languages thanks to his profession as a philologist.

Inventing language was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien who reconstructed a germanic language (which might have been spoken by the people of Beowulf time) and the sweetest language I ever heard: the Elvish language (Tolkien developed Elvish grammar until his death in 1973). Do you think anyone could be more brilliant than Tolkien?

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My favourite literary character until now is Galileo Galilei. He was a physicist, astronomer and engineer of the 16th-17th century and he is also referred to as the “father of modern physics and science”. I like him because he revolutionized physics and science by constructing the telescope and by finding out the scientific method. Another aspect I like about him is that he had the courage to support the heliocentric theory, developed by the polish astronomer Copernicus, in a world where ideals and principles were based on Aristotle’s studies. His intellect and his beliefs were surely ahead of his time and because of that he was accused of heresy by the Holy Church when he published the “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)” and had to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. He was accused because he represented the Aristotelian character as a simpleton. But this sentence didn’t stop him: in 1638 he published in Holland his last project “Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences”. He shortly died after that.One of his most famous quotes (and my favourite one) is “And yet it moves”, which states that the Earth moves around the Sun, supports the heliocentric theory and is also the core of Galileo’s beliefs.

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My favourite literary character Giacomo Leopardi is an Italian poet of the 19th century. I was struck by his thought and his conception of life Because I believe it is still relevant among us young people of the 21st century. Leopardi has a pessimistic conception of life, dominated by pain and unhappiness. Unhappiness arises from the desire for happiness that is in us and from the impossibility of achieving it. Life appears Leopardi as suffering, pain and in contentment: Joy is only momentary, it is cessation of pain beyond pain there is boredom that extinguishes the desire to live in the heart.The closed environment of the province contributed to influencing this pessimistic conception, of which you always feel the oppression, aggravated also by the indifference of the father, Count Monaldo and by the excessive severity of the mother, Adelaide Antici. In fact Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati in the Marche region, a culturally backward environment. At first Leopardi thought that his unhappiness was due to the environment in which he lived but later for the poet the cause of human unhappiness is the nature that, considered at first good benign, is later seen as stepmother, evil and fierce, because it arouses hopes and illusions in man which then always disappoints. But over the years this pessimism becomes a cosmic pessimism, nature makes unhappy not men but all beings of Creation. In fact nature creates us But then it abandons us to our destiny.

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My favourite literary character Giacomo Leopardi is an Italian poet of the 19th century. I was struck by his thought and his conception of life Because I believe it is still relevant among us young people of the 21st century. Leopardi has a pessimistic conception of life, dominated by pain and unhappiness. Unhappiness arises from the desire for happiness that is in us and from the impossibility of achieving it. Life appears Leopardi as suffering, pain and in contentment: Joy is only momentary, it is cessation of pain beyond pain there is boredom that extinguishes the desire to live in the heart.The closed environment of the province contributed to influencing this pessimistic conception, of which you always feel the oppression, aggravated also by the indifference of the father, Count Monaldo and by the excessive severity of the mother, Adelaide Antici. In fact Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati in the Marche region, a culturally backward environment. At first Leopardi thought that his unhappiness was due to the environment in which he lived but later for the poet the cause of human unhappiness is the nature that, considered at first good benign, is later seen as stepmother, evil and fierce, because it arouses hopes and illusions in man which then always disappoints. But over the years this pessimism becomes a cosmic pessimism, nature makes unhappy not men but all beings of Creation. In fact nature creates us But then it abandons us to our destiny.

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My favorite literary characters are Romeo and Juliet from William Shakespeare’s tragedy, the main theme of this work is romantic, intense and passionate love.  I like because they are more than two simple lovers: they represent true love, they stay together despite the great difficulties, in fact the two protagonists will find many obstacles during their story as an example the rivalry between their families who hate each other, the two lovers try to escape from this hate, but fate will lead them to have a violent and premature death.

Romeo and Juliet have very different personalities.  Giulietta is a very complex character, at first she seems a shy, innocent and obedient girl but when she falls in love with Romeo she shows great strength of mind and maturity in fact she fights for her love with great courage.

Romeo is a passionate and impulsive boy.  Initially he seems to be a boy with an "unstable" heart because he is first in love with Rosalina and after falls in love with Giulietta, but shows his deep love for Giulietta.

