english litterature forever by Rita Murolo https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel school utilisation en-us 2017-05-07 16:43:42 UTC 2017-10-16 09:15:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png William Blake ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170372745 He was a political freethinker, an artist and a poet. He remained poor all his life and he was one of the many victims of negaive consequences of the industrial revolution. His career as an artist influenced his works as a poet and this is evident in his "illuminated printings" wich were his own drawings for the poems he wrote and this was something new for that age because no one used to publish his works with drawings. 
He introduced many new elements from a litterary point of view as :
1- the illuminated printings wich I expalined before.
2- the imagination:
It is the only way in wich it is possible to see the hidden world that with our senses we can't perceive. This gift is owned by the children and the poets.
3- the theory of the complementary opposites:
It derives from the Phylosopher Eraclito who found the lògos in this theory. It explains that if it doesn't exist the bad , it doesn't exist neither the good and so on. the example, for sure, in his poems is the opposition between innocence and experience.
4- the use of their own symbols.
He uses in his poems his symbols to explain what immagination tells the poet. For example, the children meant the innocence or lack of knowledge and the tyger is the symbol  of violence, corruption and experience. 
His verses have simple language and structure. ]]> 2017-05-07 16:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170372745 Sublime: Edmund Burke ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170374291 The concept of sublime was studied in the 1st century AD and it had been explained that it is matched to the beatiful but its origins derive from the passion of inspration we feel in our own soul. First of all, the sublime must be analysed from the point of view of the perceiver in fact we define today sublime as what causes in us astonishment, that makes us feel terror, happyness,pleasure and fear. the attraction towards sublime is the reason for wich terror, thriller and mistery novels are those genres we call evergreen.  
Edmund Burke adfirmed that sublime is present in nature and we can see it in dangerous animals as for example wild animals like the tyger and the lion, and poisonous snakes.]]> 2017-05-07 17:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170374291 the industrial revolution ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170375090 What is the industrial revolution?
we define this revolution as the cause from an economic point of view a change in the use of the sources we need in order to live in a developed society.
Did this event changed people's everyday life?
yes, in two ways:
1-the new view of reality
2-improving society and damnaging material and spiritual health.
How did theese changes happened?
During enlightement, people had a positive view of reality because of the fact that they could control reality and their destiny with the reason. With the coming of the industrial revolution, people changed their view of reality because of the negative consequences of this event as:
1-mushroom towns
2-terrible living conditions
3-terrible working conditions
4-too many working hours
5-expoitation of children and women.
This caused a life expectancy very low, a phisical wealth weak and the destruction of  the human being.
Even though theese terrible consequences damnaged people's life and health, there were many positive consequences that improved industrial society as :
1-new technology and inventions as Spinning Jenny and Water frame
2-development of factory system
3-new sources of power and transport.


]]> 2017-05-07 17:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170375090 the gothic novel ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170377259 the origin of the name gothic derives from three factors :
1- the gothic architecture, where is usually the setting in place of the novels.
2-the irregular opposed to the regular and classicism
3-the wild,  the supernatural and the mysterious of the object of narration.
All the gothic novels share the theme of the overreaching limits because this is a consequence of industrial revolution which made the man slave of forces he can't control.
other elements they share are celebration of terror, rejection and the exploration of unknown areas. The gothic novel is the expression of sublime.
It is characterised by terror, obscurity, uncertainty and horror caused by evil and atrocity.
there is the presence of supernatural beings, sensitive heroes,satanic and terrifyng male characters victims of their negative impulses.
First gothic authors:
1-Horace walpole - The castle of Otranto
2-Ann Radcliffe -The misteries of Udolpho
3-Mattew Lewis - The monk
4- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Modern Gothic writers:
1- E.A. Poe - The black cat
2-Bram Stocke - Dracula
3-R.L. Stevenson - Dr.Jeckyll and Mr.Hide
4-C.Bronte - Jane Eyre. 

]]> 2017-05-07 18:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170377259 Mary Shelley (1757-1851) ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170378722 Her parents ,who were famous writers, had been influenced by the ideas of the french revolution and she married the romantic poet Percy Shelley. The inspiration from wich Frankenstein derives is a nightmare she had. She had a great interest in science and this is evident in her novel. She grows up in a chritical periode that is the passage between the 18th and the 19th century, so the passage between enlightment and early romanticism. In this passage there is a sort of conflict between the power of reason and the power of feeling.
 Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most famous novel, Frankenstein. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835) and the posthumously published Mathilde. Shelley died of brain cancer on February 1, 1851, in London, England.
The family dynamics soon changed with Godwin's marriage to Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801. Clairmont brought her own two children into the union, and she and Godwin later had a son together. Shelley never got along with her stepmother. Her stepmother decided that her stepsister Jane (later Claire) should be sent away to school, but she saw no need to educate Shelley.

