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Jane Austen's characters Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse and their social position
HRDÁ, Linda
This thesis aims to analyze the social status of the main characters in Jane Austen's novels, specifically Pride and Prejudice and Emma. The bachelor thesis is divided into four chapters. The first deals with the author Jane Austen, her life and work, and then focus on the authors who influenced Austen in her writing. The second chapter brings us closer to the time when the author lived in England in the 19th century. The era was called the Regency Era and we going to look at the role and differences in the lives of women and men and the economic situation, both in general in the 19th century and in Jane Austen's novels. Examples of how much the main male characters earned going to be given. The third part finally focuses on the main character of the novel, Emma. It describes the features that make Emma different from the other heroines in the rest of Austen's novels, while also discussing her position in the circle of society in which she existed. The second sub-chapter reveals the relationship with the closest characters with whom Emma came into contact. The last chapter of Elizabeth Bennet has a slightly different structure than the previous one, even though the work tries to cast the main characters in the same light. It defines the limits of the Bennet family, which is related to their income and therefore limits their social status in society. Elizabeth's womanhood is also included in the last chapter. At the end of the work, I compare our two heroines, specifically their personalities, views on marriage, character development, and social status.
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Women Writers during the Romantic Era with Respect to the Victorian Tradition
MALÁ, Monika
The aim of the thesis is to characterise the work of contemporary British women writers and their legacy during the 19th century whose literary work conveys elements of Romanticism and elements of critical realism typical for the Victorian literary tradition. Firstly, the thesis focuses on the description and background of the literary period of British Romanticism, its key features, representatives, and its contribution to literature. The core of the thesis focuses on literary analysis of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice and the novels of the Brontë sisters, particularly Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The emphasis is on comparison of the romantic and realistic elements found in the novels. In the end, the thesis tries to evaluate the impact of British female writers on the contemporary society and the shift towards equal rights in the context of Victorian England.
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Hidden Feminism in Jane Austen's Novels
ZEMANOVÁ, Eva
The goal of this paper is the analysis of hidden feminism in the works of Jane Austen, namely her novels Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. The bachelor thesis is divided into three parts. The first part addresses the living conditions of women in the upper middle class. We will pay attention to several specific aspects of their life and expectations connected to their social status. In the second part, we will concentrate on the display of these aspects and their feminist interpretation in the work Pride and Prejudice, namely through its main heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and the situations she faces. The third part focuses on analysing of the work Mansfield Park, describing the difficult standing of Fanny Price, the main heroine of this novel. Finally, the thesis pays attention to factors which demonstrate Fanny's self-development and the feminism hidden in this novel.
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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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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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Srovnání dvou českých překladů románu Persuasion od Jane Austenové
ČERVÁKOVÁ, Terezie
This bachelor thesis deals with the comparison of two translations of English novel Persuasion which was written by Jane Austen. The first translation Anna Elliotová was translated by Eva Ruxová. The second one, which is called Pýcha a přemlouvání, was translated by Eva Kondrysová. The time difference between these two translations is thirty-nine years. Another difference is also the approach of both translators to translation. This bachelor thesis examines the lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic level and it compares selected sections of the texts.
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The Portrayal of Jane Austen's Male Characters/Charakteristika mužských postav v románech Jane Austenové
HALAMOVÁ, Anna
The thesis introduces Jane Austen as the founder of the realistic tradition of Victorian novel, also as the representative of sentimentalism in English literature. Furthermore, it briefly characterizes the key novels which are going to be analysed in the practical part. The main aim is to characterise the male characters besides the traditional portrayal of the independent heroines. The thesis compares analysed novels from heroes' point of view a tries to stress out their importance beside the heroines.
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