For me it is one of the most beautiful love stories that has been written, it tells about the love of two guys that survives beyond overcome everything, even to death.

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My favourite literary character

The British writer Jane Austen was born in Steventon on December 16, 1775 and died in Winchester on July 18, 1817. Jane Austen is one of the most famous writers in England and without doubt one of the most important of the pre-Romantic period. In 1783 he started attending an Oxford school, which she later had to drop out due to a diphtheria epidemic. With her sister then attended the Abbey School of Reading from 1785 to 1786.

His novels are based on the assumption that there is a vital relationship between customs, social behavior and character. The plots of his novels are based above all on the traditional values ​​of the families of the landowners and the upper middle class (property, decoration, money and marriage. The happy ending is a common element in his novels. What makes them interesting is the analysis of the various obstacles through which the protagonists manage to achieve a happy ending. The author also deals with love and sexual attraction according to her general opinion that the impulses and states of intense emotion should be controlled by personal reflection.

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My favourite literary character
DANIEL DEFOE

Defoe was an English Novelist who was born in 1660 in England.         He is regarded as the father of the English novel, the representative of a new social class that wanted to see their life and ideals portrayed in literature.Risultato immagini per defoe

His novels always pretending to be true stories, the protagonists have to face an hostile world, they are modern and psychologically complex. All his characters are characterized by a strong spirit of survival so they    could    solve problems and achieve success during their lives.

My favourite Defoe’s novel is “Robinson Crusoe “because it is an adventurous and overwhelming genre and I love adventures.

I am particularly impressed by the figure of Robinson Crusoe, because he is able to face a shipwreck with courage and faith in God. The thing I liked the (no) most was his relationship with Friday, and how he teaches him to , to live properly and to be a perfect servant.

I appreciate his way of analyzing the character from the inside and through his actions and how he describes it within society and in difficult situations.

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A few years ago I started reading some books written by a certain J.K.Rowling entitled “Harry Potter”, until then I had never read books except school books but when I started reading them I couldn't stop anymore. My absolute favourite character is the protagonist, Harry Potter, an eleven year old boy with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead who lost his parents when he was a child and which was grown by his uncles. On his eleventh birthday he found out he was a wizard and that he had been admitted to Hogwarts school of magic and witchcraft since then his life have changed finding a new family and having to face evil forces every year.

He is my favourite character because he has a very brave, intellectual and courageous personality which impressed me the most. He never gives up even though everyone is against him. He loves and values his family and friends. Harry Potter is strongly guided by his own conscience, and has a keen feeling of what is right and what is wrong, he always put others before himself and he is the best friend someone could wish for.

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Virginia Woolf was born 0n 25th January 1882 and is known as one of the greatest experimental novelist during Modernist period. She ended her own lifein 1941 by committing a suicide and the reason is thought  to be the depression she suffered all throughout her life.She was a journalist as well as writer and she made great achievements. I like her because her novels were revolutionary and outstanding for it developments of feminist criticism and modernidt movement.Her main aim was to give voice to the complex inner world of feeling and memory and sees the human personality as a continuous flux of impressionism and emotionsIn her work the onniscient narrator disappears and the point of view shifts inside the character's mind through flashback, associations of ideas presented as a continuous flux. Some sentences can be short and simple while some can be long as an entire paragraph.

Her famous books that I like most is:

1. Mrs Dalloway (1925): describes a day of Mrs Dalloway in the World War 1

2. To the Lighthouse (1927): considered as a peak novel of the modernism; the shifting prospective of each character's consciousness is unique

3. Orlando (1928): a biography of Virginia Woolf's lover; has been adapter for film

My favourite quote is: “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

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Jane Austen was born in Steventon in 16 Dicember 1775 and was dead in Winchester 18 July 1817, was a British writer, a leading figure in neoclassical fiction, and one of the most famous and well-know authors of  literary panorama of the United Kingdom and worldwide. Jane Austen’s novels are useful for discovering the old uses of English society ah the time the writer lived. Maybe that’s why it hit me nicely. Moreover, his critical point of view is fantastic.
I also think that Jane Austen has a great talent and character considering that many not intelletual woman, they mainly dedicated themselves to household and family matters

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Jane Austen, was born in Steventon 16 Dicember 1775 and was dead in Winchester 18 July 1817, was a British writer, a leading figure in neoclassical fiction, and one of the most famous and well-known authors of literary panorama of the united kingdom and worldwide.
Jane Austen’s novels are useful for discovering the old uses of english society at the time the writer lived. Maybe that’s why it hit me nicely. Moreover, his critical point of view is fantastic.
I also think that Jane Austen has a great talent and character considering that many not intellectual woman, they mainly dedicated themselves to household and family matters.

