Master Visconti 's Ntoni By Giovanni Verga

Sixteen-year-old Lina Emerson, the main character, had recently moved to Italy to live with her unmentioned father. This new experience consists of gelato, the beautiful Italy scenery, and a significant life lesson. It was her mother’s dying wish for her to move to Tuscany, Italy to finally get to know her father. Reluctantly, she agreed to go for a short period of time over the

In the short story “The Devil Comes To Orekhovo”, Benioff is making a point that to survive in the war you have to be strong minded. Benioff uses three different Russian soldiers to present his argument. Leksi who is eighteen and has recently joined the war. Then we have Nikolai and Surkhov who are both older and have experience a war, once before. Leksi showed multiple times that he wasn’t ready for what the war had to offer, compared to Nikolai and Surkhov. The way Benioff makes this point is that in the story Leksi never paid attention his mind was always somewhere else, he did things without thinking twice and would feel sorry for the enemy. Which always fell onto Nikolai and Surkhov to show him that he needs to get stronger, so they can

There are many meanings inside stories; “Gregory” by Panos Ioannides is a heart-wrenching short story that follows the protagonist through the execution of his friend. E.M. Forster explains a want to keep friendships strong even at the expense of one’s relation to one’s country. The main character in “Gregory”' has multiple thoughts showing a tie to what Foster explained, as well as the internal fight that happens when one has two forces pulling at one. The Narrator wants to follow his gut and skirt tragedy, but in the end he wants to save himself from his superiors.

Art is a particular form of social consciousness and of human activities, an important way for people to perceive, discover and improve life: according to the laws of beauty. It is the creation of tangible or intangible products containing great values of thought-aesthetics, cultural character, and emotions. In this sense, there are numerous types of art. Painting is one of the oldest forms of art on earth. From prehistoric times, artists not only used it to communicate, but they also used painting to entertain the viewers. Painting can be transformed, eliminating the tedium, fatigue, and stress in daily tasks to bring the joy. Fun in life or silence for the soul. In other words, painting is a language that communicates an artist 's ideas

Parents often say, “Listen to your elders.” This cliché can make some people apathetic, but when looking back, most appreciate the wisdom of their elders. The knowledge imparted to children is crucial for their ability to understand and improve the world. In XIV by Derek Walcott, the speaker uses imagery, metaphor, and other literary devices to convey the storyteller’s significance to his life.

Domenico di Michelino (1417-1491), an Italian painter and medieval poet was known best for his epic poem, The Divine Comedy, which includes sections representing the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: Purgatory (Purgatorio), Hell (Inferno), and Paradise (Paradiso). This poem was a great work of medieval literature and was considered the greatest work of literature composed in Italian. The Divine Comedy was a Christian vision of mankind’s eternal fate. When The Divine Comedy was written, Dante made a cathedral painting that represents his poem called Dante and His Poem. In the painting, the Dante shows the 3 tiers related to the Christian afterlife. Dante was standing in a red robed colossus, revealing his poem to the city of Florence. The painting was full of great meaning, inspiring so many artists from Rodin to Robert Rauschenberg.

Italian neorealism (1945-1953), through directors like Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, made its trademark on cinematic history not only in Italy, but also throughout the world. It was films such as Rome Open City (Roma città aperta, 1945), The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette, 1948), and Umberto D., (1952) whose style of depicting the harsh economic and social realities of the poor and working class of Italy took off as a new cinematic style after World War II. Neorealism is a response to desperate economic situations and often illustrates suffering, poverty, injustice, and/or discrimination. Many argue that neorealism is a way of seeing reality without prejudice due to the documentary-like technique of the film and its ability

My favorite play is Almost, Maine by John Cariani. I have seen two student productions and I doubt I could ever tire of it. I have never considered myself an especially romantic person in my own life, but I love seeing portrayals of romance in theatre. Love fosters endless possibilities for diverse plotlines and emotions that are somehow simultaneously unique to each situation and universal. I particularly like Almost, Maine because it explores so many different routes that love can take. Most of the scenes are cute and heart-warming, but a few of them deal with serious relationship issues and heartbreak, from simple regret to the distinct pain of gradually fading away from someone who was once your other half. Love is a vulnerability and the

Home from the Hill was the epitome of struggling and suffering of Minnelli as an auteur. The film was released in the 1960 when the studio system had struggled to remain in American cinema. The market was no longer satisfied with the studio setting, and instead it started embracing the natural setting--the true reality. The arrival of the new trend changed and challenged the technique and style of Minnelli. In the studio, Minnelli could control and reshape the reality for his own fantasy. But out of the studio, his fantasy had to respect and compromise to the reality. All of a sudden, this wildest dreamer and the greatest set designer had to deal with such the dilemma of following his own will or obeying the new trend.

While Riall states that culture is what truly marked this budding Italian identity, she also goes on to write that culturally, the peninsula was becoming more “Italianised” even before the unification of Italy. Likewise, Riall demonstrates how the arts, particularly theatre, in more ways than one, contributed to a “growing patriotic spirit”. Themes recurrent in operatic works of the time such as oppression and struggle, coupled with the production of theatres alike in construction gave way to a sense of unity, a shared culture and community. Art and literature produced and stressed commonality in the formation of an Italian identity.

For the third summary paper, the film being summarized is Butterfly directed by José Luis Cuerda. The film takes place in Galicia (north-western Spain) in the year 1936 as the Spanish civil war is looming over the country. The film follows a boy named Moncho and his teacher Don Gregorio as they develop a close relationship with one another. The film introduces Moncho wide awake in bed while everyone else is asleep. He is excited to go to school for the first time tomorrow and is too tired to sleep because of it. Moncho is introduced as a shy, innocent boy in the beginning of the film. The teacher Don Gregorio is introduced as an innocent, kind teacher who takes Moncho under his wing to teach him about life. The major theme of the film is loss

Imitating the expressive shading and strong example used by Paul Gauguin, his point was to investigate a type of beautifying painting. Called the Nabis (Hebrew for "prophets"), his impression on French craftsmanship was quick yet permanent. The Nabis seperated around 1900, and Bonnard would spend the next forty-seven years looking for the right expression as a painter. Bonnard clearly admitted that he could only paint the familiar such as taking tea, feeding a cat, leaning to the dinner table. He did drawings of his subjects, recording notes about how the moment felt, or the climate, or shading connections, and in some cases, up until 1920, he took photos, catching a painting or drawing of a moment . In any case, he painted entirely from memory,

With this finale the audience does not leave the play feeling completely dismal as a result of Don Giovanni’s punishment. In addition, the message behind the opera is still clear as it would have been without the sextet. But the seriousness of the message is not conveyed as well at could be. The opera is supposed to have moments of comedy and moments of seriousness, especially regarding the anticipated fate of Don Giovanni. However, because of the sextet the significance of the intended message could lose its meaning.

​Released in 1988 by director Giuseppe Tomatore, “Cinema Paradiso” follows the life of a young boy in Italy who dreams of being a filmmaker. The road the boy, who eventually becomes a famous Italian film director named Salvatore Di Vita, takes to reach his goal is difficult and includes many sacrifices and trade-offs. Today, the film is widely regarded as one of the most popular foreign films ever to be released in the United States. Given that foreign films are fairly common in America, it is fair to consider why “Cinema Paradiso” received such critical acclaim, as well as relative mainstream popularity. “Cinema Paradiso” received critical and popular praise because the film includes several timeless themes

depiction of the daily lives of Italians in Nazi occupied Rome, and Visconti’s Rocco e