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Life:

He was born in Bombay into a middle-class Muslim family;

He was sent to school in England, where he later got a degree in History at Cambridge University;

He worked as an actor in Pakistan;

He was sentenced to death by the Iranian Khomeini for Satanic Verses;

His themes include exile, metamorphosis and rootlessness in the contemporary world.

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Key points:

The contrast between the British and the indian cultures;

A criticism of imperialism;

Divided intro three parts: Mosque, Caves, Temple.

Main characters: Mrs Moore, Miss Adela, Fielding, Heaslop, Dr AZiz.

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LIfe:

He was born in 1879;

He studied at Cambridge and mixed with the Bloomsbury Group;

He travelled extensively in Italy and India;

He was a traditional writer although he dealt with uncoventional themes.

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Key points:

India, its landscapes and people

The relations between the British and the Indians;

Animals and the luxuriant Indian nature.

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Life:

He was born in India (1865) and worked there as a journalist for several years;

His early Indian short stories made him suddenly famous in England and The US;

He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.

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non mi piace preferisco Colin Firth G.G.

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                                                   THANKSGIVING

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                                                   THANKSGIVING

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Thanksgiving and its origins.

Thanksgiving is an important public holiday, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States. It originated as a harvest festival. It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens," to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.  The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"— days of prayers thanking God for blessings, such as military victory or the end of a drought.

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Thanksgiving dinner

The traditional main course is roast turkey, served with mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, cranberry sauce, several autumn vegetables (mainly squash) and pumpkin pie. All of these foodstuffs are native to the Americas

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The White House tradition

One interesting White House tradition is the "Presidential turkey pardon". Presidents have been presented with turkeys since the time of Abraham Lincoln, but it was president Bush whp first officially pardoned a turkey in 1989, sparing the bird from being killed. Since then, the President has saved one turkey from the Thanksgiving table each year by granting a formal perdon

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                                     BLACK FRIDAY

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                                     BLACK FRIDAY

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What Black Friday is

The day After Thanksgiving (Friday) is known as Black Friday. This also is unofficially or officially start of holiday shopping season. Almost all stores come out with Doorbuster Sales with early bird special to attract consumers to their stores. People stand in line hours before store is opened, to grab the bargain of the year. Almost every store has something that interests every one. For bargain hunters, if there is a biggest festival in a year, that would be, no doubt, the Black Friday. In last few years(starting from 2013 to be precise),Black Friday Sales have started way before Friday-with some stores starting their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving day & some even starting on Wednesday. It would not be surprizing to see Black Friday sale starting from Monday on that week.

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                             THE ENGLISH BIBLE

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                             THE ENGLISH BIBLE

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The Pilgrim Fathers

1620: English puritans sailed from England to America, with the Bible as their guiding book.

They looked upon themselves as God's chosen people.

The new settlers of America called themselves "Pilgrim Fathers".

The translation of the Bible

Humanism have applied Greek fundamental in the translation of the Old and New Testament into English.

1552: Marthin Luther had translated the Bible into German, to make the word of God available to the common mand and woman.

1661: In England the movement culminated in the Authorized Version of the Bibble ( the King James I Bible).

It now represents the definitive answer to eighty years of attempts to give the correct version of the Bible.

The literary influence of the Bible

It has been the most influential book on English poets and prose writers.

Biblical allusions can be found in Shakespeare's plays, as well as in Eliot's modernist poems.

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It's one of the best examples of how much the idea of America and the voyages of the English Puritans there were in the people's mind.

Bermudas were imagined to be an exotic, magical place.

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                                   ENGLISH PURITANS IN AMERICA

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                                   ENGLISH PURITANS IN AMERICA

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The first Stuart king

After Queen Elizabeth's death, the throne of England went to James I.

He demonstrated his belief in the divine right of kings to rule and the subjection of the Parliament to the will of the king.

He insisted on strict conformity to the rites of the Anglican church.

Conformity to the Anglican Church was required to hold public office, so Catholics and Puritans were excluded from government.

Catholic and Puritan dissent

English Catholics organised the Gunpowder Plot: they tried to blow up the king and Parliament in session.

The plot was denounced and many Catholics were executed.

1620: a group of Puritans called the "pilgrim Fathers" sailed to America on the Mayflower, where they founded New Plymouth in Massachusetts.

This was the first English settlement in North America and the beginning of what was to become the United States.

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Anglicans vs Puritans

The struggle between Anglicans and Puritans reflected major political changes in England since the 15th century.

The centre of power in Parliament had been moving from the House of Lords to the House of Commons, represented by merchants and the landed gentry.

They felt that their interests weren't taken in account ( they had to pay takes to finance government policies).

The conflict was also religious, given that this mentality suited better to Puritanism than to Anglican Church.

