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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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The Perception of Romantic Relationships and Marriages in the Victorian Period
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Tea Šteković This paper deals with the perception of romantic relationships and marriages in the Victorian period, which unlike previous periods, emphasizes the idea of romantic and ideal love within a marriage, not just the economic and social exchange that should benefit each party. The study examines the marriage between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the new popular romance novels, and the laws passed in the second half of the nineteenth century as decisive factors that shaped public opinion...
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The Perseverance of Traditional American Values in Present Day USA: Media and the Social Environment
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Filip Šustić Since the core American values have been present from the beginning of American history and have played a crucial part in the shaping of America, they present an extremely important topic of research. Considering the numerous changes that happened from the time of America’s founding until the present, the primary goal of this paper is to establish the extent to which the core values are still present in the modern society with their representations in the media and the social context of...
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The Portrait of African-American Womanhood in Contemporary American Literature
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Marina Kovač Jurković This paper examines the position of African American women in Alice Walkers The Color Purple and Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye. By focusing on the characters such as Morrisons Celie Harris Johnson and Walkers Pecola Breedlove, it pays special attention to the suffering and abuse black women had to endure. The authors knowledge about the pain inflicted on black women is connected to their own personal history in the black community. Morrison and Walker also use their knowledge, inspiration,...
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The Portrayal of Beauty Standards in Arthur Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha"
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Viktoria Svalina Arthur Golden's famous novel Memoirs of a Geisha depicts the life of a young girl named Chiyo Sakamoto, the daughter of a poor fisherman. Afraid that he will not be able to take care of her and her sister Satsu, Chiyo's father decides to send them to Gion in hopes that they would eventually become geishas to avoid the difficulty of a poverty-stricken life. As the sisters get separated, because Satsu is not seen fit for the profession, Chiyo gradually learns how meticulous and difficult it is...
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The Portrayal of Female Characters in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
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Petra Blažeković This paper analyses central female characters in Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie (1900) and Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). It argues that both Dreiser’s Carrie and Williams’ Blanche are “fallen women” who act and present themselves as someone they are not. It also contends that in their attempt to escape poverty and the miseries of life, bothcharacters are led by strong desires, but that eventually, they attain the opposite from what they hoped...
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The Portrayal of a Soldier in the Poetry of World War I
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Filip Alić World War I poetry is regarded to this day as one of the most unique and powerful types of poetry. It is something unparalleled when compared to modern poets and their work. Writers have been depicting traumatic and surreal events for ages, but the poems from the Great War have a shattering authenticity that sets them off from other poems. These poems try to capture the reality of war which cannot easily be captured with simple or complex words and phrases, yet they succeed in doing so. Not...
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The Portrayal of the Soldier in American Civil War Literature
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Marko Šteko America’s entire history is intertwined with war; therefore, war has become a part of the American culture. Even today, it is legal for civilians in the U.S.A. to carry weapons due to the 2nd Amendment of the American Constitution. In the American Civil War (1861-1865), many young men and boys enlisted into the Union or Confederate army due to propaganda which glorified war and promised them certain victory, reputation and financial status after the war. However, there is another truth...
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The Power of Perspective in The Raven Cycle
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Andrea Dumančić This paper discusses the terms of narration and narrative, i.e. a story, a spoken or written account of events along with the narrative criteria including the existence of a human narrator, the existence of a sequence of events, and the temporal setting of a story. The paper further asserts the difference between the point of view, which is defined as who tells a story, and perspective, which shows how a character with a point of view perceives the story. These principles are analysed in The...
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The Pursuit of Money in Contemporary American Fiction
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Jelena Orlović This paper will present an analysis of the attitudes towards the American Dream and money in three major contemporary American novels. The analyzed novels will be The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald (1925), On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) and American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997). The paper will discuss the idea of the American Dream and its establishment in the American culture, the values that are connected to money and how the American Dream transformed throughout different...
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