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One of my favorite literary character is Andrzej Sapkowski. He was born in Poland in 1948. He became very famous because of his great fantasy saga “ The Witcher”. I like this author because of his great masterpiece. The main character of this saga is “ Geralt of Rivia”, a monster hunter trained since childhood to fight against legendary creatures. Geralt exists in a morally ambiguous universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. He is noble and cynical at the same time. I like this work because Sapkowski’s fantasy novel isn’t as common as Tolkien’s or Rowling’s in which we can find a distinguished difference between good and evil. In fact, in Sapkowski’s works we cannot find this difference and his characters are always covered by a layer of pain, by the continuous impression of being wrong and they always feel like in the hands of a merciless destiny. Because of this we can say that in Sapkowski’s works we can’t find a distinguished contrast, like black and white, but just a big variety of grey. What really makes Sapkowski one of my favourite authors are these secondary characteristics of his works.

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Jules Verne is my favourite literary character since I was a kid; I have never stopped liking him. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction". Even though Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, to my regret his reputation in Anglophone regions was markedly different: in fact he had often been labelled a writer of children's books, largely because of the highly shortened and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Verne's collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the “Voyages extraordinaires”, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including the two that I like the most, the Journey to the centre of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). I like Jules Verne’s work because according to him the goal of the Voyages was “to outline all the geographical, geological, physical, and astronomical knowledge amassed by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and picturesque format the history of the universe”.

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“Street art” is a visual art genre, a way to express a concept or an ideal. Banksy could be seen as one of the most important street artist and political activist: he makes a statement through his art and hits a lot of common people. For me, he is not a vandal: in fact, vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property. Generally, I think vandalism and street art are two separate and different things, simply because a vandal express himself in a wrong and harmful way.
There is an abysmal difference between someone who writes “F**k the Police!” on the wall and Banksy, who makes meaningful and political paintings outdoors.
I could analyse, as an example, his work “Rage, Flower Thrower”: in this one is shown a rioter throwing a bunch of flowers instead of a bomb. This is an iconic painting in which Banksy shows himself against violence. I love this work because it was vehicle of a powerful peace message: it was seen in Jerusalem, an important war-torn area. The colourful bouquet is the emblem of fraternity and peace hope.
This is still one of the biggest symbol of peace, especially during any kind of manifestation.

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One of the many Banksy's artworks is titled "Mobile Lovers" and shows a man and a woman in each other's arms as if they are about to kiss.  Both of them are holding their own IPhone, the currently society's most popular phone.  Banksy conveys the message of the importance of living the moment: people live their life through their phone and they don't know anymore how having a real connection with others. With this image, Banksy open society's eyes and explains that living the moment is the best way to appreciate life and all the opportunities a person can have.  Before that this type of technology, there was more communication than now: people gave importance to things that really matter and not how many followers on Instagram they have.  Specially now, in this pandemic period, we have to take a break with social media, detoxify from what is harmful in the long run and take care of ourselves waiting to laugh again and go out with our friends. This is a very powerful message and it is addressed to everyone.  I don't consider this artwork a vandalism because, firstly, it sends a right message and it doesn't harm the image of a society.  It can't be compared with offences: the artists deserve recognitions, not contempt.

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What is art? We can consider “art” any form of activity carried out by human being, to be able of highlighting talent, for example: music, poetry, cooking or street art. There are many shades of art, but  many people don’t realize these different form of expression and consider these “vandalism”. We can do an example talking about street art that is seen as a cluster of scribbles.  I think that there are cases in which “scribbles” give birth to something that hides a deeper meaning like the workers “Mobile Lovers” by Bansky. This image shows two people: one man and one woman in each other’s as if they are about to kiss, but in reality each one of them has their eyes spread from the other to look at the phone that is in their hand. The photo is in all black and white, but there is a clearer light in their faces coming from their phones that are the cause of their distraction. I chose this graffito because nowadays it is a very frequent situation, especially among us teenagers. So I think that street art is not vandalism but pure art.

