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Images of Jewish Characters in the History of English Literature
2017. urn:nbn:hr:162:447390
Ćuže, Matej
University of Zadar
Department of English

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Ćuže, M. (2017). Images of Jewish Characters in the History of English Literature (Undergraduate thesis). Zadar: University of Zadar. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:447390

Ćuže, Matej. "Images of Jewish Characters in the History of English Literature." Undergraduate thesis, University of Zadar, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:447390

Ćuže, Matej. "Images of Jewish Characters in the History of English Literature." Undergraduate thesis, University of Zadar, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:447390

Ćuže, M. (2017). 'Images of Jewish Characters in the History of English Literature', Undergraduate thesis, University of Zadar, accessed 02 April 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:447390

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M. Ćuže, "Images of Jewish Characters in the History of English Literature", Undergraduate thesis, University of Zadar, Zadar, 2017. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:447390

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TitleImages of Jewish Characters in the History of English Literature
Title (croatian)Prikazi židovskih likova u povijesti engleske književnosti
AuthorMatej Ćuže
MentorEstella Petrić Bajlo (mentor)
Committee memberVesna Ukić Košta (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberEstella Petrić Bajlo (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberMonika Bregović (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zadar
(Department of English)
Zadar
Defense date and country2017-09-26, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
From the Middle Ages to Victorian era, the image of Jewish characters in English literature was mainly based on social stereotypes. Jewish characters are represented as dehumanised social creatures whose individual, personal traits border on madness and monstrosity. In that way literary fiction, together with the society creates images of the Jews which reveal processes of othering. Chaucer was the first author who used social stereotypes in creation of the villainous Jewish characters in his... More short story The Prioress’s Tale which was published in his collection The Canterbury Tales. The trend continued in Renaissance. Shakespeare’s character Shylock was one of the most famous Jewish villains in the world of literature. His main characteristics were avarice, slyness, greed and hatred towards Christians. His character was even included in the Nazi propaganda against the Jewish people in World War II. Marlowe’s character Barabas was the same as Shylock. Barabas’s name is important because of the connection with the Bible and the famous Jewish murderer. Victorian era brought the first positive Jewish character, Riah. His characteristics separated him from the other Jewish characters, such as altruism, sincerity and honesty. Riah is the character in the novel Our Mutual Friend, written by Dickens. The same author wrote the novel Oliver Twist. One of the main characters in the novel was Fagin. Fagin was similar to Shakespeare’s Shylock. His doings and relations with other people proved that Jewish stereotypes were actual in the Victorian era as well. A comparative reading of Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale and Dickens’s Oliver Twist proved that images of Jewish characters remained the same for five hundred years. The same jobs, actions and behaviour labelled Jewish characters from Middle Ages to Victorian era. Chaucer’s Jewish characters were prototypes for other Jewish characters in English literature including Dickens’s character Fagin, who is considered the most stereotypical Jewish character in the history of English literature. Less
Abstract (croatian)
Od srednjeg vijeka do Viktorijanskog doba, prikaz likova Židova u engleskoj književnosti bazirao se na stereotipima. Likovi Židova prikazani su kao dehumanizirana društvena bića čija individualna svojstva graniče s ludosti i monstruoznosti. Na taj način književna fikcija zajedno s društvom stvaraju prikaz Židova koji otkriva procese drugotnosti. Chaucer je bio prvi autor koji je iskoristio društvene stereotipe u stvaranju zločinačkih židovskih likova u svojoj kratkoj priči The Prioress’s... More Tale koja je objavljena u njegovoj kolekciji The Canterbury Tales. Trend se nastavio u Renesansi. Shakespeareov lik Shylock bio je jedan od najpoznatijih židovskih zlikovaca u književnom svijetu. Njegove glavne karakteristike bile su škrtost, prepredenost, pohlepa i mržnja upućena prema kršćanima. Njegov lik bio je čak dio nacističke propagande protiv Židova u Drugom svjetskom ratu. Baraba, lik kojeg je stvorio Marlowe, bio je poput Shylocka. Barabino ime je bitno zbog poveznice s Biblijom i poznatim židovskim ubojicom. U Viktorijanskom dobu pojavio se prvi pozitivan židovski lik, Riah. Njegove karakteristike bile su suprotne onima koji su imali ostali likovi Židova poput iskrenosti, altruizma i poštenja. Riah je lik iz romana Our Mutual Friend kojeg je napisao Dickens. Isti autor napisao je roman Oliver Twist. Jedan od glavnih likova u romanu bio je Fagin. Fagin je bio sličan Shakespeareovom Shylocku. Njegova djela i odnosi s drugim ljudima dokazala su da su stereotipi o Židovima bili aktualni i u Viktorijanskom dobu. Usporedno čitanje Chaucerove priče The Prioress’s Tale i Dickensovog romana Oliver Twist dokazalo je da su prikazi likova Židova ostali isti kroz petsto godina. Isti poslovi, postupci i ponašanje etiketirali su likove Židova od Srednjeg vijeka do Viktorijanskog doba. Chaucerovi likovi Židova bili su prototipi za ostale likove Židova u engleskoj književnosti uključujući Dickensovog lika Fagina koji se smatra jednim od najstereotipnijih likova Židova u povijesti engleske književnosti. Less
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Keywords (croatian)
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:162:447390
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
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