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The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Concepts of Beauty and Love in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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...
The Connection between the Dream Dimension and the Hero's Journey in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
The Connection between the Dream Dimension and the Hero's Journey in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
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...
The Consequences of Slavery on the Former Slave Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved
The Consequences of Slavery on the Former Slave Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved
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...
The Contribution of Grunge to Social Change
The Contribution of Grunge to Social Change
Zrinka Korać
This paper explores grunge, a music genre that developed in Seattle, Washington during the 1990s. The aim is to show how grunge contributed to changes primarily in the American society as it moved from underground to mainstream and became a primary pop cultural movement in the 90s. It also became a subculture which has its special characteristics like a certain way of dressing, behaving etc. The paper follows the evolution of grunge from its beginning in the 1980s. Thanks to Sub Pop, an...
The Death of the American Dream
The Death of the American Dream
Iva Pavlović
This paper will focus on the decline of the American Dream and the reasons for its decline. The American Dream is dying because certain social and economic changes that have occurred in America have made it impossible for the majority of Americans to achieve their Dream. The original traditional American values gave rise to the development of the American Dream and the portrayal of America as ‘the land of opportunity.’ However, with time, the original values as well as the American Dream...
The Degeneration of the Imperial Truth into Religious Dogma in Warhammer 40.000
The Degeneration of the Imperial Truth into Religious Dogma in Warhammer 40.000
Mario Paradžiković
The universe of Warhammer 40,000 fosters one of the most draconian forms of humanity in all of fiction. This zealously religious Imperium of Mankind is defined by xenophobia and hatred, with all of its planets exporting millions of men, women, and children to sustain the countless war efforts across its myriad battlefields. The ruler of this Imperium is the titular God-Emperor of Mankind, one venerated by every single loyal Imperial citizen; anything less is met with death or worse. This...
The Depiction of Women Characters in John Green's Novels/Prikaz ženskih likova u romanima Johna Greena
The Depiction of Women Characters in John Green's Novels/Prikaz ženskih likova u romanima Johna Greena
Helena Nikolašević
Most young adult novels nowadays deal with teenage issues, such as young love, self-confidence, heartbreak, and similar. The protagonists of such stories are boys and girls that are mostly considered as “outcasts” in their schools or neighbourhoods and who meet another person that is either on the same side of the spectrum or the complete opposite. The authors of such novels tend to use the same formula in these stories: either a girl meets a boy who changes her life forever or a boy is...
The Depiction of Women Characters in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
The Depiction of Women Characters in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
Zrinka Mavretić
The play A Streetcar Named Desire, often regarded as one of the best plays of the twentieth century, was written in 1947 by American playwright Tennessee Williams. One of the recurring themes in the play is the conflict between fantasy and reality, honesty and lies, best depicted through the female protagonists of the play: Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski. They are sisters, the last representatives of a once aristocratic yet now moribund family. Blanche and Stella are both dependent on...
The Destruction of Southern Patriarchal Values in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
The Destruction of Southern Patriarchal Values in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Petra Mađerek
The Sound and the Fury is one of the most complex novels of William Faulkner and of Southern literature in general. The themes of the novel are numerous, yet the theme this BA paper is focused on the most is the death and destruction of the traditional South and its ideals. The destruction will be shown through the analysis of the novel’s main characters’ tragic fates. The concluding chapter of the paper brings a note of optimism for the survival of the traditional Southern ideals.
The Development of Figurative Competence of Students of English
The Development of Figurative Competence of Students of English
Matej Adlešić
Figurative competence refers to the ability to understand and interpret figurative speech – in other words, utterances such as metaphors and metonymy, which are cases in which we use certain words to express something different from what we literally said. These expressions serve as ways to say ordinary things in extraordinary ways, which have to be properly used by speakers (or writers) and properly decoded by listeners (or readers) in order to have the desired effect. As students get...
The Development of the Speaking Skill: a textbook analysis
The Development of the Speaking Skill: a textbook analysis
Lada Dumančić
This paper focuses on the development of the speaking skill in English as a foreign language in the elementary school. The research was done on the corpus of tasks compiled on the basis of the analysis of the “Dip In” textbooks and workbooks for English as a foreign language in primary school. The paper contains two main parts. The first part deals with the theoretical background related to the speaking skill and the second part describes the research regarding the speaking tasks in the...
The Digital Age of Feminism
The Digital Age of Feminism
Lucija Belošević
Since the inception of the feminist movement, literature has been an invaluable tool in spreading its messages of equality and liberation, as well as immortalizing the observations and conclusions made by the women who have spearheaded the movement. Over the centuries, the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, bell hooks and so many more have shaped feminist thought and the course of the movement at large. In the recent years, feminists have begun to find their...

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