Contesto generale La novella di Cisti il fornaio è la seconda della sesta giornata del Decameron di Boccaccio. In questa giornata, tutte le novelle hanno un tema comune: il modo elegante e intelligente (con arte e garbo) con cui i personaggi riescono a rispondere a situazioni difficili, spesso grazie all’arguzia, alla prontezza di spirito o all’uso sapiente delle parole (i cosiddetti “motti”). La narratrice è Pampinea, una delle sette giovani protagoniste del Decameron, che introduce la novella con una riflessione: a volte la natura e la fortuna premiano persone di umili origini, dotandole di un'anima nobile e virtuosa, proprio come accade a Cisti. Trama in breve Cisti è un fornaio fiorentino, quindi un uomo del popolo, ma di grande eleganza, educazione e intelligenza. Egli possiede un ottimo vino bianco, che desidera offrire a Geri Spina, un nobile fiorentino che ogni giorno passa davanti alla sua bottega insieme agli ambasciatori di papa Bonifacio VIII. Cisti però sa che, ...
Its lasting appeal comes mainly from two factors: the Romantics’ interest in the effects of science on man and the horrific and macabre elements of Gothic tales like the emotional language and the atmosphere of suspense and danger.
Frankenstein is considered the foreshadowing of science fiction because, unlike the other Gothic novels, the author Mary Shelley substitutes science for the supernatural.
Moreover, Frankenstein may be considered as a Faustian dream because the main character, Dr. Frankenstein, is a scientifically updated version of Faust : he wants to overcome man’s limitations and acquire a God-like power over physical matter.
Then, the novel is a Romantic curse because it treats the Romantics’ interest in the effects of science on man and the Frankenstein’s monster is a symbol of the Romantic concern for the isolation of the individual by society.
The story is narrated in the first person by three different omniscient narrators:
- the first part is in the epistolary form and it is narrated by an English explorer, Robert Walton, who, writing to his sister in England, organizes an exploration to the Arctic and, here, he saves the Swiss scientist Dr Frankenstein;
- then, there is Frankenstein’s autobiographical account: Dr. Frankenstein, saved by Robert, narrates the story of his life and experiments;
- within Frankenstein’s narration a report by the monster himself is inserted, which explains the reasons for his “monstruos” and cruel behaviour;
- the story is concluded by Walton again in epistolary form.
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