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Marriage and the position of women in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Dlouhá, Michaela ; Higgins, Bernadette (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
TITLE: Marriage and the Position of Women in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre AUTHOR: Michaela Dlouhá DEPARTMENT: Department of the English Language and Literature SUPERVISOR: Bernadette Higgins, M.A. ABSTRACT: The thesis aims to explore the position of women in the Victorian era, particularly with regard to marriage, and to see how this is reflected in these two novels - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The theoretical part explores the legal and social situation of women in the early nineteenth century and the practical part firstly analyses the novels separately to see how both authors reflect the realities facing women of the era. The last section of the practical part offers the overall comparison of the two chosen novels and examines differences and similarities in the central messages and in the final achievement of independence, equality and justice. KEY WORDS: Brontë sisters, marriage, Angel in the House, education, feminism, legal form, Victorian era, the church
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Contextualising or relativising evil? A probe into US antebellum slavery
Kubíček, Jan ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the abolition of antebellum slavery in the US through a leftist prism introduced by Michael Parenti. The first part provides a brief explanation of Parenti's theory on an example of the late Roman republic and its politico-economic background, which is depicted in The Assassination of Julius Caesar. In this part is also covered the historical precedent of slavery along with specific scientifically based arguments in favour of slavery developed by Samuel Cartwright. The last chapter gives a description of the process of abolition and eventually an analogy between Roman senatorial democracy and the antebellum slavery is established on a premise that in both the cases the privileged social class influenced historical narration of those events for its own benefit to cover its economic interests. Keywords: Michael Parenti, slavery, historical narrative, exploitation, Samuel Cartwright, the process of abolition
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Chitra B. Divakaruni and her feminist take on Indian traditions
Rayová, Roxana ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
The thesis explores the way in which selected short fiction by Banerjee Divarakuni is reflective of her stance on Indian traditions. Divarakuni is seen as one of the most recent and eloquent female voices in contemporary Indian literature, one which re-evaluates the Indian tradition in the light of modernity and postmodernity. In these efforts, she is standing on the shoulders of centuries if not millennia of literature by women that both condones and critiques Indian tradition. And that is also the dichotomy that can be observed in what is widely seen as Divarakuni's masterpiece, the thematically-organized collection of short stories called Arranged Marriage. The thesis therefore seeks to establish the degree to which these stories criticize traditional Indian customs and values, and to which degree the stories portray the more benign aspects of that tradition.
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