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Key Motifs in Oscar Wilde's and H. C. Andersen's Fairy Tales
VOMASTKOVÁ, Kateřina
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the key motifs appearing in the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde and Hans Christian Andersen. The theoretical part focuses on the characterization of fairy tale and the motifs that define works of both authors in the field of children´s literature. Further, the work introduces both authors and their work and tries to define H. Ch. Andersen´s impact on children´s Victorian literature and integrate works of Oscar Wilde into the context of Victorian prose. The core of the work constitutes the analysis of the selected motifs in Andersen´s and Wilde´s fairy tales with regard to religion (motif of good and evil, motif of repentance, motif of love and motif of sacrifice). In the end the thesis tries to define common features and motifs in the fairy tales of both authors, and it mentions Andersen´s impact on the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde.

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