Lucio Apuleio (ca. 120-170)

Orlando furioso(trama)

by Francesca Malara

Il Naturalismo francese e il verismo italiano: poetiche e contenuti

by Manuel Dos Santos

ordini architettonici

by gabriella bonarrigo

Tacito 55 d.C

by CECCARINO FEDERICO

Intento serio ed edificante

Divertire

Name the character

Type in the name of the character whose change throughout the story you are going to analyze.

Example: Nick Carraway.

Le Metamorfosi (tardo II sec.)

Character's behavior

Think of the character's behavior at the beginning of the story and look for the way it changed throughout the story.

Lingua e stile

Stile elaborato, fiorito e con figure retoriche.

Initial behavior

What is the character's behavior at the beginning of the story? Type in a relevant quote for your statement.

Example: Nick seems to be an honest person, calling himself 'one of the few honest people that I have ever known'.

Lingua raffinata, artefatta ma anche semplice e naturale.

Somiglianze con Lucio o l'asino, opera greca di Luciano di Samòsata.

Opera conosciuta anche come L'asino d'oro

Duplice intento dell'autore:

Change in behavior

In what way did the character change the other behavior(s) you mentioned? Type in a relevant quote.

Example:
'You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? [...]
I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.'

Analogie sia con la fabula Milesia che con il romanzo

Change in behavior

How did the character change the first behavior you mentioned? Type in a quote to prove your statement.

Example: Nick assumes the whole responsibility for Gatsby's funeral arrangements, 'with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.'

Tre parti

XI libri

Initial behavior

How does the character act at the beginning of the story? Type in a relevant quote for your statement.

Example: Nick shows his immature side as he leaves to New York in order to avoid 'being rumored into marriage' with his girlfriend.

La vita

Character's feelings

Focus on the way the character's feelings are presented at the beginning and at the end of the story, while explaining why they have changed.

Sposa l'anziana Pudentilla, madre di Ponziano.

Si difende brillantemente e viene assolto.

The reason for the change of feelings

What caused the character to change the first belief you mentioned? Type in the reason for the change.

Example: disgust towards the lack of morality in the Buchanan family.

Dopo la morte di Ponziano, Apuleio viene accusato di magia.

The reason for the change of feelings

Why did the character change his feelings? Type in the answer.

Example: the East lost its appeal due to the shallowness, carelessness and corruption.

Opere

Le Metamorfosi

I Florida

Change of feelings

In what way did the character change the feeling you mentioned?

Type in a quote to support your statement.

Example: 'They are a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.' - Nick criticizing the Buchanans.

Il De Magia

Change of feelings

How did the character change the belief you mentioned?

Type in a relevant quote for his change.

Example: 'Winter night and the real snow, our snow(...)We drew in deep breaths of it . . . unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour before we melted indistinguishably into it again. That's my middle-west.' - Nick on the purity and integrity of Midwest.