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Letteratura Inglese 1
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- The Dead (James Joyce):
- Explores themes of past and tradition through the Morkans' annual Christmas party, highlighting how older generations influence the present and the remembrance of the dead.
- Music and art serve as a pervasive backdrop, evoking memories and social cohesion, yet also exposing hypocrisy and superficiality within the social setting.
- The narrative employs a choral perspective, revealing character relationships through varied viewpoints.
- Snow symbolizes concealment, blurring the lines between the living and the dead, and offering Gabriel a means of escape and reflection.
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson):
- Focuses on the fundamental duality of human nature, personified by Jekyll's struggle between his angelic and devilish impulses, and Hyde's pure evil.
- Emphasizes the critical importance of reputation and social appearances in Victorian society, where facades often mask sordid realities and hidden vices.
- Silence and fragmentation in descriptions underscore the mystery and the internal conflict between good and evil.
- Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift):
- Utilizes estrangement to present familiar elements in an unusual light, filtering vision through different cultural perspectives (e.g., Lilliputians).
- Examines vision both physically and metaphorically, linking it to the pursuit of truth and the exposure of societal and personal corruption.
- Critiques the pervasive corruption within European society, including politics, law, and education, leading Gulliver to eventually realize his own inherent flaws and become disillusioned.
- Swift's pessimism about human nature, its irrationality, and the pursuit of earthly pleasures is a core element, as Gulliver's journey moves from defending to condemning society.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge):
- Stresses the importance of the individual and the artist's personal voice in romantic art.
- Explores human nature's relationship with the sublime, where intense natural phenomena evoke fear, terror, and awe, challenging rational thought.
- Nature plays a crucial role in the development of the individual soul, offering lessons in joy, love, freedom, and piety.
- The Albatross serves as a powerful symbol of innocence, its death representing sin and leading to the Mariner's spiritual suffering and eventual epiphany.
- The poem can be interpreted as an allegory for the soul's journey from crime to redemption, or as a commentary on the Romantic poetic process and the loss of innocence due to the Industrial Revolution.
- Key characters like the Ancient Mariner, the Wedding Guest, Death, and Life-in-Death embody the narrative's moral and supernatural dimensions.