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MIGRANT CHILD BANSKY

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MIGRANT CHILD BANSKY
Venice Host the latest Bansky's work.
In a wall, at water level, is represented a child who seems to be a migrant wearing a life jacket holding aloft a fizzing neon pink flare.
Also the child’s legs and feet are immersed in the canal’s water and it gives the impression that he’s asking for help.
The work represents one of the most current social problems: immigration.
The choice of the child symbolizes the tenderness and innocence of these people who risk their lives for a better future.
The place chosen by Bansky is not accidental ; he paints in front of the “rich buildings “ to underline the poverty that characterizes them and to allow the viewers to compare poverty and wealth.
I choose this work because of its relevance, because it sends a very strong message and because it is created in Venice, a city that I love.
I don't think street art is vandalism.
Bansky represents the example of street art as an authentic form of art.
There are cases, however, in which the drawings don’t make the city more beautiful and in which they damage it, in Catania there are many examples.
Street art is ART when it arouses an emotion and when it leaves an important message to the society that looks at it

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Kissing coppers

When Kissing Coppers appeared on the wall of a pub on a Brighton street in 2004, it caused quite a stir.  With a pungent irony, Banksy portrays a couple of policemen who abandon themselves to a passionate kiss.  Law enforcement officers are often mocked in Banksy's works and in this case, from a symbol of repression, they turn into an anti-homophobia icon.  Today, in Brighton, it is only possible to see a copy of the original work, which was sold to a private individual by the owner of the pub for a staggering amount. Street art has often been labeled as an act of vandalism because the media used are public vehicles and buildings.  The difference between vandalism and writing in my opinion exists and is to be found in the motivations that lead the person to paint.  The border between art and vandalism and between beauty and illegality has been illuminated several times by world-renowned artists, such as Haring, Banksy, Blu and many others, their works lead the observer to reflect on the difficulties and successes of today's society, inspiring  in each of us the desire to think about what surrounds us not only ideally, but also physically.

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Daria Castelli - My favourite literary character

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Sara Lipari - Bansky and  Street Art.pdf

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The origin of the Word “street art” derives from the mass media, which brought attention to a large youth audience. Previously it was predeterminated as an expression of youthful restlessness, rather than a real art form. Street art is an artistic expression that takes shape in public spaces like streets, walls and station, sometimes dedicates spaces are set up but often this art takes shape through illegal acts. So the border between vandalism and art is a fine Line even today. The reasons that push many young people to embark on this non-canonical path of art can be very varied. For some it is a form of criticism of private property, claiming the streets and squares; in street art, it is often a contestation against society or against politics. For others it is more simply a way to exhibit freely, without the constraints of galleries and museums; therefore a way to self-promote and operate independently. Street art in fact offers the possibility of having a potentially vast audience, often much greater than that of a traditional art gallery. Banksy can be one of the most important street artist and political activist. In my opinion he couldn’t be seen as a vandal because vandalism the action that demages public or private property. There is a deep difference from street art that is a manifestation of skills of young artist.

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The origin of the Word “street art” derives from the mass media, which brought attention to a large youth audience. Previously it was predeterminated as an expression of youthful restlessness, rather than a real art form. Street art is an artistic expression that takes shape in public spaces like streets, walls and station, sometimes dedicates spaces are set up but often this art takes shape through illegal acts. So the border between vandalism and art is a fine Line even today. The reasons that push many young people to embark on this non-canonical path of art can be very varied. For some it is a form of criticism of private property, claiming the streets and squares; in street art, it is often a contestation against society or against politics. For others it is more simply a way to exhibit freely, without the constraints of galleries and museums; therefore a way to self-promote and operate independently. Street art in fact offers the possibility of having a potentially vast audience, often much greater than that of a traditional art gallery. Banksy can be one of the most important street artist and political activist. In my opinion he couldn’t be seen as a vandal because vandalism the action that demages public or private property. There is a deep difference from street art that is a manifestation of skills of young artist.