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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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The Pursuit of the Almighty Dollar: Salesmen in American Drama and Cinema
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Mario Iličić This paper presents an analysis of salesmen in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman (1958), David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), and in the movies The Pursuit of Happyness1 (2006) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), all of who were competing in a cruel world of trade and commerce with the aim of achieving the American Dream. The theoretical framework of the paper firstly discusses the political circumstances in England which consequently led to the creation of the American...
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The Question of Intimacy in the novels "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "1984" by George Orwell
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Tomislav Mišić George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have set the standard for contemporary literary dystopia thanks to their haunting representation of the bleak human future. They both depict and represent the degradation of human race to mere state-controlled slaves whose only purpose is to blindly obey the ruling regime and not to question authority. Both 1984 and Brave New World are considered to be prophetic pieces of literary work since almost everything described in those...
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The Question of Morality in the World of Warcraft
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Ivan Benković Written by several authors, the Warcraft novel series began to attract masses in the early 2000s. Moreover, popularized by the corresponding video game franchise Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment, the storyline got an additional boost. In 2016, it reached its peak with the release of the first movie Warcraft. The original trilogy was published by Richard A. Knaak. Later, other authors filled in the backstory and created more sequels both in written and video game format. By creating...
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