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Fairytales reinvented: How the heroines shape their own destiny in Robin McKinley's fairytale retellings Beauty, Rose Daughter and Deerskin
KONOPISKÁ, Helena
This thesis focuses on heroines of Robin McKinley's fairy tale revisions. The introduction concerns fairy tale retellings as a genre and Robin McKinley as an author. The rest of the thesis is divided into two main parts. In the first, McKinley's retellings of "Beauty and the Beast", Beauty and Rose Daughter, are introduced. Second part of the thesis revolves around a fairy tale "Donkeyskin" that McKinley retold in her novel Deerskin. The heroines of McKinley's novels are compared with their respective counterparts from the classical versions of the fairy tale. The issue of their character traits and their agency is explored. The conclusion summarizes the findings.
Classical Fairytales Motif´s in Czech Movie (1970 - 1975)
BEČKOVÁ, Lucie
The objective of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the ways of the classical fairy tales substances in the czech movies that have been processed in the years 1970 - 1975. At first I discussed with the question of the elaboration of the literary work of the film. Then I explained the consequence of the adaptation, interpretation and performance, because these terms are main topics of the thesis. Then I started with the individual analyzes of the film adaptations of the fairy tales. For my thesis, I chose the fairy tales like The Goldilocks, The Beauty and the Beast and The Prince Bajaja. I compared the book and movie forms of the two mentioned fairy tales. In each of them I was concerned on the analysis of the protagonists and on the individual characteristics and functions also. I also analyzed some elements of the fairy tales. I didn?t leave out of consideration the techniques that are showing characters into the story as well.

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