My E-Portfolio -Danilo Fortugno- by Danilo Fortugno https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno A Collection of Ideas suggested by our English Teacher at "Liceo A.Volta “ in Reggio Calabria and my personal comments and researches on the themes presented. Years: 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 en-us 2017-10-06 14:52:30 UTC 2024-10-24 05:25:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/227796236/68288dd6b3d680dde249a3a1c9af725b/British_Flag_wallpaper_9586130.jpg My Favourite description danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/205790290 I love it. 
I've choosen this because I think Literature is a way to explain our common emotions and make them special.]]> 2017-11-10 18:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/205790290 Hamlet danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249782681 2018-04-09 13:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249782681 Macbeth danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249790729 2018-04-09 13:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249790729 Romeo and Juliet danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249805312 This is my favourite Scene of "Romeo and Juliet"
Because Mercutio is my favourite character for his courage and his symphaty, and his death stuck my deeply.

]]> 2018-04-09 13:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249805312 Sonnet 130 danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249828167 I really loved this sonnet because it is controversial and isn't like the others, but in its originality represents the real woman with her merits and defects.]]> 2018-04-09 14:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/249828167 Rise of the Middle Class danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305524198 2018-11-17 10:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305524198 Printing Revolution danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305525665 2018-11-17 11:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305525665 Rise of The Novel danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305526104 2018-11-17 11:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305526104 John Milton danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305526346 John Milton was a great English writer of the 17th Century he was also a great believer in liberty and his most important work was Paradise Lost.]]> 2018-11-17 11:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305526346 Daniel Defoe danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305526387 Daniel Defoe is believed to be the father of the novel with his fantastic work Robinson Crusoe]]> 2018-11-17 11:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/305526387 Top 10 Notes About Frankenstein giovannagulli62 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317014362 2019-01-02 10:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317014362 giovannagulli62 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317014828 Terrible work : when do you think to update your portfolio? no care about your language and literature learning, no self-regard, no respect for your teacher 's job , really sorry!]]> 2019-01-02 10:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317014828 The Gothic Novel danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317488454 The Gothic Novel is usually associated with a dark style which uses picturesque settings and mysteries to create suspance and a creepy atmoshpere. ]]> 2019-01-04 17:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317488454 FRANKENSTEIN danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317488784 Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, is one of the most popular romantic tale always retold in books and films. You can notice two factor: The effect of science and the macabre elements of Gothic Tales. Is a really fantastic book with a story which became a classic and every one know.

]]> 2019-01-04 17:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317488784 GLOBE THEATRE danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317492223 2019-01-04 17:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317492223 William Shakespeare danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317492798 2019-01-04 17:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317492798 The Sonnet danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499255 2019-01-04 17:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499255 The Shakespeare's Theatre danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499485 2019-01-04 17:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499485 Shakespeare's Language danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499733 2019-01-04 17:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499733 Romeo And Juliet danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499919 Romeo and Juliet, a tragic play by William Shakespeare, is the story of two star-crossed lovers who are plagued by the hatred and detestation of their respective families.

]]> 2019-01-04 17:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317499919 The Merchant of Venice danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317500043  The Merchant of Venice is one of the best drama of Shakespeare. Tell about the condition of the Jews in that period of time

]]> 2019-01-04 17:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317500043 Othello danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317500361 One of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, Othello is concerned with the themes of jealousy and possessiveness, gullibility and blind passion, and the dangers that can arise from a failure to see beyond the surface appearances

]]> 2019-01-04 18:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317500361 Macbeth danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317500543 Macbeth is the story of a murderer and usurper, like Richard III or Claudius -Hamlet- from crime to crime to achieve security and power.

