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Human Corruption and Dystopian Motifs in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and George Orwell's 1984
Braňka, Štěpán ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on a brief analysis of the novels 1984 and A Clockwork Orange. It analyzes their differences, what they have in common and the ways in which George Orwell and Anthony Burgess implement dystopian motifs in their novels. The theoretical part deals with inspirations for both the novels and their connections to the real world and real 20th century totalitarian regimes. The practical part analyses the two dystopian worlds in the novels, their governments, protagonists and languages. It explores the novels with regard to the themes described in the theoretical part. Key Words: dystopia, totalitarianism, 1984, A Clockwork Orange
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Influences on the 21st century English-written dystopian literature
Petrová, Eva ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
1 ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to describe, analyze and explain major influences on the development of dystopian literature of the 21st century written in English. Those influences are described and illustrated on selected literary works, specifically on Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood, Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins, Matched (2010) by Ally Condie, and The Bone Season (2013) by Samantha Shannon. The theoretical part aims to explain the term dystopia, to define dystopia as a genre, and to describe its history. This part also deals with the influences on the development of dystopia, focused especially on the 20th century, and with the summaries of the books selected for the use in the practical part. The practical part focuses on the major influences on the development of dystopian literature of the 21st century written in English. Those are influences relating to methods of social control, scientific and technological advancements, and from various apocalyptic ideas and visions, such as wars and diseases. The practical part includes descriptions of the influences, their explanations, and subdivisions, following by illustrations of those influences on the selected literary works. KEY WORDS Dystopia, dystopian novel, the 21st century, major...
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Three significant trends in young adult literature
Stupková, Kateřina ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis called Three significant trends in young adult literature is to analyse this literary category in the Czech Republic; to describe the publishing houses focusing on this type of literature and to determine, if there are any trends - and if so to describe them. The first chapter states different definitions of so called YA literature and its understanding abroad and in the Czech Republic among the publishers. In the next chapter I characterise the main trends in YA literature that already exist and also those that could emerge, according to literary agents and publishers. In the next part of this thesis I describe three chosen genres: urban fantasy, fairy tale retellings and dystopian novels and I analyse four series determined as typical for respective genres: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. Each analysis is followed by the description of media response to the chosen series. The thesis also includes the interviews with editors from chosen publishing houses focusing on YA literature: Tereza Pecáková from CooBoo, Jakub Šedivý from Fragment, Lucie Kučová from Egmont and Eva Sedláčková and Jiří Štěpán from Host. This practical part is preceded by a theoretical...
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Antiutopia in Japanese Anime: An Analysis of the Ideological Structures in the Fictional World of the Movie The Sky Crawlers
Brinda, Antonín ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Španihelová, Magda (referee)
Antiutopie v japonském anime: Analýza ideologických struktur ve fikčním světě filmu Nebeští jezdci Antiutopia in Japanese Anime: An Analysis of the Ideological Structures in the Fictional World of the Movie The Sky Crawlers Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra filmových studií Bakalářská práce Řešitel: Bc. Antonín Brinda Vedoucí práce: PhDr. Kateřina Svatoňová, PhD. Abstract (in English) The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse Japanese antiutopic animated movie The Sky Crawlers directed by Mamoru Oshii. The work tries to research the ideological structuring of this film's fictional world. The ideological background of the movie is analysed using Louis Pierre Althusser's ideology criticism together with Lubomír Doležel's fictional worlds theory. We combine these (structuralistic) tools to examine the impact of ideology in the movie as a whole. Design of this picture is examined in relation to its antiutopic genre. That is why we put emphasis on the picture's wider (anti)utopic/dystopic context. For a better understanding of the genre we define two antiutopic conditions which serve to make its definition clear. The neoformalistic theory as formulated by Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell is used as a complement to the approaches mentioned above. The theory is used to analyse the...
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Modern Dystopia and Contemporary Western Society
Macháček, Jiří ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Franěk, Jakub (referee)
The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the contemporary western society is reflected in the modern dystopian works' perspective. Key problems and aspects defining today's western society, e.g. consumerism and the role of science and technology, are specified in the introductory part of the thesis. The next part concerns with dystopian creation. Firstly there is focus on dystopian genre characteristics and its roots and typology. Secondly there is introduced a triad of classical dystopian works' representatives: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Every work is shortly introduced with its synopsis in the beginning and key features of described visions of society follow afterwards. Then the thesis speaks about chosen modern dystopian works' representatives in detail: The Matrix by the Wachowskis, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. After the synopsis summary of each there is an analysis of key features, a comparison with classical dystopias and a search for parallels in the contemporary western society. Questions how modern dystopias reflect modern society and how they correlate with classical dystopias and expert literature concerning contemporary social phenomena are answered in the conclusion of the thesis.
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