The most famous tragedy written by Shakespeare is Romeo and Juliet. It is a tragedy by William Shakespeare composed between 1594 and 1596, and represented the most famous and one of the most popular love stories. The story of the two protagonists have changed over time as a symbolic value, becoming the archetype of perfect but opposed by the society.

Paradise Lost tells the biblical story of Adam and Eve, with God and Satan (Lucifer), who is thrown out of Heaven and later tries to corrupt humankind. Satan, the most beautiful of the angels, is hurled into Hell with his stunned followers as a consequence of his defeat in the war in Heaven.

'Farewell happy Fields where Joy for ever dwells. Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n'.

Robinson Crusoe consist of three separate sections. The first section tells how, Robinson (thath belong to the middle class) leaves his family when he is nineteen and goes to sea to make his fortune. One day, he is shipwrecked on a remote island where he spends twenty-eight years. The second section is actually in the form of a diary-like account of Robinson's experiences on the island. It tells how he is able to partly recreated the world he has left behind him, how he eventually saves a young savage from cannibals and makes him his servant with the name of Man Friday, and how he is finally rescued by an English ship. In the third section Robinson returns to England, where he learns that his plantation in Brazil has made him rich.

1. In book 1 Gulliver sails from Bristol,and he is cast upon the shore of 'Lilliput', whose inhabitants, the 'Lilliputian', are only six inches tall!!

2. In book 2 Gulliver sails for India, but finds himself in 'Brobdingnag', a country in Alaska. Here the natives are giants twelve times as tall as Gulliver. His size causes him many misadventures!

3. In book 3 Gulliver's ship is attacked by pirates who set him adrift on a small boat. He finds himself on the flying island of 'Laputa', whose inhabitants are astronomers, philosophers and scientist who carry out absurd experiments.

4. In book 4 Gulliver's last voyage leads him to the isalnd inhabited by the 'Houyhnhnms', rational horses, a vile species of animal resembling human beings. When the horses banish him, he comes back to England. Once back in civilisation, he joins his wife and children but cannot stand their human smell. he therefore goes to live in stable, among the animals that remind him of the nobility of the Houyhnhnms.

Beowulf is praised for his courage, endurance and generosity, which determine his nobility and estabilish the courtly ideal of the warrior. Superhuman powers are attributed to him: he kills monsters which live underwater and underground, which can fly and which breathe fire.