]]> 2019-01-04 18:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/317500543 Frankenstein Favourite Adaptation danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/318649056 I really like this, beacuse is a new way to see the classic story of Frankenstein with a big use of action and special effects unusually in a film like Frankenstein]]> 2019-01-09 06:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/318649056 Mary Shelley short biography danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/318649268 Mary Shelley was born in 1797, she was the daughter of a radical philosopher and of the pioneer feminist, so she grew up with particular but right ideal. She stabilized in Geneva and in that time she wrote Frankenstein in anonymous.
She died in 1851.]]> 2019-01-09 06:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/318649268 Frankenstein Favourite scene danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/318652592 I Really like this scene because here,you can see the ambitious of the doctor Frankenstein and the pain and agony of him, when he saw which is the prize of someone who tried the impossible just go against the real way of life goes.]]> 2019-01-09 06:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/318652592 FRANKENSTEIN KEY WORDS danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/319491446 2019-01-10 21:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/319491446 Science Behind Frankenstein danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/320095970 This is a interesting article I have found about the science of the human body in relate with Frankenstein, and how Mary Shelley anticipated some of them.]]> 2019-01-13 20:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/320095970 Everthing you need to know to read Frankenstein danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/326997048 2019-02-02 21:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/326997048 Cast Away danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/326997290 This is a modern version of Robinson Crusoe, i've watched this and i really liked how it is presented. This is a scene.]]> 2019-02-02 22:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/326997290 Lord Byron's Sonnet Comment danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/326997661 I agree in part with this sonnet, because i think that roving every day is only a wat to waste your time and you can use it in a better way, but sometime you have to do this because is also important to stay with friends and have fun with them.]]> 2019-02-02 22:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/326997661 PRE-ROMANTIC MAP danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/327032976 2019-02-03 09:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/327032976 ROMANTIC MAP danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/327033002 2019-02-03 09:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/327033002 Elegy written in a Country Churchyard danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/327033144 Written by Thomas Gray, This is one of the most important elegy of English Language, because it doesn't represent a peculiar setting of the elegy, but present a normal and poor country.]]> 2019-02-03 09:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/327033144 Early Romantic Poetry danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/335075178 Early Romantic si a cultural movement in Europe associated to Emotion and inner analysis. In art is associated with landscapes.]]> 2019-02-25 20:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/335075178 William Blake danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/335076426 William Blake was a famous poet, painter and engraver of the late 18th century, he was also a radical anti-authority figure.]]> 2019-02-25 20:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/335076426 Wuthering Heights danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/354394646 The novel Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte and talks about a complicated love story between Catherine and Heathcliff a foundling.]]> 2019-04-26 10:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/354394646 Wuthering Heights: Favourite Scene danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/354394888 This is one of my favourite scene, because we can see all the regret and the pain of Heathcliff, who tried in every way to get Catherine love, but was everything useless because Catherine herself refuse to listen to her heart.]]> 2019-04-26 10:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/354394888 Wuthering Heights: Map danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/354398089 2019-04-26 10:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/354398089 Ozymandias danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359218934 Ozymandias is a composing of  the poet Percy Shelley, this talks about a statue of a Pharaoh Ramses II, a very rude and conceinted commander who still in the art is remembered in this way (“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed”). The themes are: Death, Pride (Kings of Kings) and the role of poetry, art and culture, because the power disappear despite the attempts but the poetry is immortal (Resumes Shakespeare and Foscolo)]]> 2019-05-12 15:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359218934 Bright Star danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359219440 Bright Star is a composing of John Keats and talks about the impossible love of the poet to a girl. The themes are: Death (He had tuberculosis), Solitude (He is like an hermit, and this has a religious connotation), and the love is repesented in a sensual way (“ Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell”)]]> 2019-05-12 15:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359219440 Romanticism and Romantic Poet danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359219845 This is a Powerpoint i have made to make a scheme about the romantic poet we have studied in our english course.]]> 2019-05-12 15:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359219845 Bright Star -The Film danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359220084 This are some of the scenes of the Film Bright star, which talks about the love between Keats and Fanny.]]> 2019-05-12 15:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359220084 Bright Star -The Film danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359220347 This is the ending of the film.]]> 2019-05-12 15:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359220347 Birght Star -The Film danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359220495 And this is one of the most important scene, where Fanny react to the death of Keats]]> 2019-05-12 15:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359220495 Ode To a Nightingale danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359584363 Ode to a Nightingale is a composing of the poet John Keats, here he discuss about the difficulty to create poetry due to industrial revolution, which make people more selfish, and the poetry could be the only things to escape from this reality. ]]> 2019-05-13 17:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359584363 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359586103 I Wandered lonely as a cloud is a composing of the poet William Wordsworth.  Here the poet is alone walking through the countryside, when he stops due the vision of the daffodils (Personification), and admire the nature aroud him.