]]> 2017-05-07 18:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170378722 Frankenstein ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170379729 the plot
Dr.Frankenstein creates a human being by joining parts of corpses but the result is ugly and revolting. The monster becomes a murderer and at the end he destroys his creator.
The narrators
Capitain Walton who is an explorer, his sister Margareth Saville who is the personification of the writer and Dr. Frankenstein.
The themes
1-the overreaching of limits
2-the uncertainty in the control of life that reflects what is the life to face in the new industrialised world.
3-the quest for forbidden knowledge
4-the theme of the double
5-the penetration of nature's secrets
6-social prejudices
7-the conflict between reason and feeling in the fact that in the first part the scientist tries to talk to the monster to solve the situation from a reasonable point of view but since he kills his wife during the wedding night, the scientist will not consider anymore reason because the feeling of pain is too much to be reasonable.]]> 2017-05-07 18:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170379729 the lamb ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170472573 text
Little Lamb who made thee 
         Dost thou know who made thee 
Gave thee life & bid thee feed. 
By the stream & o'er the mead; 
Gave thee clothing of delight, 
Softest clothing wooly bright; 
Gave thee such a tender voice, 
Making all the vales rejoice! 
         Little Lamb who made thee 
         Dost thou know who made thee 

         Little Lamb I'll tell thee, 
         Little Lamb I'll tell thee!
He is called by thy name, 
For he calls himself a Lamb: 
He is meek & he is mild, 
He became a little child: 
I a child & thou a lamb, 
We are called by his name. 
         Little Lamb God bless thee. 
         Little Lamb God bless thee.
translation
Piccolo agnello chi ti creò?
  Lo sai chi ti creò?
  Ti diede la vita e ti insegnò a nutrirti
  Presso il ruscello e sul prato;
  dando a te il vestire gioioso,
  più soffice, lanoso, brillante;
  ti diede una tenera voce,
  facendo rallegrare tutte le valli?
  Piccolo agnello chi ti creò?
  Lo sai chi ti creò?
  Piccolo agnello, te lo dirò,
  piccolo agnello, te lo dirò.
  È chiamato dal tuo nome
  perchè è chiamato esso stesso agnello.
  È mansueto, e mite;
  divenne un piccolo bambino.
  Io un bambino, e tu un agnello,
  siamo chiamati dal suo nome.
  Piccolo agnello, Dio ti benedica!
  Piccolo agnello, Dio ti benedica!

the lamb is the symbol of innocence and with the child of the poem who is the personification of the poet because william blake thought that immagination is a gift owned by the children and the poet. it is present the theme of creation that is shared with the poem the tyger but the difference between the god that creates the lamb and the one who creates the tyger is that the one who creates the lamb is a god of goodness while the god who creates the tyger is a god of violence and corruption.


]]> 2017-05-08 11:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170472573 the tyger ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170474445 text
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 
In the forests of the night; 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

In what distant deeps or skies. 
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 
On what wings dare he aspire? 
What the hand, dare seize the fire? 

And what shoulder, & what art, 
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 
And when thy heart began to beat, 
What dread hand? & what dread feet? 

What the hammer? what the chain, 
In what furnace was thy brain? 
What the anvil? what dread grasp, 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp! 

When the stars threw down their spears 
And water'd heaven with their tears: 
Did he smile his work to see? 
Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 

Tyger Tyger burning bright, 
In the forests of the night: 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

translation
tigre! tigre! che brucia luminosa
nelle foreste della notte,
quale immortale mano o occhio
potrebbe creare questa spaventosa simmetria?

in quali distanti profondità o cieli
bruciava il fuoco di quegli occhi?
su quali ali osò aspirare?
quale mano osò sequestrare il fuoco?

e quale spalla, e quale arte,
potrebbe torcere i muscoli di questo cuore?
e quando questo cuore ha cominciato a battere,
quale mano di paura? E quali piedi di paura?

quale martello? quale catena?
in quale fornace era quel cervello?
quale incudine? quale terribile morsa?
osa trattenere i suoi mortali terrori?

quando le stelle gettarono le loro lance
e irriguarono il paradiso con le loro lacrime,
sorrise nel vedere il suo lavoro?
chi creò l'agnello fece questo? 

tigre! tigre! che brucia luminosa
nelle foreste della notte,
quale immortale mano o occhio
potrebbe creare questa spaventosa simmetria?

the tyger is the symbol of experience and corruption. the god who creates the tyger is an artisan and he is a god of vciolence. the oxymoron we see in "thy fearful symmetry" makes us see what connects william Blake to sublime.

