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The Character Development in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Antonia Maslak J. K. Rowling’s novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone follows the seminal story of three eleven-year-old children named Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ronald Weasley. Together, these three go from being complete strangers to the best of friends through all sorts of adventures they come across at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The adventures, both big and small, range from sneaking out of their dormitories past curfew, over rescuing Hermione from a loose troll in...
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The Child's Perspective in the Literature of the Marginalized
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Andrea Maksimović The aim of the thesis is to analyze the strategy of using a child’s perspective in literary works concerning marginalization and discrimination of certain groups in the society. The thesis discusses the authors' choice of a child narrator and the effect it had on readers. Therefore, special attention is paid to the interpretation of social phenomena such as marginalization, racism, gender discrimination, and the effect that they have on child’s everyday life and family relationships,...
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The Comparative Analysis of Murder and Crime-Solving Strategies in Agatha Christie's Works
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Vedran Domjanović In Agatha Christie's literary career, which spanned over more than fifty years, the tally of murdered people in her mystery works approached three hundred. Her job as a nurse during World War I left a lasting mark on her career because during that period she developed a special interest in chemistry, poisons and drugs, which later influenced her writing style, and using poison became her forte. Consequently, many of her literary characters fell victim to some kind of toxin – arsenic,...
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The Complexity of Human Nature in William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience"
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Dina Lulić The paper gives a general introduction to the Romantic period and biographical information on William Blake’s life. After that, it analyzes his poetry with regard to the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The poems analyzed are counterparts, “Holy Thursday” of Innocence and “Holy Thursday” of Experience, “The Chimney Sweeper” of Innocence and of Experience and “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”. The primary focus of the paper is on showing how complex human beings are,...
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The Concept of Beauty in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary
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Laura Franjić This paper deals with the concepts of beauty in Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary as the main character Bridget Jones obsesses over beauty and looks throughout most of the novel. Bridget, however, is not the only character who is concerned about her outer appearance. Many other characters, such as her mother, her friends, and even some love interests, show concern about her semblance, especially when it could make or break the status of Bridget’s love life. Throughout the novel,...
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The Concept of Fear and Coming of Age in Stephen King's Novel "It"
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Nera Martinović Horror fiction has intrigued and entertained people ever since it appeared in the end of the 18th century. Stephen King is one of the most famous modern horror novelists, and the novel It definitely proves King’s belonging to this genre. The novel portrays the lives of the Losers Club, a group of children in Derry, who face It, a mysterious shape-shifting monster that kills children in their town. This thesis deals with the concept of fear presented in this novel, the characters’ views...
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The Concept of Power in Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
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Laura Vajnand Long before Goethe wrote his Faust (1808), Christopher Marlowe wrote his play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1592-93). The play follows the story of a young scholar Faustus who, after learning everything he could, sold his soul to the devil for the knowledge forbidden to him and all humans. Faustus, through various means, wants to gain power and this paper will focus on how the said power is depicted throughout the play – through divine, infernal, and human points of view. Divine...
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The Concept of Self-Reliance in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Ana Juzbašić American literature of the nineteenth century provided an abundance of literary icons. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the leader of the Transcendentalist movement, and novelist and satirist Mark Twain are undoubtedly among the most prominent representatives of the period. Both Emerson and Twain tried to portray what it really meant to be an American, and the unique identity they shaped in their texts has remained in American national consciousness to this day. Seemingly...
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The Concept of the American Dream in S. Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby and A. Miller's Death of a Salesman
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Tina Hocenski The American Dream was created by the first settlers who came to America. For them
the Dream was connected to God and religion, and they believed that if they worked hard
enough, God would elect them when the apocalypse came. Yet, when they began connecting the
Dream with the ability to succeed and accumulate material wealth, the Dream started to be
corrupted. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1940) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby (1925) both deal with this topic....
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The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Viktoria Svalina This paper explores Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, particularly the themes of beauty, love, lost innocence, and prejudice that both novels have in common. After a short insight into the theoretical background of the paper, the paper revolves around the question to what extent beauty and love impact various characters in the novels. In the second chapter, the concepts of beauty in Oscar Wilde’s work are discussed by focusing on Dorian Gray’s...
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The Connection between the Dream Dimension and the Hero's Journey in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
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Antonio Pepić The goal of this paper will be to determine in what manner the archetype of the hero’s journey, as explained by Joseph Campbell, intertwines with the dream dimension and how much influence the environments and literary tropes that are characteristic for dreams in literature have on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Additionally, through the analysis of these elements, the paper will also touch upon some of the basic themes connected to the whole of Conrad’s opus, such as his overall...
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The Consequences of Slavery on the Former Slave Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved
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Luka Benaković This paper analyses Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved on the basis of slavery and the
consequences that it had on the former slaves in the novel. The first part of the paper deals with
the history of slavery and the methods with which the slaves were controlled by the slave
owners, and with the significance this history had in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. The analysis
introduces Sethe, Baby Suggs, Paul D, and Stamp, respectively. Each paragraph focuses only
on one character from the novel...
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