In the last part there is the example about how the poetry is created.]]> 2019-05-13 17:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359586103 William Wordsworth danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359589345 William Wordsworth is one of the most important poet for the Romanticism, in fact he is considered the father of this literary genre in England. ]]> 2019-05-13 17:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/359589345 Victorian Age danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/360464065 The Victorian Age takes this name from Queen Victoria, who ruled at that time. In this period The British Empire was becoming increasingly important, bacause of the Colonization and the Industiral Revolution, and both made the British think they were the best and could do everything.
This age is also characterized by Povert, an important theme on wich poet will dwell.
"The Sun will never set on us" Queen Victoria
]]> 2019-05-15 17:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/360464065 Charles Dickens danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/360469858 Charles Dickens is the most important poet from the Victorian Age. He had a pessimistic vision of life probably due from his real life exprience, which also inspire him to write his works. In this operas he present the society of that time, characterized by poverty, social injustice, crime, with a point of view of the children (Ex. Oliver Twist), and this happen in a really realistic way.]]> 2019-05-15 17:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/360469858 Coketown -Hard Times danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/361491305 Coketown is the city of the Charles Dickens' poem Hard Times. This city represent the industrialized city of that time. In this description Dickens use a lot of irony, similies, and  metaphors to make people understand the sense of alienation of the workers, and to move a critic to the City, the Religion, and
 School.
"The same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tommorow."
]]> 2019-05-19 14:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/361491305 Oliver Twist danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/361493552 This opera written by Charles Dickens represent the hard life of a little boy, Oliver Twist, who have an angelic character. His story represent the Life of boy and girls without a family in London and what they have to do to survive.
"Please, sir, I want some more." -Oliver Twist
]]> 2019-05-19 14:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/361493552 Oscar Wilde danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/364139615 This is a Powerpoint made by me where there is all the things that I and my class studied about Oscar Wilde. Here there is also my favourite quotation, I like it a lot because represent in a true way how a pessimist think and i know it because I'm little pessimist too.
“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.” -Oscar Wilde
]]> 2019-05-28 19:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/364139615 The Picture Of Dorian Gray danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/397006369 This is a Powerpoint made by me where there is the important things about the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which i have read previously. Here there is also my favourite quote of the book.
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
]]> 2019-10-12 16:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/397006369 The Ballad of Reading Goal danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/405749823 In this poem Oscar Wilde decided to transform that suffering experience in art.
He explains the reality of the prison and criticizes the society and the church of his time in the typical aesthetic style.
"Suffering is one very long moment"
-Oscar Wilde
]]> 2019-11-02 15:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/405749823 The Potrait Of Dorian Gray Favourite Adaptation danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/408345327 I really like this one because i think that it represent in the better way the aesthetic movement becauseof  the strong color that was used, despite the story is setted in the modern era.
If I have to decide for the way the story is presented i must decide the adaptation of the 1945.]]> 2019-11-07 20:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/408345327 Top 10 Notes about: The Picture of Dorian Grey danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/408348029 This is a little video about the main features about "The Picture of Dorian Gray".]]> 2019-11-07 20:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/408348029 "De Profundis" -One of the greatest love letters ever written danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/408350140 This Article talks about "De Profundis" wrote by Oscar Wilde during his life in prison. He wrote it using a ploy: He pretend to wrote a letter, but in the end he wrote this. It is in some way a letter to his lover -Douglas-, because here Wilde wrote like a discussion about things that he couldn't say in other time so he have to do this in that exact moment.