]]> 2017-05-08 11:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170474445 rankenstein plot ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170485379 this is the complete plot of the novel "Frankenstein".
Successful early on, the mission is soon interrupted by seas full of impassable ice. Trapped, Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been traveling by dog-drawn sledge across the ice and is weakened by the cold. Walton takes him aboard ship, helps nurse him back to health, and hears the fantastic tale of the monster that Frankenstein created.
Victor first describes his early life in Geneva. At the end of a blissful childhood spent in the company of Elizabeth Lavenza (his cousin in the 1818 edition, his adopted sister in the 1831 edition) and friend Henry Clerval, Victor enters the university of Ingolstadt to study natural philosophy and chemistry. There, he is consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life and, after several years of research, becomes convinced that he has found it.
Armed with the knowledge he has long been seeking, Victor spends months feverishly fashioning a creature out of old body parts. One climactic night, in the secrecy of his apartment, he brings his creation to life. When he looks at the monstrosity that he has created, however, the sight horrifies him. After a fitful night of sleep, interrupted by the specter of the monster looming over him, he runs into the streets, eventually wandering in remorse. Victor runs into Henry, who has come to study at the university, and he takes his friend back to his apartment. Though the monster is gone, Victor falls into a feverish illness.
Sickened by his horrific deed, Victor prepares to return to Geneva, to his family, and to health. Just before departing Ingolstadt, however, he receives a letter from his father informing him that his youngest brother, William, has been murdered. Grief-stricken, Victor hurries home. While passing through the woods where William was strangled, he catches sight of the monster and becomes convinced that the monster is his brother’s murderer. Arriving in Geneva, Victor finds that Justine Moritz, a kind, gentle girl who had been adopted by the Frankenstein household, has been accused. She is tried, condemned, and executed, despite her assertions of innocence. Victor grows despondent, guilty with the knowledge that the monster he has created bears responsibility for the death of two innocent loved ones.
Hoping to ease his grief, Victor takes a vacation to the mountains. While he is alone one day, crossing an enormous glacier, the monster approaches him. The monster admits to the murder of William but begs for understanding. Lonely, shunned, and forlorn, he says that he struck out at William in a desperate attempt to injure Victor, his cruel creator. The monster begs Victor to create a mate for him, a monster equally grotesque to serve as his sole companion.
Victor refuses at first, horrified by the prospect of creating a second monster. The monster is eloquent and persuasive, however, and he eventually convinces Victor. After returning to Geneva, Victor heads for England, accompanied by Henry, to gather information for the creation of a female monster. Leaving Henry in Scotland, he secludes himself on a desolate island in the Orkneys and works reluctantly at repeating his first success. One night, struck by doubts about the morality of his actions, Victor glances out the window to see the monster glaring in at him with a frightening grin. Horrified by the possible consequences of his work, Victor destroys his new creation. The monster, enraged, vows revenge, swearing that he will be with Victor on Victor’s wedding night.
Later that night, Victor takes a boat out onto a lake and dumps the remains of the second creature in the water. The wind picks up and prevents him from returning to the island. In the morning, he finds himself ashore near an unknown town. Upon landing, he is arrested and informed that he will be tried for a murder discovered the previous night. Victor denies any knowledge of the murder, but when shown the body, he is shocked to behold his friend Henry Clerval, with the mark of the monster’s fingers on his neck. Victor falls ill, raving and feverish, and is kept in prison until his recovery, after which he is acquitted of the crime. Shortly after returning to Geneva with his father, Victor marries Elizabeth. He fears the monster’s warning and suspects that he will be murdered on his wedding night. To be cautious, he sends Elizabeth away to wait for him. While he awaits the monster, he hears Elizabeth scream and realizes that the monster had been hinting at killing his new bride, not himself. Victor returns home to his father, who dies of grief a short time later. Victor vows to devote the rest of his life to finding the monster and exacting his revenge, and he soon departs to begin his quest. Victor tracks the monster ever northward into the ice. In a dogsled chase, Victor almost catches up with the monster, but the sea beneath them swells and the ice breaks, leaving an unbridgeable gap between them. At this point, Walton encounters Victor, and the narrative catches up to the time of Walton’s fourth letter to his sister.
Walton tells the remainder of the story in another series of letters to his sister. Victor, already ill when the two men meet, worsens and dies shortly thereafter. When Walton returns, several days later, to the room in which the body lies, he is startled to see the monster weeping over Victor. The monster tells Walton of his immense solitude, suffering, hatred, and remorse. He asserts that now that his creator has died, he too can end his suffering. The monster then departs for the northernmost ice to die.
( cfr.  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/summary.html  )

]]> 2017-05-08 12:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170485379 the creation of the monster ritamurolo1997 https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170487869 In this video it is evident a similarity between the two main characters, who are dr.Frankenstein and his monster. First of all, the monster is a reincarnation of the scientist and we can see this because of the anxiety of the scientist during the awakening of the monster. He transfers part of his soul in his creature. This is probably because he feels alone for the fact that he chooses to be alone in his laboratory and this could have caused the creation and all the consequences wich derive from this disaster.]]> 2017-05-08 12:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ritamurolo1997/thegothicnovel/wish/170487869