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The portrayal of class in Charles Dickens' works
RAISOVÁ, Eliška
Wealth and social status in Victorian England had a great influence on perceiving a person in nearly all directions. Charles Dickens grew up in this time period as a member of the lower class of people on which this perception of society had a huge impact. Thanks to his father's debts, he lived, together with his family, for quite a long time in a debtor's prison, and he lacked a sufficient amount of education because of his mother. In essence, he was never able to forgive them, which got portrayed, as well as many other factors, in his later works. The aim of my bachelor's degree thesis is a study of the depiction of social classes in Dickens' writings in the context of his life and period, whose opinions influenced his literary stories. With the help of the characters from his books, who represent each social class, I will try to picture Charles' conception and inclusion of the topics of social inequality in his work.
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Dickens's characters
ČERNOŠKOVÁ, Barbora
This thesis deals with the characters in the chosen novels of Charles Dickens. Its aim is to show that there are some typical characters and certain archetypes that repeatedly appear in Dickens's books, such as poor children draped in a destiny they cannot resist. These characters are analyzed based on Dickens's life because it is a major source of his inspiration. The first part of the thesis deals with the period in which the novels take place, the language of the characters that is often used to enliven them, and with social questions, such as life in so-called slums or the different roles of men and women in society. The second part consists of the typology itself with the focus on children characters which played an important part in Dickens's work. It also examines female characters, loyal servants, poor good guys, or criminals.
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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 Czech translations of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist: A comparison of lexical means
Mitlenerová, Silvie ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Jindra, Miroslav (referee)
This B. A. thesis attempts to compare the most important Czech translations of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. The considered translations are the one by Emanuel Tilsch and Emanuela Tilschová (1966), the one by Arno Kraus (1952) and the one by Ladislav Vymětal (1930). In some cases, Božena Šimková's translation (1908) and the translation by Mary Dolejší (1926) are considered among others as well. The main criteria are lexical and stylistic means used by the characters of various social groups in their speech. The thesis also analyzes how the translators dealt with various registers of the Czech language from the highest, archaic ones to the substandard, dialectical and even argotic levels. At the end of the thesis, a question is raised to what extent the main translations in consideration have followed the general development of the Czech translation arts. Another question sorts out if time is already up for a new translation of Oliver Twist, or if the last Czech version still suits its readers properly.
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Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, the English and American Perspective on Child Heroes Portrayal
MACKOVÁ, Vanda
This diploma thesis deals with the portrayal of child heroes in English and American literature, in works of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. The chosen novels are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These novels are analysed in the themes of child labour and poverty, racism, religion, the view of the world by children in contrast to the adult perspective, upbringing and education. The last chapter deals with the humour of both novelists. Thus the emphasis is put on the social aspect of the literary output of Dickens and Twain. The main aim of the thesis is to depict these child heroes and their acting in the literature of the 19th century, and to reflect the life experience of both authors.
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Victorian London through the Perspective of Charles Dickens
HOMZOVÁ, Markéta
The aim of the thesis is the initial characteristics of Charles Dickens' personality in the context of Victorian literature focusing later on social matters of the 19th century England and its reflection in the works of the author. The core of the thesis concentrates on Dickens´s description of London in the contrast with rural environment; and prospectively it may generalize Dickens' methods in description of environment and landscape based on the principles of romantic and realistic novels.
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Charles Dickens and the Portrait of Victorian England
ČÁSENSKÁ, Petra
The diploma thesis presents Charles Dickens not only as one of the most popular Victorian writers but it also concentrates on Dickens´ description and characterization of a place and surroundings in the novels Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. In the introductory part the thesis characterizes Victorian England and its social and cultural aspects. The core of the thesis is Dickens´ portrayal of London in contrast with the country environment in the selected novels. The diploma thesis tries to express Dickens´ literary evolution from the point of view of the description of the surroundings and landscape; alternatively it traces romantic features of his writings.
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