Oscar Wilde and Gabriele D’Annunzio were two famous poets and writers who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century, respectively in England and Italy.

Both of them represented the leading exponents of the artistic and literary movement of Aestheticism, a product of late Romanticism with a tendency to Decadentism.

The fundamental principle of Aestheticism was “Art for Art’s sake: they believed that art shouldn’t have any didactic or moral aim.

Aesthetic artists hated the hypocrisy and the increasing uniformity of the industrial society because they couldn’t stand the vulgarity of mass production. For this reason they kept away from the masses and lived a life of refined sensations professing the cult of beauty and transforming their life into a work of art, surpassing moral laws in the search for pleasures and vices, often through the use of drugs and alcohol. They were also dandy, which means that they led and an intense and spectacular social life and adopted extravagant poses.

Wilde and D’Annunzio were similar because they tried to find the pleasures of beauty and they thought that the beauty was the most important thing in a life. In addition, both of them were eccentric, non-conformist and loved to give scandal.

The main characters of their most famous novel, that are Andrea Sperelli in “Il Piacere” by D’annunzio and Dorian Gray in “The portrait of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wide are similar too: both of them are dandy and devote their lives to the pursuit of pleasures of any kind, intellectual as well as material.

However, they present differences due to literary influences and different belonging societies: Sperelli was Italian, while Dorian Gray was English.

Sperelli was more devoted to the pleasure derived from love affairs, without mystical complications, with a provincial Decadentism, despite European experience and fame. This reflected the Italian society at that time, that was ruled by the Fascism. Italy was a provincial nation, but it wanted to emerge as a political, economic and cultural power.

Dorian Gray spent 20 years in a compromising and sinister existence, experiencing exaggerated and even “diabolic” pleasures as England was influenced by the Utilitarian and moralistic Victorian empire.

 

 

 

 

 

HELLO BOYS, GIRLS  AND TEACHER IN THIS POST I WILL TALK ABOUT A SOCIAL MEDIA AND PROBLEMS THAT CAN CAUSE. I  DON’T HAVE SOCIAL BECAUSE I THINK THEY ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS.  I THINK WE USE TOO SMARTPHONE, AND THIS SITUATION WILL GET WORSE FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.

 ISOLATION IS A BIG PROBLEM OF THE SOCIAL. FOR EXAMPLE: WHEN I AM WITH MY FRIENDS I FELL PUT OUTSIDE BECAUSE I CANNOT COMMENT A PHOTO ON INSTAGRAM.

BUT SOCIAL MEDIA HIDE MORE SERIOUS PROBLEMS SUCH AS SEXTING: WHEN THE GIRL OR BOYS SEND THEIR INTIMATE PHOTOS TO ACCOUNT THAT THEY DON’ T KNOW AND  THIS IS THE MATTER THAT I HATE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE YOU DON’ T KNOW WHO IS? YOU CAN’ T KNOW IF IT’ S A PEDOPHILE WHO HIDE BEHIND A PHOTO OF A FOURTEEN YEARS OLD.

 

 

I NOTICED THAT WHEN THE PERSON RECEIVE “LIKE”, HE FEELS VERY WELL BECAUSE HE WANTS TO ACCEPT FROM OTHERS, BUT YOU MUST LIKE YOURSELF.

ONE OF DANGER OF SOCIAL MEDIA ARE CHALLENGES  IN PARTICULAR ONE: “BLUE WHALE”, TO DO THIS CHALLENGE YOU MUST CONTACT FROM UNKNOWN NUMBER AND YOU MUST DECIDE IF YOU WOULD PLAY OR NO. IF YOU DECIDE TO PLAY, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGHT VARIOUS LEVELS FOR EXAMPLE, THEY TELL THAT YOU MUST WATCH AT 3 a.m. OR SELF-HARM UNTIL YOU WIN THE GAME YOU HAVE TO THROW AWAY A PALACE OR YOU HAVE TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

 THE BOYS PUBLISH THEIR SUICIDE  TO GET LIKE ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA FROM OTHER. ALL THESE DANGERS CAUSE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS TO A PERSON AND FOR THIS REASON I SAY:   “NO SOCIAL MEDIA.”

THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY OSCAR WILDE. HE WAS BORN IN DUBLIN, IRELAND.

IN 1854 HE TRAVELLED A LOT OF IN EUROPE. BUT THE IMPORTANT YEAR OF HIS LIFE THERE WERE WHEN HE WENT IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1882 WERE HE MARRIED AND WRITE SOME BOOKS LIKE THIS.

OSCAR WILDE LIVED IN THE VICTORIAN AGE. IN 1887 THE QUEEN VICTORIA BECAME RHE EMPRESS OF INDIA AND ENLARGE THE TERRITORY.

BETWEEN 1852 AND 1856 ENGLAND PARTICIPATED IN THE CRIMEA WAR, AND BETWEEN 1889 AND 1902 PARTICIPATED IN THE BOER WAR.  THE VICTORIA QUEEN DIED IN 1902.

THIS BOOK TALK ABOUT A GHOST THAT KILLED ALL PEOPLE WHO WILL GO TO CANTERVILLE CHASE. MR HIRAM B. OTIS WITH HIS FAMILY BOUGHT CANTERVILLE CHASE BY LORD CANTERVILLE AND GO THERE.

IN THIS “HOME” THEY LIVED MANY ADVENTURES.  THE STAIN ON THE PAVEMENT, NO ONE HAS  BEEN ABLE TO REMOVE IT EVEN PINKERTON’ S CHAMPION CLEANER. ON THE NIGHT MR OTIS HEAR A NOISE AND OPEN THE DOOR OF HIS ROOM AND IN FRONT  OF HIM THERE WAS A TERRIBLE OLD MAN.

HIS EYES WAS RED LIKE FIRE. HIS LONG GREY HAIR WAS THICK AND DIRTY. HE WAS WEARING OLD FASHIONED CLOTHES. HEAVY CHAINS WERE HANGING FROM HIS WRISTS AND ANKLES, AND MR OTIS TAKEN THE GHOST GIVING A SOLVENT FOR THE CHAINS, WHILE THE TWINS TAKEN OUT THE GHOST , THAT  RETURNED IN HIS SECRET ROOM.

BUT GHOST IS MORE DETERMINATE AND DON’ T GIVE UP  THEN THE GHOST APPEAR A SECOND TIME AND THE FAMILY HAVE  ALREADY PREPARED  FOR HE.

THE TWINS MAKE HIM A JOKE WHERE THEY SAY TO IGNORE THE GHOST OF THE CANTERVILLE CHASE, AT THIS POINT THE GHOST RETURNED IN HIS SECRET ROOM, DISAPPOINTED.

ONE DAY WHEN TWO YOUNG PEOPLE WENT RIDING TOGETHER VIRGINIA HAD FORGOTTEN HER JACKET AND RETURNED IN HER ROOM BUT MET THE GHOST AND THEY STARTED TO TALK OF WHAT THAT WAS HAPPENING AND THEY BECAME FRIEND. VIRGINIA AND THE GHOST WENT TO THE GARDEN OF DEATH , WHERE ALL  THE NATURE WERE DEAD.

VIRGINIA’S FAMILY WAS WORRIED AND THEY SERCHED ALL OVER THE HOUSE.

VIRGINIA FOLLOWED THE GHOST INTO THE DARK ROOM AND WHEN VIRGINIA RETURNED IN THE CANTERVILLE CHASE SHE SAID: THE GHOST IS DEAD, AND WITH HER FAMILY ORGANIZED THE FUNERAL FOR HE.

 

On March 14th we went on a trip to the ESA.

ESA: European Space Agency born in 1975 that coordinates space projects in 22 european countries.

At ESA we did a lot of activities such as a text, built a spaceship with colored and numbered pieces of wood, and we made a computer game where we had to land a spaceship on the moon through their explanations.

Then we saw a model that represented the environmental problems in our world.

For me it was a beautiful and interesting experience, because I could see their work.

This trip made me dream of being an astronaut and I could understand the emotions you feel when you see the earth from another planet.