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Narrative Techniques in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Vyprávěcí postupy v románu Brama Stokera Drákula)
NAVRÁTIL, Martin
In the beginning, the bachelor thesis characterizes the late Victorian era in the context of literature related to Scottish and Irish authors who focused on the era of decadence (Stevenson, Wilde, Stoker). The intention of the theoretical part is to analyze narrative techniques used in Bram Stoker's epistolary novel Dracula. This part of the thesis defines narrative techniques and their function in general. The main intention is the analysis and the application of techniques used in Dracula. The thesis also compares techniques and narrative processes with the characteristics of the Victorian Era and the English literary tradition.
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The Environment of the Fictional Space of Wuthering Heights
ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora
This bachelor thesis introduces the author of the novel Wuthering Heights in the context of the literature of 19th century and focuses on Emily Brontë´s relation with the enviroment where she grew up and which formed the relationship with the place where her novel´s plot is set. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to cover romantic elements of the novel Wuthering Heights, to characterize the gothic novel´s influence on the overall picture of the enviroment and to find confrontations of realistic, gothic and romantic elements creating the setting of the novel.
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Being a gentleman in Dickens's Great Expectations
MIKULÁŠOVÁ, Magdalena
The goal of this work is to analyse the concept of gentlemanliness in Dickens's novel Great Expectations. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, we will describe the image of the society of Victorian England and the life conditions and prospects of people belonging to different social classes. After that, the status of a gentleman alongside with crucial parts of his life is depicted. In the second part, the thesis seeks to examine the work Great Expectations which is firstly compared with three other Dickens's novels. Afterwards, we follow the development of the main hero Pip, a poor orphan, who becomes a gentleman. The work then presents factors which caused the transformation of his character consisting of experience together with the novel's characters who affected his attitude towards life and human values. Finally, the author deals with the transformation of the main hero's view of the concept of gentlemanliness, the society, the importance of social position and life priorities.
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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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