Kritická analýza hlavních mužských postav v románech sester Brontëových

Radová, Hana

Thesis abstract The novels of the Brontë sisters share numerous aspects: defiant heroines, male protagonists as the source of the central conflict, 1st-person layered narrative structure, historical settings, and a redeemed morality as the solution to distortion of harmony. Notably, the authors employ the novel as a medium through which they explore not only the themes of individual ethics, but also the possibilities of female self-realization in a society dominated by patriarchy. The authors' incorporation of the Byronic hero as a principle of destruction into their narratives accentuates the typically Victorian concept of doubt and self-searching not only in their male protagonists, but also in their heroines. Therefore, the male protagonists as the representatives of male dominance are crucial in understanding the development of the Brontës' individual narratives. This thesis attempts to analyse three male protagonists of the Brontës' greatest novels: Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, Edward Fairfax Rochester of Jane Eyre, and Arthur Huntingdon of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Heathcliff's foreign origin brings conflict into the moorland microcosm since his character's first arrival. The destruction of his union with Catherine Earnshaw drives Heathcliff to transgress the social sphere in order to...

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