The Puritans' appeal to the mercantile classes:

Puritan austerity fitted in well with the lifestyle of people who made work.

Puritan insistence on predestination, with the belief that to have God on one's side meant success in business.

Their belief in unrestricted individualism in commeciarl matters ( basis for the Industrial revolution).

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Utopia

Thomas More's Utopia is partly in the form of a travel book and whose ideal society is located in the New World.

The word "utopian" was introduced in English language after his book.

The laws and customs of the Utopians, such as property in common and their dislike of gold, resembled those of the native Americans.

Travel accounts

The tradition of the Golden Age and the Garden of Eden will later influence Shakespeare's The Tempest

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                     EUROPEANS VS NATIVE AMERICANS

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                     EUROPEANS VS NATIVE AMERICANS

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Two opposing views of the NAtive Americans

America discovery was a cultural shock.

Native Americans were seen as little more than animals. A spanish humanist defined them as homunculi.

On the other hand, they were classified as normal people with different traits.

the first position prevailed.

Montaigne's essay on cannibals

He was a writer and a philosopher.

He wrote Des Cannibales.

There he defends the Native Americans, who were accused of being savages and cannibals.

With this, he introduced cultural relativism.

Italian writers on the New World

Ludovico Ariosto: in Orlando Furioso he celebrates the conquest as an instrument divine providence.

Torquato Tasso: In Gerusalemme Liberata, he calls the americans as barbarous pagan and man-eaten.

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WHAT'S IN A NAME? AMERICA, FLORIDA, VIRGINIA.

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WHAT'S IN A NAME? AMERICA, FLORIDA, VIRGINIA.

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America: it was named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

Florida: it was so called by the Spanish conquistadores because it was a land full of flowers.

Virginia: in honor of Queel Elizabeth I, who was unmarried and so, by definition, a virgin.

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Same language?
There are not just differences in pronunciation, but even in accents, words, set phrases and syntax.
Language travels
Some degrees of variation always occur when a language travels through time or space.

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God is presented as a good sheperd, who feed his flock and leads it. He guides his flock through deep, dry valleys and the sheep are not afraid. God is presented as a generous host, who feeds his guests when they are persecuted by enemies and gives them shelter forever

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It's the most famous sermon preached by Jesus Christ to the crowds which followed him. It contains the core of the Christian doctrine, especially the idea that the poor and the less fortunate on earth will be blessed in heaven. The language is simple and moving. The simplicity of Christ's language here stresses his revolutionary message of the greatest loove for all mankind

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Animated film

It was the first animated film by Disney.

It shows the meeting between the Native American princess Pocahontas and John Smith, an english settler.

It was a worldwide succes.

Live-action film

The New World, created by Terrence Malick, focuses more on authenticity.

It uses Native American actors speaking a form of the archaic Powhtan language.

The villages were created by archaeological evidence and historical research.

Historical figure

The real Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the chief of a group of tribes from the Tidewater region of Virginia.

Pocahontas saved the life of John Smith by putting her head over his when her father wanted to execute him.

Pocahontas was captured by the English.

During her imprisonment, she changed her name to Rebecca and converted to Christianity.

The first interracial marriage in America

When she was released, she decided to stay with the English.

She married John Rolfe and had a son, Thomas.

Pocahontas was presented to the English society as a civilised "savage".

During a trip, she became very ill and died for unknown causes at the age of 22.

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The history of American Indians of North America

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How the Europeans came and forced American Indians off their land.

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The invention of the press

1450: invention of the mechanical printing technology by Gutenberg.

1475: the first book in English was printed by William Caxton. It was the Bible.

The cultural and social impact

The printing revolution introduced the era of mass communication;

It threatened the power of political and religious authorities;

The middle class was emerging;

It rised the proto-nationalism.

The age of newspapers

The printed word acquired even more power with the large circulation of magazines and newspapers;

Now newspapers could be brought daily to a person's door;

The idea that everything that was printed was true became common.

From the printing revolution to the internet revolution
In our time, printing in the old forms of presses, books and magazines has been challenged by a new way of diffusin words through the use of electronical devices such as computers- in a phrase, the Internet world.

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Born of a wealthy Protestant family, he studied at St Paul's School and graduated from Cambridge in 1632;

He was a Christian humanist who sided with the Puritans during the Civil War.

He became Secretary of State under Cromwell.

He wrote many pamphlets in defence of the Commonwealth.

His Sonnets deal with both personal and public subjects.

After the fail of the Commonwealth, he retired from public life and wrote Paradise Lost.

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THE PURITAN EPIC: MILTON'S PARADISE LOST 

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THE PURITAN EPIC: MILTON'S PARADISE LOST 

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Satan takes possesion of Hell

In this episode, Satan speaks bravely and beautifully, as a king.

