dc.contributor.author | Kubresli, Cathérina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-29T09:52:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-29T09:52:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-29 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2077/73710 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract: Through the years, many characters in The Lord of the Rings have been analysed in
different ways. Éowyn is no exception. Her character has often been associated with the
shield-maidens and Valkyries existing in Nordic Germanic and Anglo-Saxon literatures. This
essay, however, breaks with this tradition. Instead, the focus of this research lies on Éowyn´s
classical origins found in Virgil´s Dido of Carthage from his epic poem The Aeneid. By
employing Ian Watt´s The Rise of the Novel and Georg Lukács´ The Theory of the Novel, I
will interpret Éowyn as a novelistic character in possession of psychological depth, searching
for meaning. The results of this comparison show that Éowyn has her origins in Dido, but she
liberates herself from Carthage´s queen partly because she is different from her own Rohirric
society and partly because she is a highly psychological character who reaches self recognitions several times during the events of the War of the Ring. Although inspired by
Dido in origin, the fact that Éowyn has her roots in Classical literature enables the reader
successively to distinguish her novelistic nature during the course of events in The Lord of the
Rings. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPL 2020-074 | en |
dc.subject | Éowyn, Tolkien, Dido, Virgil, Aragorn, Aeneas, fate, epic society, psychology, self-recognition | en |
dc.title | We Are Very Similar, yet We Are Very Different: J.R.R Tolkien´s Éowyn of Rohan´s Vergilian Origins and Her Search for Meaning | en |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.setspec.uppsok | HumanitiesTheology | |
dc.type.uppsok | H2 | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatures | eng |
dc.contributor.department | Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer | swe |
dc.type.degree | Student essay | |