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The Influence of Slavery on Women's Relationships in Toni Morrison's Beloved
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Mihaela Šmehil This paper focuses on Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, in which Morrison presents how slavery greatly influenced the forming of relationships between the characters, especially the female characters in the novel. Morrison reconceptualizes American history in such a way, that she tells the story from a slave’s point of view, not of the white social classes. She also presents her view on female agency in the novel. Through her main character Sethe, she shows deep insight into a slave’s...
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The Influence of Social Factors on Characterization: Comparison of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
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Morena Rogalo Mark Twain wrote two most famous American novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is often called the Great American Novel. In his novels, Twain depicted American society of the antebellum period. The main characteristic of that time was the political division of the United States between abolitionists and pro-slavery supporters which strongly influenced American society both economically and socially. Since Twain was a humorist, he used complex...
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The Influence of the Ring on Various Races in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
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Nera Martinović J. R. R. Tolkien is considered to be the father of modern fantasy literature. He paved the way for many writers by establishing a unique form of fantasy literature. His most famous works are The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and many others that were written with the help of his son, Christopher, such as The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. His works describe adventures, which often revolve around a certain quest or a magical item, such as the One Ring. Since there are many races in...
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The Influence of the Super Bowl on the American Culture
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Leon Kuserbanj The Super Bowl is much more than just a regular game of American football. It is a window into American society and culture through sports, patriotism, entertainment and advertising. The paper takes a close look at the Super Bowl from its beginnings to today through different perspectives to determine its significance in American culture. The Super Bowl is seen through the perspectives of commercialism and consumerism, patriotism, the military and culture. It is explained how and why the...
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The Influence of the Victorian Society on Dickens's Hard Times
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Ivana Josipović In Hard Times Dickens provides an insight into the Victorian world. He takes on the role of a social commentator, criticizes the industrialization of England and reveals among the most urgent issues of the time the mechanization of human beings, social inequality, extinction of fancy as a consequence of industrialization, and the unjust position of women. He depicts a time suffused with advancement and change in every aspect of life and exposes the downsides of such a prosperous era. The...
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The Inner Struggles of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray
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Ana Komljenović Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray is a controversial novel about a young and beautiful man who foolishly wishes to stay young, while his portrait gets the burden of his sins and age. Dorian curses himself to a life of body separated from soul, and lives a life of pleasures. Influenced by his friends and a society in which he lives, he goes through many inner struggles; regret, guilt, confusion and lies torture him constantly. Hidden behind an innocently beautiful face, he keeps...
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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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