Cílem této bakalářské práce je porovnat dvě hlavní hrdinky ženských autorek Louisy May Alcottové a Lucy Maud Montgomeryové, konkrétně Jo Marchovou a Anne Shirleyovou. První, teoretická část, je zaměřena především na obecné postavení žen a spisovatelek konce 19. století a na výzvy, kterým musely čelit. Praktická část se pak zabývá samotným srovnáním hlavních postav a jejich jedinečnou touhou změnit tradiční normy tehdejší doby. Mezi klíčová témata patří kreativní představivost, vztah k mužům, cesta za vysněným povoláním a hledání identity.
Annotation in English
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to compare two female protagonists of Louisa May Alcott and Lucy Maud Montgomery, namely Jo March and Anne Shirley. The first, theoretical part, focuses mainly on the general position of women and women writers in the late 19th century and the challenges they had to face. The practical part then deals with the actual comparison of the main characters and their unique desire to change the traditional norms of the time. Their creative imaginations, their relationships with both men and other women are discussed, and their journey towards their dream jobs is detailed with the focus on finding their identity.
Keywords
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Anne, Jo, rodina, March family, Ženská identita, spisovatelka, učitelka, role žen, literatura, Severní Amerika, představivost, dívky, ženy, manželství, vzdělání, autobiografie, rodina
Keywords in English
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Anne, Jo, family, female identity, writer, teacher, role of women, literature, North America, imagination, girls, women, marriage, education, autobiography, family
Length of the covering note
45 s. (84 801 znaků)
Language
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Annotation
Cílem této bakalářské práce je porovnat dvě hlavní hrdinky ženských autorek Louisy May Alcottové a Lucy Maud Montgomeryové, konkrétně Jo Marchovou a Anne Shirleyovou. První, teoretická část, je zaměřena především na obecné postavení žen a spisovatelek konce 19. století a na výzvy, kterým musely čelit. Praktická část se pak zabývá samotným srovnáním hlavních postav a jejich jedinečnou touhou změnit tradiční normy tehdejší doby. Mezi klíčová témata patří kreativní představivost, vztah k mužům, cesta za vysněným povoláním a hledání identity.
Annotation in English
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to compare two female protagonists of Louisa May Alcott and Lucy Maud Montgomery, namely Jo March and Anne Shirley. The first, theoretical part, focuses mainly on the general position of women and women writers in the late 19th century and the challenges they had to face. The practical part then deals with the actual comparison of the main characters and their unique desire to change the traditional norms of the time. Their creative imaginations, their relationships with both men and other women are discussed, and their journey towards their dream jobs is detailed with the focus on finding their identity.
Keywords
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Anne, Jo, rodina, March family, Ženská identita, spisovatelka, učitelka, role žen, literatura, Severní Amerika, představivost, dívky, ženy, manželství, vzdělání, autobiografie, rodina
Keywords in English
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Anne, Jo, family, female identity, writer, teacher, role of women, literature, North America, imagination, girls, women, marriage, education, autobiography, family
Research Plan
This thesis will examine the description of Louisa Marie Alcott's Little Women and Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables focusing on the life of emarging female writers and the obstacles they face. It explores various kinds of perspectives from which they were or were not accepted in the society in the late 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The research will focus primarily on the female's characters's desire to become writers and teachers and it will compare the female protagonists from the novel with the traditional women and their role in the society and the authors's lives themselves. Finally, I will look at the secondary factors that influenced the women to stand out among their peers.
Research Plan
This thesis will examine the description of Louisa Marie Alcott's Little Women and Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables focusing on the life of emarging female writers and the obstacles they face. It explores various kinds of perspectives from which they were or were not accepted in the society in the late 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The research will focus primarily on the female's characters's desire to become writers and teachers and it will compare the female protagonists from the novel with the traditional women and their role in the society and the authors's lives themselves. Finally, I will look at the secondary factors that influenced the women to stand out among their peers.
Recommended resources
Alcott, Louisa May. 2004. Little women. New York: Signet Classic.
Bradford, Gamaliel. "Portrait of Louisa May Alcott." The North American Review 209, no. 760 (1919): 391-403
Dalke, Anne. "The House-Band": The Education of Men in Little Women." College English 47, no. 6 (1985): 571-78
Foote, Stephanie. "Resentful "Little Women": Gender and Class Feeling in Louisa May Alcott." College Literature 32, no. 1 (2005): 63-85
Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "On Female Identity and Writing by Women." Critical Inquiry 8, no. 2 (1981): 347-61.
Henderson, Jennifer. "At Normal School: Seton, Montgomery, and the New Education." In Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature, edited by Sugars Cynthia, 461-86. Ottawa, Ont. Canada: University of Ottawa Press, 2004
Lefebvre, Benjamin, ed. The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2013
McQuillan, Julia, and Julie Pfeiffer. "Why Anne Makes Us Dizzy: Reading "Anne of Green Gables" from a Gender Perspective." Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 34, no. 2 (2001): 17-32.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud. 2018. Anne of Green Gables. Wordsworth Collector’s Editions. Ware, England: Wordsworth Editions.
Nelson, Michael C. "Writing during Wartime: Gender and Literacy in the American Civil War." Journal of American Studies 31, no. 1 (1997): 43-68
Recommended resources
Alcott, Louisa May. 2004. Little women. New York: Signet Classic.
Bradford, Gamaliel. "Portrait of Louisa May Alcott." The North American Review 209, no. 760 (1919): 391-403
Dalke, Anne. "The House-Band": The Education of Men in Little Women." College English 47, no. 6 (1985): 571-78
Foote, Stephanie. "Resentful "Little Women": Gender and Class Feeling in Louisa May Alcott." College Literature 32, no. 1 (2005): 63-85
Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "On Female Identity and Writing by Women." Critical Inquiry 8, no. 2 (1981): 347-61.
Henderson, Jennifer. "At Normal School: Seton, Montgomery, and the New Education." In Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature, edited by Sugars Cynthia, 461-86. Ottawa, Ont. Canada: University of Ottawa Press, 2004
Lefebvre, Benjamin, ed. The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2013
McQuillan, Julia, and Julie Pfeiffer. "Why Anne Makes Us Dizzy: Reading "Anne of Green Gables" from a Gender Perspective." Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 34, no. 2 (2001): 17-32.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud. 2018. Anne of Green Gables. Wordsworth Collector’s Editions. Ware, England: Wordsworth Editions.
Nelson, Michael C. "Writing during Wartime: Gender and Literacy in the American Civil War." Journal of American Studies 31, no. 1 (1997): 43-68