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The Myth of Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's Poems
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Josipa Gržić Sylvia Plath’s impactful literary works challenge cultural standards and shed light on women’s struggles in the twentieth century. This paper examines the cultural context in which they were written by focusing on the changing understanding of motherhood presented in Plath’s poetry. The analysis is done through the lens of social constructionism and the idea that a seemingly biological notion, such as motherhood, becomes a social myth. This paper explores Plath’s portrayal of...
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The Myth of Prometheus in Shelley and Goethe/Mit o Prometeju u djelima Shelleya i Goethea
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Benjamin Lovrić The myth of Prometheus is one of the most known myths in Greek mythology. It speaks about a titan Prometheus, who tricked Zeus and stole fire from the Mount Olympus. He gave this fire to the humans and thus saved humanity from Zeus’ vengeance. For this he was punished and was chained to Caucasus, where an eagle would come each day and consume his liver. The first chapter of this paper focuses on the myth of Prometheus itself, describing it in detail and explicating its significance. The...
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The Mythic World in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Novels
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Emma Karika Mythological places, characters, and events have been the topic of many tales, epics, poems, plays, and other literary works. Mythology continues to serve as an inspiration to many authors across all literary periods, even to modern young adult fantasy writers such as Rick Riordan who in his Percy Jackson series skillfully and creatively merges the world of Greek mythology with the modern world we live in. He takes mythological elements and gives them a new, modern form, which enables their...
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The Nature of Hero(es) in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"
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Antonija Magić The Hobbit is a children’s fantasy novel written by a widely respected English linguist and writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien, famous for his vigorous defence of fantastic literature, wrote a poignant chronicle of a hobbit Bilbo Baggins set in Middle-earth in the years 2941 to 2942 of the Third Age. Although primarily a fairy tale, the book is both complex and sophisticated when all of its intricacies are taken into consideration. The novel depicts rises and falls of Bilbo Baggins...
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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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