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It's a comical allegory of indian history. It takes its name from Nehru's speech when India got indipendence. The poet use a vaste range of genres and languages in a writing techinque called, magic realism. The novel is a bricolage of styles and themes. His novel has a ironical tone that sometimes become satirical.

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Midnight's Children Official Trailer #2 (2013) - Satya Bhabha Drama HD

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He was born in Bombay (1947) in a muslim middle-class family. When he was  child he has been sent in England where he got a degree in History at Cambridge University.
Then he worked as an actor in Pakistan. Then he has been sentenced by the Iranian Ayatollah for his Satanic Verses, and now he's living in England. He use the theme of metamorphosis, exile and rootlessness in the contemporary world.

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This is considered Forster's masterpiece. It can be divided in three parts, taht correspond to three indian season: Mosque(cool weather),  Caves(hot weather),  Temple(rain). The main themes are:
-The constrast between British and Indian cultures.
-A strong critic to the imperialistic movement.

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He studied in Cambridge. He travelled a lot in Italy and India, in fact in his first novel he wrote about the contrast between the English gentility and Italian vitality. After being in Egypt he returned in India and then he wrote his masterpiece, A Passage To India. He was a traditional writer but he use unconventional themes.

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In this poem Kipling explores the theme of manhood, hard work and virtues. He want to persuade his son to become a man using narrative techiniques that give a evocative tone to the poem.

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According to some critics it's the best Kipling novel. The main themes of the novel are:
-India and its culture, nature and people.
-the relationship between British and Indians.
In the novel the poet use an evocative language that  fascinate all time readers.

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The poet celebrate the Empire in stories based in a patriotic view. British and all Europeans have to be proud of the ''burden'' they are carrying. Europeans don't have to discourage from continuing their civilising mission.

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In his stories he always presents India from the point of view of white men that have to overcome every type of difficulties.  The anglo-indians described by Kipling  have a strong sense of nationalism and superiotiy over natives. This particular view in the 20th century make Kipling recieved a lot of critics.

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He was born in India in 1865 and worked there for several years as a journalist and part-time story writer. His early Indian short stories made him famous in England and USA, in fact he won the Nobel Prize in 1907.

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Every excess must be punished and reality cannot be escaped. The horrible, corrupting picture could be seen as a symbol of the immorality and bad conscience of the Victorian middle class.The picture, restored to its original beauty, illustrates Wilde’s theories of art: art survives people, art is eternal.

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THE PREFACE TO THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

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THE PREFACE TO THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

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It's a collection of free-standing statement about the purpose of art, the role of artist and the value of beauty. He defines the artist like a person that create beautiful things and the critic like the peron who can translate in another manner his impression of beauty. The preface ends with an important statement ''all art is quite useless''.

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The poem is  built around the story of a soldier who has been condamned and hanged in prison for having killed his lover. The poem wants to highlights a fundamental injustice, that all men in different ways kill their love (some with words, with look, with money) but in the end only who openly killed the person who love is the only one who pays.

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Following aesthetic ideals,  Wilde looks to the artist like the only person who can create beautiful things, and he says that the art is something used only to celebrate beauty and sensorial pleasures

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He was born in Dublin in 1854. He completely follows the aesthetic doctrine. He was one of the most important playwriter of his time and this make him become a celebrity in that period. During his life he has been imprisoned for omosexuality . He died in Paris in 1900.