Short essay about "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" hasn't a common novel-plot: the plot is dream-like. The novel starts when Alice, a nine-years old girl, fall asleep under a tree. Then she dreams of following a white rabbit into its burrow. There she finds out another world ("Wonderland") rules by irrational principles. In Wonderland physica and logic laws are mutable and chaotic. There Alice meets many bizarre characters, such as a caterpillar, the Dutchess, the mad-Hatter... these characters usually ask Alice about reasons behind logical actions (for the readers) despite the fact of their illogical behaviours. The novel has different levels of reading: it can be read as an easy book for chidren, but it has also reflections about language and expressions. Idioms, proverbs and common english expressions are subverted, showing their senselessness ans showing as these expressions changes the way in wich people see the world.

Help! A short essay! In the prologue of "The Picture Of Dorian Gray", Oscar Wilde inserts a playful discussion about art. Beauty is seen as an absolute value and as the only purpose of art. In Wilde's opinio,in art there isn't moral or immoral, but only beauty and ugliness. The split in Oscar Wilde between utilitarianism of bourgeois society and his research of beauty clearly emerges in the novel where, through a faustian pact with and absent devil, Dorian Gray transforms his life in a piece of art and beauty, whithout morality and values. In this way the novel move from a classic Wilde's comedy's style to a gothic novel's style. Dorian considers his fascination with evil a part of a larger project to spiritualize the senses. New Gray's lifestyle soon become totally immoral: he embodies the ideal of an art for its own sake in with the oppositions between good and evil, true and false are completelly dissolved.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Plot "The Picture Of Dorian Grey" is the only Wilde's novel. Basil Hallward is a young artist fascinated by the beauty of Dorian Grey, another young man, whose potrait he dicedes to paint. Dorian, watching his image in the picture, realizes his own beauty and that time will lead him to ugliness, when the potrait will stay forever young. Under the influence of the aesthete Henry Wotton, he expresses a wish that the reverse was true. He also says that he will kill himself when his youth will fade. Scared by Dorian's reaction, Basil tries to destroy the work, but Dorian stops him. The successive months, Dorian become a Wotton's friend and starts ti go to the theatre, where he meets a young and promising actress: Sybil Vane. She falls in love with him, but he rejects her saying that he loves here only on stage. At home Dorian observes that this cruel behaviour warped the potrait's expression. Shocked he returns to Sybil and discovers that she had just killed herself. Thereafter he starts to act corruptly, while he stays young and his potrait changes monstruosly. At the end he tries to redempt his sinful soul destroying the picture, but in this way he kills himself.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Plot "The Picture Of Dorian Grey" is the only Wilde's novel. Basil Hallward is a young artist fascinated by the beauty of Dorian Grey, another young man, whose potrait he dicedes to paint. Dorian, watching his image in the picture, realizes his own beauty and that time will lead him to ugliness, when the potrait will stay forever young. Under the influence of the aesthete Henry Wotton, he expresses a wish that the reverse was true. He also says that he will kill himself when his youth will fade. Scared by Dorian's reaction, Basil tries to destroy the work, but Dorian stops him. The successive months, Dorian become a Wotton's friend and starts ti go to the theatre, where he meets a young and promising actress: Sybil Vane. She falls in love with him, but he rejects her saying that he loves here only on stage. At home Dorian observes that this cruel behaviour warped the potrait's expression. Shocked he returns to Sybil and discovers that she had just killed herself. Thereafter he starts to act corruptly, while he stays young and his potrait changes monstruosly. At the end he tries to redempt his sinful soul destroying the picture, but in this way he kills himself.

What would you do if you knew you had only 70 more years to live? I know that probabily I won’t have more than 70 years to live (right now I am 18, so in 70 years I’ll be 88). So I’ll continue to live as I always did, trying not to waste every moment. Like the famous philosopher Seneca substained, the human life-time is not too short, but most of humanity misspend time, trying to achieve goals, struggling and fighting to achieve futilities, being disgruntled and dissatisfied in this efforts, forgetting what really matters: to be happy.

My doubts on the future Well, I didn't know what to say in this entry so I decided to report my doubts. I am a student in the last year of Italian high-school and really soon I'll have to choose the university. I am undecided between engeneering (mainly mathematical engeneering) and economy. I've always been brilliant in maths (as in every subject), but right now I am not fascinated by maths. Some weeks ago i discovered a course, called "Marketing, Management and Computer Science", in the "Bocconi University" (the most prestigious university in Italy for economy), it seems fitting perfectly on my interests, but there's a problem: it is in english. I am not sure to be able to study years only in english with good marks: I have a B2 level in english (with a score of only 164/190 on First Exam) and probably it will be really hard to study in another language.

Is love important in life? Maybe. According to many philosophers and scientists, love is the purpose of the life: Thomas Hobbes said we are “Conatus Sese Conservandi” (wich literally means that humans are fundamentally autoconservation, and love is autoconservation). But in my opinion everybody should avoid love if it means suffering. Sometimes love hurts, and sometimes society influences you. Maybe happiness is in solitude, maybe not. It depends on the person.

What is the purpose of grieving for a lost loved one? There isn’t a purpose of grieving for a death, as there isn’t a purpose behind many human behaviours. When you lose somebody, be it a friend, a parent, a relative, an husband, a wife…., you can’t think, your behaviour is irrational. So grieving is simply a way to follow the traditions (because you’re too confused and too instable to do rational things), and to show how much you’re suffering. Maybe grieving is also something you hold on, trying to ignore the inner feelings.

Stonehenge In this interview the archeologist Susan Greaney (who has worked in Stonehenge since 2009) describes this amazing and mysterious place. Despite the fact that those stones were placed thousand years ago, they are still breath-taking. Every year many and many people gather around Stonehenge to admire the winter solstice. According to archeologists, it was the aim of the building since his construction:every year, when the sun set down on 21th December, the sun rays produce marvelous games of light and shadow. The visitors are mainly druids wannabe or hippies, but there're still a lot of curious. It's still not clear the aim of the site: maybe it was an ancient cemetery, or maybe it was related to prehistoric forms of cult.