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Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta, Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Development of Femininity and Masculinity in the 1920s
KREJZLOVÁ, Anna
The main aim of this thesis is the analysis of the characters from Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) and Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta (1926) with a focus on the female protagonists. To fully understand the characters, the work first concentrates on the historical background. The theory primarily centres on the American society living in the 1920s, discusses the term The Lost Generation, provides an overview of the changes the women experienced in relation to the term a New Woman, and examines the real-life models that inspired both authors in creating the female characters. Subsequently, the work analyses female characters according to several themes: social standing, money, appearance, morals, relationships, and power. After the analysis, the problem of masculinity is discussed. At first, the thesis describes the changes in the perception of manliness from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century and then, the male characters and their view on masculinity is examined in relation to the theoretical background.
Violence, Manipulation and a Persecuted Heroine in Vladimir Nabokov´s Lolita and John Fowles´s Collector
KREJZLOVÁ, Anna
This bachelor thesis deals with two postmodern novels: The Collector (1963) of the British novelist John R. Fowles and Lolita (1955) by the American writer Vladimir V. Nabokov. At first the thesis focuses on a brief overview of both authors' lives, as well as on the postmodern tendencies in their works, moreover it provides a short description of postmodernism itself. Next, the main features of the Gothic novel and its founders are described along with the characters of their major works. With respect to the Gothic tradition, Edgar A. Poe's short stories are introduced with the emphasis on his evil manipulative characters. Subsequently, the previous antiheroes and heroines from the Gothic novels are compared to the contemporary characters from The Collector and Lolita. In the following chapters, the thesis pays attention to a brief summary of both novels and then it focuses on the comparative analysis of selected themes: surroundings and their function, the loss of freedom, narrators and their communication with readers, conscience and the loss of identity.

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