But in the end with this letter he accused Douglas to distract Oscar from his work and poetry.]]> 2019-11-07 20:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/408350140 The White Man's Bargain -Kipling danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420961807 This text wrote by Kipling talks about the mission of the colonizer, who have to civilize other population, and in the end Kilpling say that probably he would get killed because the other man aren't grateful and respectful.]]> 2019-12-06 19:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420961807 I Hear America Singing -Whitman danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420962621 This text wrote by Whitman talks about America with all the people who are singing corals.
Here Whitman intention was to create a image of an America based on honesty and work.]]> 2019-12-06 19:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420962621 O Captain! My Captain! -Whitman danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420964254 This text wrote by Whitman talks about people who are happy for the victory with not care about
their captain who "fallen cold and dead". The only sad is the writer.]]> 2019-12-06 19:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420964254 The Soldier -Brooke danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420965029 This text wrote by Brooke talks about nationalism because he exalts England. He also represent
the soldier like a classical hero who died for his country.]]> 2019-12-06 19:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420965029 Glory Of Women -Sassoon danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420965818 This text wrote by Sassoon talks against women because them trying to found positive aspect to
the war, but the writer says that war is a tragedy without heroes.]]> 2019-12-06 19:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420965818 Dulce Et Decorum -Owen danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420966535 This text wrote by Owen talks about the horror of the war with a description of the death of one
of his companion and how the dead body is treated. It ends saying to not convince kids to try to get glory with war.
("The old Lie")]]> 2019-12-06 19:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420966535 The Scarlet Letter -Nathaniel Hawthorne danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420968029 This poem wrote by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about  love, sin, guilt and repentance.
Is a hystorical novel and the main theme is the internal conflict of a coscience.]]> 2019-12-06 19:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420968029 The Drums of War danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420970294 2019-12-06 19:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/420970294 Dorian Gray 2009 Adaptation -Comment danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/422351643 The 2009 adaptation Of Oscar Wilde's Opera is the most accurate and similar to the book.
The director tryed, succeeding, to make spectator understand the "evolution" (It's better say "regression") of Dorian, and made it using always more often, during the film, sentences hard and cruel.
So i really like this film despite i thing that didn't respect only the values of the Aesthetic movement.]]> 2019-12-10 18:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/422351643 The Scarlet Letter 1995 Adaptation -Comment danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/424737902 I Like this movie because represent in the best way possible the central idea of the book: Love, sin, guilt. The base of the story is the religion and this concept remain in the minds of the spectators with the Reverendo' Speech. I like also how the concept of the Values of the Puritans is rappresented due the settings (Forest, Campaign, ecc...)]]> 2019-12-16 20:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/424737902 Oh Captain, My Captain -Carpediem danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427961481 This is a representation of the Whitman's Poem in the film "Carpediem"]]> 2020-01-06 15:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427961481 UK And Us contemporary history danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427976986 2020-01-06 15:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427976986 Whitman & Dickinson danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427978417 2020-01-06 15:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427978417 Edward Morgan Foster danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427979729 Is one of the most important writer who wrote about the colonization in India.
