Gabriele D'Annunzio
Karl Marx
Virginia Woolf
influences

REBEL

ENGLISH

Mrs. Dalloway

Plot

-The novel covers one day of Mrs. Dalloway
-She is a nobil-woman
-meanwhile Seeptimus is waiting an appointment
-he suffers from shell shock
-he commits a sucide

Septimus Warren Smith

-WWI veteran,
-working class,
-he rebels againt his life, so he commits suicide

SCIENCE

Global warming

-climate change
-rising global surface temperatures
-increasing atmospheric energy and rates of evaporations-->are cuasing : -intense storms
-weather extremes
-expansion of deserts

PHILOSOPHY

The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto is a political document by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political documents.

-first part of the Manifesto---> describe the battle between the two main social classes
-main social classes: majority of oppressed and oppressive minority
-this struggle---> end in a revolution
-oppressed obtain the power
-Communism will win

ITALIAN

Le vergini delle rocce

This novel is written by Gabriele D'Annunzio. The first edition was published in 1895.

Plot

-Claudio Cantelmo is decendent of a Roman noble family
-he would have a successor
-he feels attraction to three girls
-finishes before Cantelmo chooses

In an extract of the novel, Claudio Cantelmo incites authors to rebel againt the civility, because after the Decadentism authors lost their importance in the civility

HISTORY

1848

historically famous for the wave of revolution in Europe. The revolutions had the aim of removing the old monarchical structures and creating indipendent nation-states.

ART

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement.

CUBISM

-early 20th century
-art movement
-revolutionized European painting and sculpture
-created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque