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Boarding school as a penal institution in works Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse and The Monastery School by Barbara Frischmuth
Polednová, Markéta ; Markvartová, Eva (advisor) ; Glosíková, Viera (referee)
1 ABSTRACT This bachelor thesis deals with the perception of boarding school as a penal institution in boarding school literature. For this purpose, Unterm Rad (1906) by the German writer Hermann Hesse and Die Klosterschule (1968) by the Austrian writer Barbara Frischmuth are analysed and compared. Firstly, the characteristics of boarding school life are introduced, including the structure, different types and relationships in the boarding schools. Then the genre of boarding school literature is defined with its typical characteristics and exemplary works. The following chapters focus primarily on the role of the boarding school in the protagonists' lives. Secondly, the characters of great importance to the protagonists are discussed. A brief mention is made of the authors, and both works' structure and narrative style. Finally, attention is drawn to similarities and differences between selected works. The setting of both works is a Catholic boarding school, in which the strict influence of education on the protagonists is apparent. While Hermann Hesse describes a period of a boy's life and his development in Unterm Rad, Die Klosterschule consists of individual moments depicting boarding school life with its typical habits. This work is used to understand boarding school life with its particularities and...
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