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Inglese - Ripetizione
Oliver Twist
tells about oliver, a poor boy of unknown origins, which was brought to a workhouse through unknow means. After an episode considered disrespectful by the master of the workhouse, oliver is sold to an undertaker who will treat him badly.
Tired of the undertaker's attitude, oliver decides to flee to London and falls in the hands of a gang of pickpockets.
The gang leader was Artful Dodger, and there also was Fagin, who trained Oliver to become a thief.
when brought to his first theft, Oliver just had to witness, but the victim noticed him and his bad condition and after learning more about him decided to bring him home with him.
During the night, though, Oliver will be kidnapped by the gang and forced to take part in a Burglary where he will get shot and wounded.
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oliver, encouraged by others in the workhouse, asks for some more food, but is deemed ungrateful by the master.
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James Joyce
was an Irish writer, he was born in Dublin in 1882, he studied at a Jesuit school and later attended University College where he studied Modern Languages and graduated in 1902.
He wasn't very interested in the political problems of Ireland at the time, but rather thought that the only way to increased Ireland's awareness was to offer a European, cosmopolitan point of view of life in Ireland.
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War Poets
This movement of poets was born during the first great conflict, as a way of describing war for what it really was in the trenches and in the horrible conditions that the soldiers were forced to survive in.
Some soldiers, in fact, started writing about the war to have all the information and the brutalities of it arrive to who wasn't fighting the war itself
as for the war poets we can find two main different personalities which have two very different views on war.
Rupert Brooke
These two personalities are fundamentally different and bring up some interesting ethical considerations on the morality of war.
was born in Rugby in 1887 into a wealthy family and studied at Rugby School. He then went to King's College in Cambridge.
He was handsome, a good student and also an athlete. He was pretty popular and met many important political and literary figures.
As soon as war broke out he enlisted in the Royal Navy, but saw very little combat as he died of septicaemia while travelling towards the Dardanelles in 1915.
the most famous of his works is a collection of five war poems.
He claimed that war was clean and cleansing and had a sentimental and romantic approach to war.
He considered dying in war an heroic deed and a reward, rather than a tragedy.
He's the embodiement of pride, patriottism and romanticism.
He's very similar to the figure of the Byronic Hero.
One of his most famous works was The Soldier, a poem in which Brooke describes death in war, imagining himself dying in a foreing field for his country, England.
England here is portrayed as a person, more specifically as a mother, and is described as the most beautiful country.
He offers positive images of england and describes how his death would become an heroic deed and wouldn't put an end to his love for England.
Wilfred Owen
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was born in 1893 from a middle class family. In 1915 he was working as an english teacher in France, but when he visited an hospital for the wounded from war, he decided to go back to England and enroll.
He will be sent on the Somme in 1916, and after being hit by a shell he spent several days sheltering near the corpse of one of his fellow.
He was later diagnosed with Shell Shock (modern PTSD) and was sent to a war hospital in Edinburgh.
He met Sigfried Sassoon there who read some of his work and encouraged him to continue writing.
He will die in 1918, just 7 days before the armstice was signed.
as opposed to Brooke, Owen doesn't describe war as honourable and cleansing, but rather wants to warn the future generations of the horrors of war.
He describes war, the crisis that derives from it and the pity of war.
One of his most important poems is "Dulce et decorum est"
a poem which exposes the horrors of war and busts the big lie that is "dying for your country is sweet and honorauble"
in this poem, in fact, owen describes with stunning realism the horrors of a chemical attack that he lived when in war.
He describes the death of one of his fellow soldiers who wasn't able to save himself from the gas as he stumbled and lost his gas mask.
The images described by owen are very crude and representative of the horrible things that happened during world war I