In his opera "Passage to India" he evidence the impossibility to mix the two culture (Indian and British) . He sees the imperialism a negative aspect because he wants equality.]]> 2020-01-06 15:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/427979729 Kipling & Rushdie danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/428007105 This is a Powerpoint I've Made about Kipling and Rushdie.]]> 2020-01-06 16:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/428007105 George Orwell danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/431942587 He was an Anglo-Indian. He was poor and got Money to study only thanks to a scholarship. He decided to "escape" from imperialism and decided to refuse his upper class priviliges.]]> 2020-01-15 16:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/431942587 Nineteen Eighty-Four -George Orwell danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/431946021 Is an Anti-Utopian Novel where a tyrannical power control people using thecnology. This tyrannical power is represented by "Big Brother" which is the symbol of the total control by mass media.]]> 2020-01-15 16:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/431946021 Animal Farm -George Orwell danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/431949441 Is a political fable. It's a parody of the Sovietic Revolution and for this he criticizes socialism. For him revolution aren't useful because will put people under new form of oppression.]]> 2020-01-15 16:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/431949441 Thomas Eliot danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/448033079 Thomas Eliot is the most important poet of the Modernism Era and the founder as well with his work "Waste Land". This work talks about the sterility of spirituality that Eliot had found in his contemporary due the I World War.]]> 2020-02-20 14:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/448033079 James Joyce danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/448835637 Joyce is one of the most important writer of the Modernism Era. He is the first who used the "Stream of consciousness" technique and invented the "Epiphany". As the same as Eliot, Joyce talks about the theme of Paralysis.]]> 2020-02-21 20:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/448835637 James Joyce danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/448836463 2020-02-21 20:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/448836463 The Hollow Men -T.S. Eliot danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/456206818 This title came from the union of two other titles: "Hollow Land" and "Broken Man" by Kipling.
In this text Eliot represent his idea of man who is empty in the inside and walk without a reason in a dead land. There are many reference to Religion and christianity.]]> 2020-03-07 11:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/456206818 Virginia Woolf danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479673969 Virginia Woolf is one of the most important writer of the 20th century. She suffered fro. depression and she thought that her art came from this feeling.
Every work she had written isn't wrote in the common ways: She refused the traditional plot and prefer the "stream of consciousness" technique.  She used the time in a new way, because she expand it to give more space for the inner analysis, she used the "time of the mind".]]> 2020-03-28 14:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479673969 Ernest Hemingway danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479688945 Ernest Hemingway is a writer who describes a world without value and every of his character  is disillusioned by life.
His style is called economical prose style, because it's very simple.
He wrote also about the war in his worK "Farewell to Arms"; it is very realistic because he partecipated in the WW1.]]> 2020-03-28 15:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479688945 The Hours -Film danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479692764 This film talks about Virginia Woolf and, in particular, her work "Mrs. Dalloway".
In this pelicula is well presented her conception of time, because also in the film a lot of time is dedicated to the Inner Analysis.
Also the link between life it is well done, because only in the end you understand all the connection between the lifes of every character.]]> 2020-03-28 15:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479692764 The Truman Show -Film danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479696028 This film Is the perfect representation of the world that George Orwell had imaginated.
The world where Truman lives is full of videocameras that follow him in everything he does. It is a fake world and The life Truman lives isn't real because everything is built before. 
I liked this film because represent the real world as well, full of ipocrity and fake people and full of videocameras too.]]> 2020-03-28 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479696028 The Great Gatsby -Film danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479700457 This cinematic adaptation of the novel "The Great Gatsby" written by Fitzegerald is really well made. With this film is examined the "Jazz Age Generation" and the failure of the "American Dream"]]> 2020-03-28 15:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/479700457 Francis Scott Fitzgerald danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512881455 Francis Scott Fitzgerald is the symbol of the "Jazz Age". In his works, in particular in "The Great Gatsby", he describes The new Amerian Generation build up without values and in a world made only by luxury and beauty.]]> 2020-04-17 13:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512881455 Jack Kerouac danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512896447 Jack Kerouac is the leading figure of the "Beat Generation". In his novels he express a romantic anarchism, in particular in his best and famous work "On the Road".]]> 2020-04-17 13:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512896447 On the Road -Film danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512902774 This is the cinematic adaptation of the novel "On the Road" written by Kerouac. In main theme of the film, and the novel as well, is the Journey trough America made by the protagonists. Is highlited in particular the Disilussion, the sense of loneliness and Lost that they feel. But is also showed how brilliant they are and how much wise they feels.]]> 2020-04-17 13:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512902774 The Beat Generation danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512916588 The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of writers during the post-war era. They had some central elements, like freedom in life and in the narrative style as weel. They were influenced by Romanticism and French Surrealism. The name came from Kerouac, but for him the word "Beat" means different, because for him it was like "outcast" or "different" and it is strongly linked with Music.]]> 2020-04-17 14:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512916588 The Lost Generation danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512955044 After the First World War, the tones of literature were dominated by disillusionment and dislocation. In this period Paris became che centre of the American Literature. The common images of this period were images of waste, sterility, and cultural and moral decline.]]> 2020-04-17 14:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/512955044 Edgar Lee Masters danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/515379928 Edgar Lee Masters was an American Author, he wrote at the begining narrative poems and then he changed to free verse. He is the voice of Provincial America; he celebrated the landscapes and the heritage of the Midwestern world.
