Frank Herbert's Heroines: Female Characters in Dune and its film adaptations

Bc. Klára Knězková

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This M.A. Thesis is focused on female characters and their roles in sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert. In the theoretical part, it summarises the basis of the study of the women in the literature and film and defines particular stereotypical female roles. Women characters from Dune are shown as fitting these sterotypes and counteracting them at the same time. Thus it is proven that their power and influence on the story itself and also on the other characters is much greater than it should be according to the stereotypes.

Keywords

Dune, Herbert, Frank Herbert, female, female characters, women, stereotypes, sci-fi, film, literature

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 22. 5. 2007

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 11. 6. 2007
• Vedúci: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Science

Master programme / odbor:
Mathematics / English Language and Literature