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The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"
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Mirijam Filipović This diploma paper elaborately describes the awakening of Edna Pontellier’s character. She gains her independence, liberation of her real character and sexual desire through series of little awakenings. Women’s position in the late nineteenth century is being discussed, because in this novel, through the character of the main protagonist Edna, Kate Chopin is showing experiences of a woman trapped in that time. With her naturalistic narrative style Chopin has perfectly depicted a woman...
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The Awakening of the "New Woman" in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Maja Fabijanac This paper discusses the development of female psyche in nineteenth century American literature. Three literary texts by prominent female authors were taken into consideration as a model for this research – the novel The Awakening (1899) written by Kate Chopin, Trifles (1916), a play in one act by Susan Glaspell, and A Room of One’s Own (1929), an essay on feminist criticism by Virginia Woolf. This paper is divided into three chapters, each discussing one particular author. Chapters...
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The Battle Against Racial Discrimination in America: Peaceful Protests
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Jelena Karakaš The United States was created upon the claim that all men are created equal but when one takes a closer look into American history, it becomes evident that those who were not of the white race suffered discrimination, exploitation and deprivation of basic human and civil rights. Despite the hardships and hatred directed at them, the African Americans chose to gain equality and overcome the prejudices and discrimination by fighting violence using chiefly non-violent methods. The aim of the...
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The Beat Generation and the American Counterculture of the 1960s
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Izabela Tomakić This paper analyzes and presents a survey of American mainstream culture of the 1950s, the Beat Generation, and the counterculture of the 1960s. Both the 1950s Beat movement and the hippie movement of the 1960s were a reaction to the affluent and materialistic capitalist society of the 1950s and 1960s. They emphasized uniqueness and beauty of the individual, and attacked the dehumanizing effects of materialism and industrialism. These movements were critical of the mainstream culture and its...
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The Byronic Hero in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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Dunja Dujić Emily Brontë’s only novel Wuthering Heights challenged the traditional literary conventions due to its exploration of themes of desire, violence, and complexity of human emotions. Despite the initial neglect, the novel has gained recognition as a timeless classic. The archetypal hero created by Lord Byron served as an inspiration for Heathcliff, the protagonist of Wuthering Heights. This paper aims to analyze Heathcliff’s character by drawing upon the characteristics associated with the...
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The Challenges of Translating Advertisements and Slogans
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Ana Komljenović The paper studies translations of advertisements based on the strategies used for translating advertisements and slogans. All the advertisements were translated or adapted from English into Croatian, and analysed according to a set of strategies, which are often used in the translation of advertisements. The set of strategies that is presented in the paper was made through a close examination of relevant literature in the field of advertising and translation. The main source of data for...
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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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