All of this theme are presented in his main work "Spoon River Antohology".]]> 2020-04-19 13:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/515379928 Spoon River Anthology and The Hill -Edgar Lee Masters danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/515384032 Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems, all in the form of the epitaphs. He described the small town and presented it like a microuniverse where all care for each other.
This is underlined in the first poem "The Hill" where he talks about the people of the city and despite all their lives were different they share a common destiny.
Also Fabrizio de Andre made a song from this poem.]]> 2020-04-19 13:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/515384032 Samuel Beckett danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/541194751 Samuel Beckett was the inventor of the Theatre of the Absurd. In his plays there is the description of human condition, which ends always with the two main topics: The Inability to communicate and loneliness.]]> 2020-04-30 08:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/541194751 Waiting for Godot -Samuel Beckett danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/541197504 "Waiting for Godot" is the most important plays of Samuel Beckett.
In this work he describes a static world that never change, there isn't a plot and the story has a cirucular structure.
There is no time and the words are used only to fill the silence, but he preefers the non-verbal language.
The world he describes is also without superfluities, has only essentials things to highlight the tragic human condition.]]> 2020-04-30 08:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/541197504 Robert Frost danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/561784452 Robert Frost in considered the finest American poet. He lived a difficult life, he lost his father at the age of 11 and lived in the poverty for a long period. At the age of 38, in 1912, he moved to London where he met Ezra Pound who helped him to publish his poetry. Thanks to her he became famous and was honoured as a National Poet.
In his poems he talks about rural life where the characters, the settings and the languge has a metaphorical dimension.]]> 2020-05-09 18:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/561784452 The Road Not Taken -Robert Frost danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/561787347 This piece of poetry is a hymn to nonconformity. The poet talks about two roads, one travelled by everyone, and another that seems almost new.
With his words he says that sometimes is better to travel long a new way that no one has used than travel over a road that everyone has traveled.
I Took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
]]> 2020-05-09 18:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/561787347 Emily Dickinson danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/576568515 Emiliy Dickinson was born in Massachusetts in 1830. She didn't have an eventuful life. She seclude herself in her father home because she was agoraphobic.
her poetry is a microcosm, build up from her metaphysical vision of the world. In her poems she express joyful feelings, but there is always a deep melancholy.
Her poems are short written in quatrains with a unusual syntax and a peculiar use of capital letters and punctuation.]]> 2020-05-16 10:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/576568515 Hope is The Thing -Emily Dickinson danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/576570062 In this poem there is a link between the abstract and the natural world.
It is an extended metaphor: The hope is represented by a bird who sings even in the most difficult situations and then it doesn't ask anything back.]]> 2020-05-16 10:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/576570062 If I Can Stop -Emily Dickinson danilofortugno01 https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/576570964 In this poem the central messagge is to not be heratless or callous in our life, because only if we help the next one we could life a meaningful life.]]> 2020-05-16 10:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/danilofortugno01/DaniloFortugno/wish/576570964