Analizzare un testo narrativo non è mai un’operazione immediata. A differenza della poesia, dove la struttura e le figure retoriche spesso “saltano agli occhi”, la prosa si muove in modo più fluido e meno visibile: significati, temi e scelte stilistiche sono intrecciati alla storia e ai personaggi, e richiedono attenzione, metodo e allenamento per essere messi a fuoco. Proprio per questo motivo, è importante avvalersi di una guida per orientarsi nella complessità del testo, a scomporlo nei suoi elementi essenziali e a leggerlo in modo più consapevole e profondo. In questo post presento una scheda per l'analisi di un testo narrativo, da vedere non come una gabbia rigida ma come un metodo per osservare il testo con ordine, coglierne i meccanismi narrativi e trasformare la lettura in uno strumento di comprensione critica. CONTESTUALIZZAZIONE Autore: ___________________________________________________ Titolo dell'opera: ____________________________________________ ...
John Milton was born into a Protestant family in London.
He went to St. Paul's School then to Cambridge where he took his Master of Arts degree in 1632.
He was in Italy in 1639 before the Civil war broke out.
He returned to England to support the Puritan cause and in 1649 became Latin secretary to the Cromwell's Council of State.
With the fall of the Commonwealth, Milton retired from public life and wrote the greatest epic poem of the Renaissance: Paradise lost.
This poem is based on the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
In this poem there is a fusion of classical themes and Christian doctrine, according to the Humanism.
Paradise lost was written "to justify the ways of God to men", in order to make clear in their justness.
Milton admires man's free will, but he criticizes one of the biggest man's sins : the pride.
In fact, it's this sin that causes Satan's fall.
The author analyses, through soliloquies, the behaviour of several characters.
Milton gives Satan the rhetorical voice of a leader who has lost everything, except his self-esteem.
For this reason, according to Romantics, he is considered a dark solitary hero.
Some of Milton's prose writings had a direct relation to his life such as The doctrine and discipline of divorce.
Other works treat political events such as the introduction of book censorship in England in Areopagitica.
He died in 1674.

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