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The Difficult American Dream and its Wake in Gatsby
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Viktorija Izabela Obrovac An exploration of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s contradictory references to the American Dream in his Jazz era work The Great Gatsby which possibly represents both the corrupted and the initial uncorrupted American Dream - in addition to analyzing the possible sustainability of the American Dream through consumerism and the use of mass marketing. In depth character analyses are used to demonstrate Fitzgerald’s theories as they relate to amassing wealth as a means to social success. This work also...
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The Effects of Reading Fiction on the Reduction of Prejudice: The Case of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels
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Doris Ercegović J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels left an enormous impact as one of the greatest successes in the history of literature. The wizarding world reminds the readers of our own, with different stigmatized groups and prejudices. According to a recent study (Vezzali et al. 2015), young people who have read the Harry Potter books, and identify with Harry as the main protagonist, have more positive attitudes towards the minority groups. Furthermore, many studies show that reading fiction can...
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The Effects of Verbal Anchoring on Emotional Responses of Young Adults
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Antonija Palčić Language is a tool for emotional expression and various research suggests that language is being used for persuading purposes when emotions are concerned. As such, language is being used in advertising to influence consumers and their opinions on advertised products. This thesis investigates the relationship between language and emotion in order to identify the way language influences emotional responses in young adults through using language methods such as verbal anchoring, positive and...
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The Evolution of the Female Lyric 'I' in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
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Tihana Micarakis This MA paper sets out to explore the evolution of the female lyric ‘I’, its role and importance in the selected poems by Sylvia Plath. It attempts to show how Plath’s lyric persona is in constant search of her own identity embodied in various roles she assumes: patient, daughter, wife, mother, and poet. The paper demonstrates how the images of mirror and mirroring, as well as doubling, play an important role in the lyric persona’s quest for true self. In Plath’s earlier poems we...
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The Evolution of the Haunted House
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Nikolina Šarac The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the changing forms that the haunted house trope has taken in different literary periods. Moreover, the focus will be on the influence of various time-dependent factors, such as changes in social changes and norms that have left their imprint on the haunted house subgenre. The selected works provide a valuable insight into different eras, and a suitable basis for analysis. The Castle of Otranto, regarded as the first gothic novel, can also be described...
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The Female Monstrous in Victorian Novels
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Katarina Jurković This paper discusses the question of female monstrous in Victorian novels based on three
novels. The main aim of research is to present the structure of society of that time and their
relationship towards women. Furthermore, by means of comparison of three novels, relevant
literature and analysis of the existing texts, the aim of research is to present the meaning of
monstrosity, to explain what does it mean and in what way is manifested and how, when
discussing a certain character. This...
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The Formation of Female Identity in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy
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Leona Žurić - Kovačev This final paper sets out to explore how Irish novelist Edna O’Brien represents Irish womanhood and the formation of female identity in her groundbreaking work, The Country Girls Trilogy. It examines how O’Brien’s characters develop and change in the course of the three novels against a backdrop of mid-century Ireland and its extremely rigid and conservative ways of life. The family and Irish Catholic Church are especially in the focus of the paper as these are seen as the forces which...
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The Formation of Female Identity in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy
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Leona Žurić - Kovačev This final paper sets out to explore how Irish novelist Edna O’Brien represents Irish womanhood and the formation of female identity in her groundbreaking work, The Country Girls Trilogy. It examines how O’Brien’s characters develop and change in the course of the three novels against a backdrop of mid-century Ireland and its extremely rigid and conservative ways of life. The family and Irish Catholic Church are especially in the focus of the paper as these are seen as the forces which...
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The Frontier Myth in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
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Ivana Barjašić The Frontier Myth has become an integral part of American culture and is constantly referenced through nostalgic depictions through which the myth has survived. Cormac McCarthy's novels seem to challenge the relationship between dominant frontier values and nationalistic conceptions of American history. The frontier is a concept open to question and uncertainty and constantly revised which is why the concept is applicable in different places, times and people. Through text analysis of...
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The Handmaid's Tale: Gender, Oppression and Dystopia
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Marta Ivanković The aim of this thesis was to analyse Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale and explore its prominent themes of gender, power and oppression. These themes will be read in the context of the dystopian setting of the novel. This study employs Foucault’s theoretical works for the chapters regarding power, hierarchy, and sexuality to emphasise the aim of Gilead. The main protagonists and their motives will also be analysed in the light of gender perspective for the part of female...
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The Horror Genre as a Social Critique
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Manuela Milas The horror genre has proven itself to be an astonishing vehicle for the implementation of criticism on certain issues that can be found within society and are related to different historical and political contexts. Because of its freedom in the portrayal of gruesome monsters and events, it has the possibility of providing this commentary in a more subtle way and executes its depiction on a completely different level than any other genre. Consequently, this paper deals with the analysis of...
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The Hunger Games: Creation of "Real" Reality
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Irena Prša This thesis focuses on literary representation of reality tv phenomenon in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, a dystopian young adult work of fiction. The trilogy is analyzed for themes that concern manipulation and representations of reality. Found themes are then incorporated into a theoretical framework of performance studies, with an anthropological observance of how they represent changing realities for individuals and societies, both in the analyzed novels and modern...
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