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The supervillains and their motivations in Marvel Cinematic Universe movies
Navrátil, David ; Hrdina, Matouš (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the villains' depiction in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. By examining the first 20 movies of the series, I try to find out how are the villains depicted in the MCU movies and what are their motivations. This is achieved through combination of studying relevant literature that deals with the topic, qualitative content analysis of the movies and narrative analysis, which is based on the monomyth structure of Joseph Campbell and its reinterpretation for movies and television by Christopher Vogler. In this thesis I first shortly describe the history of superhero movie as a whole and the specifics of the shared Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the theoretical part I describe Campbell's and Vogler's narrative structure. Then I describe the methodology, which I then use to describe the findings and their interpretations. In this part I examine the villains' motivations, which are divided into several categories, and examine their story arcs through the prism of the Hero's journey structure. Here it is shown that the villains in the MCU movies are depicted in an overwhelmingly Manichean way. In the discussion, I describe possible issues with my research and suggest potential directions of further research. In the conclusion, I then summarize the findings of both the theoretical...
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Hero's Journey in Fantastic Literature of 20th Century
ČMEJRKOVÁ, Tereza
The primary objective of this Diploma thesis is the introduction of a theory called the Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell and the Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock and a consequential attempt to apply obtained theoretical findings of these theories on hero myths on the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling and the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The secondary objective of this thesis is the analysis of archetype occurrence in the above mentioned literary works. The second part of the thesis focuses on hero myths application on two selected film adaptations of comic books from the Marvel studios and a Disney fairy tale.
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Sacrifice and initiation in the myths of Ódinn
Kozák, Jan ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Antalík, Dalibor (referee) ; Starý, Jiří (referee)
This dissertation deals with the interpretation of four myths from early medieval Scandinavia, in which the main role is played by the god Óðinn. All four myths narrate how he achieved a state of permanent increase of his numinous knowledge. Based on the fact that the outcome of all of the narratives is the acquisition of the Mead of Poetry (or its equivalent), they can be percieved as "four reports on the same event". The analysis of myths itself has been executed in two steps: firstly the separate inquiry of the two more central myths and introduction of the other two followed by thorough analysis of the four together. All four myths demonstrate to a certain degree a presence of motifs and structures associated with the religious phenomena of sacrifice and initiation. By the means of said analysis the study reviews the systematic relations of the sacrificial and initiatory structures and postulates a common core which is subsequently named "monomyth".
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La Malinche
Portychová, Michaela ; Kostičová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Lyčka, Milan (referee)
Bordering between religious studies and history, this thesis devotes to la Malinche, who was a Native Mexican woman who lived during the conquest of America. She was a translator of Cortés's troops and as such participated in the subjugation of the Aztec empire. In present day Mexico, the figure of la Malinche became a powerful symbol with clear religious connotations. This paper explores the beginnings of her legend, critically reviewing available primary sources with regards to their historical accuracy and thoroughly searching them for deeper mythological meanings and structures. These comprise of two main categories: European and Aztec. As for the European sources, the thesis thoroughly explores the development of la Malinche's story and its re-telling as an independent myth in the works of European chroniclers. Subsequently, the story is shown as closely resembling Joseph Campbell's hero monomyth. Regarding la Malinche's image in Aztec sources, her different appearances intertwine with certain motifs from the original Aztec religion. These primary versions of her story strongly influenced the current version of la Malinche's personality and image. The paper concludes that la Malinche was never purely a historic figure. In her case, it is impossible to separate clearly myth from fact, as her...
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Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling
Pavlíček, Milan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling covers the six stories of the Star Wars series in relation to Emil Volek's story model whose terminology and story typology is used to describe how the stories influence one another, which is to say, how the stories influence the reception of the other stories in the series and how the reception has changed over time. The diploma thesis also examines how myth is being applied to Star Wars and reflects whether such connection is justified. Both Star Wars and myth are given a definition and the relationship between the series and Joseph Campbell's monomyth, a concept frequently connected to Star Wars, is explored. The final part of the text describes narrative elements and processes participating in the creation of the original trilogy. An appendix covers various issues in regard to the translation of the series into Czech and briefly evaluates existing translations.
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