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Autobiographical Reflections in Jane Austen's Fictional World
Vošmíková, Marcela ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with autobiographical reflections in selected novels of Jane Austen. The theoretical part looks into the social, historical, and cultural background in Jane Austen's lifetime. It also gives a general outline of literary genres in the late 18th and early 19th century. The practical part is focused on the analysis of various aspects in six Austen's books within the context of the available information about the writer's life. These novels are: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. This part deals with the question concerning an extent to which Austen's writing, the fictional worlds of her novels, can be attributed to the influence of her personal life and experience.
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Garden as an Aesthetic Object
PODVALOVÁ, Lenka
This bachelor's thesis focuses mainly on the English Landscape Gardens of the 17th and 18th centuries and the perception of the landscape of that time, with which this issue is closely related. Through various conceptions of the notion of the garden, description of the process of human reflection on nature from antiquity to modern age, the definition of the English park and its style with examples in practice, we get to the final part of the work, namely the demonstration of landscape and garden in literary works, for this purpose some works of the English writer Jane Austen have been selected. In her descriptions of nature and gardens, she perfectly captured the atmosphere and also emotional impact on the human who is located in the landscape and Landscape gardens as well.
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Marriage and Class in Jane Austen's Novels
GRANT, Veronika
This bachelor thesis deals with those issues pursued by Jane Austen in her novels, this being the plight of women upon the then social classes and conventions and their influence on the importance of love and marriage. The aim of the thesis is to show what impact social hierarchy had on society and how these conventions influenced one's manner. The thesis will be divided into four parts, with the first part being dedicated to the introduction that is to bring us into the overall concept of Regency society, Jane Austen's life and the influence it had on her work, the second part tackling the issue of Morals and Behaviour within the Matter of Social Classes and Conventions and the third and fourth parts focusing on the particular issue of love and marriage and its economic benefits.
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The influence of polite manners on communication in and structure of Jane Austen's Novels
Horáková, Eliška ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
This thesis is primarily concerned with individual structural analyses of Jane Austen's novels. It employs a new theory of story structure called Dramatica, which makes a departure from the standard methods of analysis that have trouble penetrating deeper than the surface structure of a story, and rather studies the basic conflicts between the individual components of the story. The thesis shows the advantages of this approach and tentatively recommends the ways in which it could be used in future works. The following part explores the changes in both society and literature (in particular concerning the development of the novel) which predated and therefore could influence Jane Austen. It also points out certain customs and behaviours which are not familiar to the present day reader and the knowledge of which can both simplify and enrich the study of the works. The final part applies the results of the analyses (the most important themes of the novels) to some passages from the stories. The aim is firstly to show the complexity and interconnectedness of Jane Austen's oeuvre, and secondly, to show it in the context of the conventions of the time.
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Who was your mother? Who are your uncles and aunts? The concept of family background and selected demographic phenomena in the work of Jane Austen in comparison with the Austen family and historical-demographic research for England at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries
Šimsová, Marie ; Doležalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Horský, Jan (referee)
The presented master thesis deals with the work of Jane Austen. The author's novels are analysed from the perspective of the concept of the family, both from a literary and demographic point of view. These research questions constitutes two subject of the examination. The first subject is the family, as it is the cornerstone of Jane Austen's short stories. The objective of this work is to analyse the extent to which family relationships determine the possibilities of the main characters and heroines; how the heroines benefit from family ties or, on the contrary, want to escape from them. The conclusions show that Austen applied this determination in all studied novels. This work further examines the degree of cooperation and rivalry of the individual families in the novels. At this point, a significant diversity of interfamily relationships was found. Secondly, this work maps selected demographic idiosyncrasies in Jane Austen's family, in the families from her short stories, and in historical demographic studies of England at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. This thesis focuses on the number and composition of individual families, their origin, social status, property relations and to some extent legal relationships, mainly related to the issue of inheritance and the situation of widows in...
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Portraying Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice on Film
Kostrouchová, Veronika ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
Thesis abstract This study explores Jane Austen's renowned novel Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of its film adaptations, focusing on five adaptations. Each adaptation interprets the novel differently and embodies a different reading of the novel. The study concentrates on the analysis of the film adaptations of Jane Austen's novel but also evaluates what has changed over time in the perception, understanding, and appreciation of the characters and their actions, through the changes made in each adaptation. While it is apparent that each film adaptation differs from one another and from the novel itself, the questions of why these changes have been made and what purpose they serve will be addressed. The primary focus is on the heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and on the hero, Mr. Darcy, how their personas have been portrayed in each adaptation and as a result how the expectations of the viewing public are met and created by the film industry. The deployment of characters as well as the portrayal of key moments in the novel are investigated to show the changing perception of the position of women in society, romantic relationships, social and family life. The First part of this study deals with the critical reception and public response of the Hollywood film version from 1940. The Second part of the...
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me": Female Independence in the English Novel 1795 - 1820
Jiránková, Lucie ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Horová, Miroslava (referee)
In the 1790s, the framework of women's protests against the injustice they faced underwent a distinctive change, which inevitably imprinted itself into contemporary literature. The period discussed in this thesis was chosen to exemplify the beginnings of feminist awakening present in the novels of three women writers: Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane Austen. The aim of this thesis is to explore different attitudes towards attaining emotional, intellectual, social, and economic independence, while simultaneously discussing the period's construction of femininity, the discourse of natural rights, the issue of education, romantic love, and sensibility. The introductory chapter describes the historical background and looks closely on the position of women in contemporary society in terms of their familiar and social status, economic dependence, education, character shaping, and their objectification of the marriage market. It also presents the view of women as depicted in conduct manuals and the works of the Jacobin (and also Anti-Jacobin) novelists. Finally, it introduces the novelists in question and elaborates on the influence of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women on the authors under analysis. The second chapter focuses its attention on the depiction of female independence in...
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Reforming the Heroine: Female Characters in Late Eighteenth-Century English Women's Novels
Teichmanová, Klaudia ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee)
This thesis explores the reformed heroine tradition in the English literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It focuses on four novels: The Reform'd Coquet by Mary Davys from 1724, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Haywood from 1751, Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney from 1778 and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from 1813. In the centre of the thesis stands the fallible heroine who is capable of development. The first chapter concerns the social changes of the eighteenth century which introduced the idea of companionate marriage, and it explores the establishing novel of the reformed heroine tradition, The Reform'd Coquet. It stipulates the main characteristics of the reformed heroine character: inexperience, vanity, absence of a reliable authority and overrating her own judgment. Additionally, it describes the relationship of the reformed coquette and the lover-mentor and notices the absence of female guardianship. The second chapter focuses on The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and explores similarities and differences between Betsy and Amoranda. It also describes Haywood's critics on the discrepancy in approach to male and female virtue and the hypocrisy of distinguishing between the public appearance and...
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