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Žánrová analýza antiutopie v dílech George Orwella
TEZNEROVÁ, Veronika
The purpose of the bachelor's thesis Genre analysis of anti-utopia in George Orwell's works is to analyse the anti-utopian works Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949) written by British writer George Orwell. The first part of this bachelor thesis will shortly introduce the author's life not only as a critic but also as an essayist and journalist, the start of his literary career, and the process of writing the literary works mentioned earlier. The middle part of the thesis is dedicated to utopia and dystopia: its definition, history, and its evolution in literature as a fiction genre and ideology in totalitarianism. In the last, crucial part of the bachelor's thesis, we will proceed to the analysis of the works Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four and we will be examining their genre classification.
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The concept of totalitarianism in the works of George Orwel.
Pelán, Štěpán ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Zicha, Zbyněk (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to characterize the way George Orwell viewed the totalitarianism and how he portrayed this phenomenon in his works. The fundamental part is an analysis of the characteristics of totalitarian regimes in Orwell's most important works 1984 and Animal Farm. For a deeper understanding of Orwell's view of totalitarian regimes, his life and the events that shaped his political thinking were also discussed in more detail. In addition to the aforementioned, the work also includes a general characteristic of the typical features of totalitarianism and general principles of totalitarian regimes, referring to the historical and political context of the twentieth century of selected states, such as the USSR, Germany or Czechoslovakia. This section is followed by an analysis of selected works by authors who dealt with totalitarianism from the view of political theory, such as Hannah Arendt, F.A. Hayek, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Ernst Jünger. Though George Orwell described himself as a leftist and a socialist, he strictly rejected any form of totalitarian rule, and, as he wrote in one of his essays, much of his work was anti- totalitarian. His attitude towards totalitarianism began to emerge during the Spanish Civil War, in which he actively participated. There he also met for the first...
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