He must change the light of heaven for the darkness of hell.

Satana has not lost his pride, which was the original cause of his fall: he wanted to be equal to God.

He affirms the superiority of mind over external circustamces.

Heaven and Hell are interchangeable, because what really matters is to be free and have power.

Satan's final phrase sums up his pride: "Better to reign in hell, than serve in Heaven."

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It deals with the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve by the serpent in the Garden of Eden and man's subsequent loss of paradise.

It's the greatest of the Renaissance epics.

Milton gives the classical elements (Homer's Iliad, etc..) a Christian interpretation.

It's a theological work, but it's also historical.

Milton praises man's reason and free will, but he also warns against man's weakness and especially his pride.

He gives Satan the rhetorical voice of a great leader who has lost everything expect his self-confidence.

The Romantics saw Satan as the epitome of the dark solitary hero.

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Science and the Royal Society

1660: foundation of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Learning.

It was composed by worthy persons curious about the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy.

Experemintal science was directly connected with the philosophy of Empiricism, based on direct experience.

Members of the Society included mathematicians such as Isaac Newton.

A new plain prose style

The language adopted by the Royal members returned back to the primitive purity and shortness.

The Society was central in the culture of its day and it included writers as Jonathan Swift, writer of Gulliver's Travels.

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Diaries, biographies and letters

With the Restoration, men and women recorded their impression of daily events in diares and biographies.

The two most famous diarist were Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.

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When the previous St Paul's Cathedral was destroyed by the Great Fire of London, Charles II designed Christopher Wren as the architect of the new project.

It was made in Baroque style with some classical elements ( columns, porch, pediment).

It has three galleries: the Whispering Gallery, The stone Gallery, The Golden gallery.

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THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF GREAT BRITAIN 

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THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF GREAT BRITAIN 

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Why Glorious Revolution? Because it was bloodless.

It was followed by: the Bill of Rights estabilished that the Crown couldn't reign without the Parliament; the Toleration Act granted dissenters freedom of religion; the Act of Settlment ensured that within the royal family only Protestants could reign.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe's first novel, is something totally new.

The main character is a simple merchant, a middle-class man travelling for profit.

The story is modelled on that of a real person: Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who was abandoned on a desert island.

From the news to film: Into the Wild

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About the author: Mary Shelley

She fell in love and married with Percy Shelly;

She wrote her Frankestein in mid eighteen tens

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Influences and inspirations

She conceived the story line while she was in Geneva with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron;

conversations on natural philosophers such as Darwin and Erasmus led her to dream about a scientist giving life to her own creation;

This became the modern Prometheus written by incorporating gothic horror, the supernatural and science fiction.

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Settings and era

Set in the 18th century, it takes place in various European places (Switzerland, Germany, England and Scotland);

Influenced by the idea that electricity could bring to life an organism;

Influenced by John Milton and Samuel Taylor's poetry

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Victor Frankestein

Born in Geneva, Frankestein is captivated by science and begins experimenting with reanimation in university.

He quickly abandoned his work after one experiment produces a horrifying monster.

His subsequent decisions, involving the monster eventually, lead to the death of his beloved ones

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The monster

He has yellow eyes and skin and black lips and hair. Eight foot tall; frame and straight white teeth.

The monster is revolting upon first impression.

It learns to speak and read by observing humans from afar.

His physical appearance drives people away.

Frankestein itself refuses to complete the task of creating its mate, but the monster responds with anger.

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Values and themes

Themes revolve around the potential for destruction in one's quest for knowledge and how unnatural forces can lead to monstrous results.

The mysteries of science and nature provide a backdrop for the lessons and experiences of the novel's characters.

the book also raises ethical issues with respect to Frankestein's act of giving life to a nonliving thing and wether or not human beings should be able to do this

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A scene from the film "Frankestein", 1931

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It's Alive! - Frankenstein (2/8) Movie CLIP (1931) HD

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Plot
Frankestein opens with Captain Robert Walton's letters to his sister and continues with a narrative by a scientist named Victor Frankestein. After giving life to an inanimate creature, Frankestein is convinced to build a mate for his creation. But when he demolishes this new creation, the angry monster kills the scientist's friend and wife. Frankestein swear revenge but dies after meeting Walton leading to the saddened monsters decision to sacrifice itself.

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A "funny" way to learn Frankestein's plot

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Mary Shelley, 1818
Famous for: Frankenstein's monster, of course. And a mad chase toward the North Pole.

In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley crafted a plot that captivated millions, and served as the grist for dozens of Hollywood adaptations. But there's more to Shelley's story than a mad scientist and his killing machine. Indeed, the plot of Frankenstein haunts in more ways than one.

