At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Monday, 25 January 2016
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
STUDYING A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published on 19 December 1843, met with instant success and critical acclaim. It tells
the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his
transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of
his former business partner Jacob Marley and
the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
After celebrating the
joy and charity of Christmas, A Christmas Carol is above all a
condemnation of 19th-century Victorian England's division between the rich and the poor. London was a great world power, rich from industry and colonial
influence, yet poverty devastated its streets and factories. Continue reading here.
Sunday, 17 January 2016
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNE BRONTË!
Born on January 17, 1820, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England,
Anne Brontë wrote a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and
Emily. She worked as a governess too. Her 1847 novel, Agnes Grey, was
inspired by her experiences. Her subsequent novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the story of a woman leaving her abusive husband, was
published the following year. Anne died of tuberculosis on May 28, 1849, in
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.
Continue reading here.
Here you can read an interesting article about her books.
“I am satisfied that if
a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All
novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a
loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be
really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing
anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Saturday, 16 January 2016
ELINOR AND MARIANNE TAKE BARTON
"Elinor and
Marianne Take Barton" is an updated online adaption of "Sense and
Sensibility" by Jane Austen, produced, filmed and created by students at
the University of Warwick (England). Enjoy!
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
LORD BYRON - 5^C LINGUISTICO
George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (1728-1844)
with his aristocratic behaviour, personal charm and unquestionable beauty stands
out as a rock star poet and the prince of passionate people’s perceptions during the so-called Regency era in England (1792 –
1830).
He is an immense poet, combining the best of
Augustan wit and intellect with the best of sensuously and politically charged
Romanticism.
Lord Byron was described in his own time as ‘a child of passion and the fool of fame‘.
Lord Byron was described in his own time as ‘a child of passion and the fool of fame‘.
