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Representing Courtship and Marriage in the English Novel, 1780-1860
Vomáčková, Lenka ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis focuses on the motifs of courtship and marriage as experienced by the female characters in the novels published from the end of the 18th century till the second half of the 19th century. These novels include Evelina (1778), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Eyre (1847) and The Mill on the Floss (1860). As all these novels are written by female authors, the thesis provides a unique female perspective of the issue. The chosen texts deal with the motifs of courtship and marriage, play with the conventional discourse, and at the same time challenge the established perception of the role of a woman in the process of courting. Besides discussing the novels, I explore also the way the themes of courtship and marriage are presented in the original 18th and 19th century literature. For this purpose, I scrutinized various conduct books and essays of the period. The first chapter of the thesis is introductory and explains the main ideas and terms used in the thesis. The second chapter focuses on the social background the heroine comes from - her family, character and education. Hence, the role of the family is discussed in reference to the process of courtship. Great attention is given primarily to the role of a father as a possible social guardian and the model of a future husband. The third...
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The world of lost innocence in William Golding's novels
Vomáčková, Lenka ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee)
This thesis focuses on William Golding and his depiction of humanity in his three novels - Lord of the Flies, Pincher Martin and Free Fall. Primarily, I am interested in the way his characters undertake their journey to self-knowledge and thus establish their own identity. This process of self-exploring is then described in terms of innocence, experience, guilt, spirituality and darkness. By scrutinising three levels of these novels - moral, social and religious (mystical) - I am going to establish certain patterns of Golding's philosophy, and thus reconstruct his view of mankind. As a result, I will present Golding as a moralist, sociologist and mystic. Golding himself reveals that he is interested in conveying his message concerning these issues to readers. In his collection of essays called A Moving Target he writes: "We, the storytellers, must produce a more bumbling truth and it has to be sought for in that extended cooperation that must go on between the novelist and his reader."1 Therefore, Golding puts his characters in dangerous, psychologically and physically extreme situations to make them confront their selves and describe their moral, social and religious attitudes. Virginia Tiger remarks on this technique: "A direct confrontation is made to occur between a character's centre (roughly...
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Merger of companies (Domestic and Cross-border), accounting treatment
Fialová, Michala ; Vomáčková, Hana (advisor) ; Vomáčková, Lenka (referee)
The Graduation Theses is targeted at mergers of business Companies and its accounting aspects. The Theses solve mergers from the business - legal point of view (regulating in Act. No. 125/2008 Coll, Transformation of Business Companies and Cooperatives), and also from accounting point of view (from IAS/IFRS) as well from the czech accounting law Accounting Act, Regulation 500/2002 Coll, CAS). A separate chapter is devoted to practical real case of a merger of two limited liability companies.
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