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Frankenstein | Plot | 60second Recap® Decoder™

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Mary Shelley, 1818 Famous for: Frankenstein's monster, of course. And a mad chase toward the North Pole. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley crafted a plot that captivated millions, and served as the grist for dozens of Hollywood adaptations. But there's more to Shelley's story than a mad scientist and his killing machine.

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type of work  · Novel
genre  · Victorian novel; realist novel; satire
time and place written  ·  1854, London
narrator  · The anonymous narrator serves as a moral authority.
point of view  · The narrator speaks in the third person and has a limited omniscience.
tone  · The narrator’s tone is ironic, mocking, and even satirical.
setting (time)  · The middle of the nineteenth century
setting (place)  · Coketown, a manufacturing town in the south of England

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The poem opens in Seville, where the sixteen-year-old Don Juan falls in love with Donna Julia, who is already married to a man. When scandal breaks, he is forced to leave Spain and he is shipwrecked on a Greek island, where he is looked after by Haidée, daughter of a pirate. When the pirate finds out about the two of them, he sends Juan to Instabul, where he is sold as a slave. After some adventures, Juan ends up in England.

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

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-Sixteen cantos;
-Comic or satirical epic;
-It satirizes individuals, social codes and governments;
-It presents follies, tragedy and farce;
-It describes lack of loyalty, sincerity, love and compassion.

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themes  · The destructiveness of a love that never changes; the precariousness of social class
motifs  · the conflict between nature and culture
symbols  · The moors, ghosts

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themes  · The mechanization of human beings; the opposition between fact and fancy
symbols  · black bricks; smoke serpents

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type of work  · Novel
genre  · Gothic novel (with scenes of passion and cruelty; supernatural elements; and a dark atmosphere).
time and place written  · In 1846–1847, Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights in the parsonage of the isolated village of Haworth, in Yorkshire.
narrator  · Lockwood narrates the entire novel as an entry in his diary. The story that Lockwood records is told to him by Nelly and Lockwood writes most of the narrative in her voice.
point of view  · Most of the events are narrated from Nelly’s point of view. Nelly frequently comments on what the other characters think and feel, but these comments are all based on her own interpretations of the other characters—she is not an omniscient narrator.
setting (time)  · The action of Nelly’s story begins in the 1770s; Lockwood leaves Yorkshire in 1802.
setting (place)  · All the action of Wuthering Heights takes place in or around two neighboring houses on the Yorkshire moors—Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

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type of work  · Novel
genre  · Children’s story; detective story; novel of social protest
narrator  · Anonymous narrator
point of view  · The narrator is third person omniscient, and assumes the points of view of various characters in turn.
tone  · Sentimental, sometimes ironic, hyperbolic
setting (time)  ·  1830s
setting (place)  · London and suburbs

themes  · The failures of charity; the folly of individualism; purity in a corrupt city; the countryside idealized

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Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights (1992 Video starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche HD)

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We'll Go No More a-Roving by George Gordon, Lord Byron (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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Paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw There's a video on Vimeo using this reading http://vimeo.com/channels/1341/42168505 SO, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright.

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Paul 'scruffy' Martin tells the story of William Wordsworth (7th April 1770 - 23rd April 1850) who was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

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SO WE'LL GO NO MORE A ROVING- LORD BYRON

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SO WE'LL GO NO MORE A ROVING- LORD BYRON

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Life:

Born in Dublin in 1854 and studied in Oxford;

He was and acclaimed writer and wit and an authority on fashion among London's high society;

He was the leader of the Aesthetic movement;

He was imprisoned in the Reading Jail.

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Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights Dance & Lyrics

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This is a video project I worked on for a 6 weeks exam talk show project.

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The moral lesson of "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde is that the worst aspects of modern society can be overcome by love and charity, which have the unique ability to unite men and make them whole. Wilde wrote the fairy tale during the Victorian era, when the East End of London was awash with the suffering and forced labor of children, many of whom were forced into prostitution and almost all of whom lived in abject poverty. This social context is generally accepted as the inspiration for the story.

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Written after his experience in jail (1897);

No trace of Aestheticism;

Symbolic and social meaning;

Soldier: sacrificial victim who pays for man's sins;

Plea for prison reform.

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Comical allegory;

It takes its title form Nehru's speech;

He includes a vast range of Eastern and Western traditions, languages and genres;

The mode of writing has been defined "magic realism";

Narrative technique described as a bricolage;

He uses ironical and satirical tone.

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troppo piccolo!!!!!!!

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Key points:

The cult of beautiful things;

The search of pleasure and artistic emotion as the goal of life;

A proclaimed indifference to moral and social issues;

Mistery and horror.