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The Issue of Identity in Chuck Palahniuk's Early Works
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Barbara Bece In his first three novels, Chuck Palahniuk explores the issues of identity and individualism in regard to various influencing factors. He finds inspiration for his characters and the revelations they come to in philosophical works of the nineteenth and twentieth century. In Fight Club he deals with how the historical context and class affiliation affect the formation of one’s identity. For this purpose, the works of Karl Marx and Louis Althusser are consulted, particularly their take on...
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The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in Contemporary African American Fiction
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Andrea Laban This master’s thesis provides an analysis of Alice Walker’s novels The Color Purple (1982) and Meridian (1976) in relation to the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy. It discusses the theme of African American female experience of inequality and discrimination in terms of both gender and race. The paper argues that even though their time frames differ, as The Color Purple is set at the beginning of the twentieth century and Meridian reflects the years during and following the Civil...
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The Motif of Madness in Selected Short Stories by E. A. Poe
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Marko Ketović The motif of madness, the epitome of the Gothic genre and of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, serves as the impetus for the protagonists of the short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Pit and the Pendulum”, which the paper analyzes and interprets. The introductory part explicates the social context of the Victorian era and defines madness in the frame of Gothic fiction, serving as a theoretical background for the analysis. An overview is given over...
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The Motifs of Plants and Flowers in William Blake's Poetry
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Katarina Mikulić William Blake was a poet, artist, and engraver whose poetic, literary, and artistic work are deeply valued today and he is considered to be among the first and one of the greatest of the English Romantics. This versatile genius used motifs and imagery of flowers and plants in his poems to convey deep meanings in linguistically simple poetic works. The elements of nature have always inspired him, so it is no surprise that a simple rose, sunflower, or lily is endowed with unrivalled...
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The Myth of Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's Poems
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Josipa Gržić Sylvia Plath’s impactful literary works challenge cultural standards and shed light on women’s struggles in the twentieth century. This paper examines the cultural context in which they were written by focusing on the changing understanding of motherhood presented in Plath’s poetry. The analysis is done through the lens of social constructionism and the idea that a seemingly biological notion, such as motherhood, becomes a social myth. This paper explores Plath’s portrayal of...
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The Myth of Prometheus in Shelley and Goethe/Mit o Prometeju u djelima Shelleya i Goethea
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Benjamin Lovrić The myth of Prometheus is one of the most known myths in Greek mythology. It speaks about a titan Prometheus, who tricked Zeus and stole fire from the Mount Olympus. He gave this fire to the humans and thus saved humanity from Zeus’ vengeance. For this he was punished and was chained to Caucasus, where an eagle would come each day and consume his liver. The first chapter of this paper focuses on the myth of Prometheus itself, describing it in detail and explicating its significance. The...
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The Mythic World in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Novels
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Emma Karika Mythological places, characters, and events have been the topic of many tales, epics, poems, plays, and other literary works. Mythology continues to serve as an inspiration to many authors across all literary periods, even to modern young adult fantasy writers such as Rick Riordan who in his Percy Jackson series skillfully and creatively merges the world of Greek mythology with the modern world we live in. He takes mythological elements and gives them a new, modern form, which enables their...
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The Nature of Hero(es) in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"
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Antonija Magić The Hobbit is a children’s fantasy novel written by a widely respected English linguist and writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien, famous for his vigorous defence of fantastic literature, wrote a poignant chronicle of a hobbit Bilbo Baggins set in Middle-earth in the years 2941 to 2942 of the Third Age. Although primarily a fairy tale, the book is both complex and sophisticated when all of its intricacies are taken into consideration. The novel depicts rises and falls of Bilbo Baggins...
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The Origins of Evil in Beowulf and Milton's Paradise Lost
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Ena Međimurec As one of the oldest phenomena in the universe, the concept of evil has always been the subject of interest of many nations around the world. Some of them have used it throughout history as a source of inspiration in order to create numerous literary works. Precisely this the Beowulf poet and John Milton have done by creating Beowulf and Paradise Lost, the epic poems written in completely different periods of time, but still sharing the same theme: the battle of good and evil. Interestingly...
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The Pedagogy of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter novels
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Andrea Đumlija Being a worldwide cultural phenomenon, the Harry Potter novels have been analyzed through various critical perspectives. As the main setting, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry offers a gateway to an analysis of the educational context represented in the novels. Considering education as being one of the important underlying themes, this paper focuses primarily on the depictions of learning and teaching since the Harry Potter series contains various pedagogical examples of both good...
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