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The Portrayal of the Female Experience of the Second World War in Sarah Waters's The Night Watch
Fialová, Lucie ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis is concerned with the portrayal of the female experience with the Second World War in The Night Watch (2006) by contemporary British writer Sarah Waters. The theoretical part outlines the socio-historical background of the novel with particular attention to the female experience of the Second World War in various fields, such as their family lives, job opportunities, and everyday life during the Blitz. Special attention is also given to the description of the female experience with abortion during the war and the lifestyles of female homosexuals in that historical period. The thesis further presents the theoretical delimitation of the neo-historical genre, of which the novel is a representative, and briefly introduces the novel in the context of Sarah Waters's other works in order to establish the basis for the analysis. The practical part of the thesis relies on the theoretical part and examines how the fictional portrayal of the female experience corresponds with the outlined reality. Simultaneously, the work considers how Waters uses the Second World War in her fictional story and which elements she chooses to highlight. Moreover, it discusses the reasons behind emphasising these elements in the novel and how it corresponds to the neo-historical genre. KEYWORDS Sarah Waters;...
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Female Gothic in Sarah Waters' Fingersmith and The Little Stranger
Gajdošíková, Veronika ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Higgins, Bernadette (referee)
This bachelor's thesis analyses two novels by Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (2002) and The Little Stranger (2009), and analyses them through two different theories of Female Gothic, which is a subgenre of Gothic literature. Both books are replete with female characters experiencing feelings of confinement in the house they live in as well as darkness, and the supernatural. All of these features are crucial when defining the Female Gothic. One by one, the two theories will be applied to the novels. The author of the first is Anne Williams, who contrasts Female Gothic mode with Male Gothic mode. She distinguishes between these modes using the narrator, the approach to the supernatural, and the conclusion of the plot. The second concept is by Ellen Moers. She establishes that all Gothic books written by women are Female Gothics, however, she also highlights the setting of the story and the feelings it evokes in female characters. The subject of interpretation will be the narrator, the supernatural elements and the conclusion of the novels. Attention will also be paid to houses and madhouses that appear in Fingersmith and The Little Stranger, and the feelings of confinement, gloominess, and hopelessness they induce in the female characters. The aim of this thesis is to discover if, according to Williams,...
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